TECH GIANTS CALL FOR CONTROLS ON GOV’T SNOOPING
By DANICA KIRKA FILE – In this undated file photo made available by Google, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the computer servers into a cooling unit to be…
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RIOT POLICE DEPLOY NEAR PROTEST SITES IN KIEV
By JIM HEINTZ and YURAS KARMANAU A Pro-European Union activist tries to give food to riot police officers preparing to block the Independence Square in KIev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9,…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION GETS LESSONS IN NEGOTIATING
By MIKE CORDER FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes…
ANTI-GOVT PROTESTERS IN KIEV TOPPLE LENIN STATUE
Pro-European Union activists gather around a huge poster of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, bottom, during a rally in the Independence Square in KIev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 8,…
RUSSIA: CRASHED PILOT MAY HAVE HAD FAKE LICENSE
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this Nov. 17, 2013, file photo provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, firefighters and rescuers work at the crash site of a Russian passenger…
UK GOVERNMENT PREDICTING SURPLUS BY DECADE’S END
By DANICA KIRKA In this still taken from video, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivers his autumn statement to MPs in the House of Commons, central London, Thursday…
NEARLY 100 DEAD IN CAR BEFORE FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE
By KRISTA LARSON Shrouded bodies lay in a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Over…
UN OKS MILITARY ACTION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
By EDITH M. LEDERER Christian children from the village of Bouebou, some 40 kms (30 miles) North of Bangui, Central African Republic, are packed in the trunk of a taxi…