SHUTDOWN IMPACT: DEFENSE WORKERS RETURN TO WORK
Protestors hold signs during a during an event with the Democratic Progressive Caucus and furloughed federal employees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, as the budget battle…
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TURKEY UNVEILS REFORMS, SOME AIMED AT KURDS
By DESMOND BUTLER and SUZAN FRASER FILE – In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan is…
AT U OF ALA., LEADERS TREAD LIGHTLY ON SEGREGATION
By JAY REEVES In this Sept. 18, 2013, photo, University of Alabama President Judy Bonner, right, shakes hands with student Isaac Bell of Montgomery, Ala., following a march by faculty…
EX-STUDENT LEADERS: END GREEK SEGREGATION AT ALA.
By JAY REEVES Alabama State University spokesman Ken Mullinax poses at the school in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 with a copy of an ad he and 17 other…
LA. GOVERNOR DEMANDS FEDS DROP SUIT AGAINST STATE
By PHILIP ELLIOTT In this Aug. 30, 2013, photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando. Jindal on Wednesday,…
PEOPLE MARCH AGAINST GREEK SEGREGATION AT ALABAMA
By JAY REEVES In this Aug. 17, 2013 photo, female students at the University of Alabama prepare to run from Bryant-Denny Stadium to their new sorority houses after receiving their…
GREECE: SCHOOLS SHUT, PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Striking teachers protest in Thessaloniki on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Thousands of school teachers and other civil servants held an afternoon demonstration to demand…
13-YR-OLD INDIAN GIRL BEGINS MICROBIOLOGY MASTER’S
By BISWAJEET BANERJEE In this Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013 photo, Sushma Verma, 13, attends a ceremony organized by Sulabh International Social Service Organization to recognize her as “India’s Child Prodigy”…