KIEV WARNS OF TERRORISM THREAT AMID PROTESTS
Demonstrators angered by more than two months of anti-government protests in Kiev gather on Khreschatyk street in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. Thousands of people angered by months of…
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SYRIA BEGINS EVACUATING CIVILIANS TRAPPED IN HOMS
By BASSEM MROUE In this video image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens sit aboard a bus after they evacuated the besieged rebel-held neighborhood of of…
VIOLENT PROTESTS SPREAD THROUGHOUT BOSNIA
By AMEL EMRIC A Bosnian protester walks by a local government building during protests, in Bosnian town of Tuzla, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Bosnian protesters set ablaze the local…
SCIENTISTS FIND 800,000-YEAR-OLD FOOTPRINTS IN UK
By JILL LAWLESS Undated handout photo issued by the British Museum Friday Feb. 7, 2014 of some of the human footprints, thought to be more than 800,000 years old, found…
ACTIVISTS: SYRIAN REBELS FREE HUNDREDS FROM PRISON
Associated Press In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge…
TURKISH INTERNET RESTRICTIONS RAISE MORE CONCERNS
By SUZAN FRASER In this picture taken late Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, Oktay Vural, a leading deputy from the opposition Nationalist Action Party, MHP, holds up a placard during a…
UN COMMITTEE BLASTS VATICAN ON SEX AB– USE, ABORTION
By NICOLE WINFIELD Kirsten Sandberg, center, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks to committee members Maria Herczog, right, and Benyam Mezmur during…
HERO OR TRAITOR? POPE’S AIDE IN POLISH CONTROVERSY
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA FILE – In this May 4, 1996 file photo, Pope John Paul II, right, is helped by his personal secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, as he arrives in Como,…