DEMOCRATS FACE DIVIDE OVER A STRIKE ON SYRIA
By KEN THOMAS FILE – This this Oct. 29, 2010, file photo shows Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, in Dubuque, Iowa. President Barack Obama’s pursuit of a military strike in Syria…
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AUSTRALIAN GOV’T FACES CARBON TAX BACKLASH AT POLL
By KRISTEN GELINEAU and ROD McGUIRK Agnes Lee, 52, an IT consultant, reads a paper while having a coffee in Sydney, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. The ruling Labor Party’s probable…
RI GOV. LINCOLN CHAFEE WON’T RUN FOR 2ND TERM
By MICHELLE R. SMITH Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee speaks to media outside a department of motor vehicles office Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in Cranston, R.I. Chafee said he is…
NEW MALI PRESIDENT KEITA SWORN INTO OFFICE
By BABA AHMED Mali’s new president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, is sworn in at an official ceremony in Bamako, Mali, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Keita took the oath of office Wednesday,…
NYC MAYOR HOPEFULS MARCH IN WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Dressed in costume, Kelva Joseph makes her way along Eastern Parkway in the Brooklyn borough of New York during the West Indian Day Parade, Monday, Sept. 2,…
WHERE’S RUDY? GIULIANI IS SCARCE IN MAYOR’S RACE
By JONATHAN LEMIRE FILE – In this Aug. 9, 2103 file photo, New York City Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota participates in televised debate with other candidates, at WABC-TV studios…
EGYPT’S MORSI TO BE TRIED FOR INCITING VIOLENCE
By SARAH EL DEEB A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi chants slogans against Egyptian Army during a march following Friday Muslim prayers at Nasser City in Cairo, Egypt,…
MERKEL, RIVAL FACE OFF IN GERMAN ELECTION DEBATE
A man on a bicycle passes election posters, showing the two top candidates for next German chancellor at a street in Duisburg, western Germany, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Peer Steinbrueck…