IN NORTHERN PUSH, SYRIAN TROOPS REOPEN KEY ROAD
By BASSEM MROUE In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, in Damascus,…
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DIVERS RECOVER 17 MORE BODIES, DEATH TOLL HITS 211
By ANDREA ROSA Migrants wait to board a ferry boat from the port of Lampedusa, for Sicily, southern Italy, where they will be sent to other temporary camps based on…
US FORCES CONDUCT TWIN RAIDS IN LIBYA, SOMALIA
By KIMBERLY DOZIER, ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO This image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi. Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias…
32 MORE MIGRANT BODIES RECOVERED IN ITALY
By LUCA BRUNO Italian soldiers carry body bags at the Lampedusa island, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Authorities say divers have recovered new bodies from a fiery shipwreck of a…
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT WINS WAGES CASE VS SPACE AGENCY
FILE – In this Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 file photo Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov shortly after landing in a Soyuz space capsule near Arkalyk, in Kazakhstan. A Moscow regional court…
RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN LIBYA EVACUATED AFTER ATTACK
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Map locates Tripoli, Libya, where where an armed mob broke into the Russian embassy; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm; MOSCOW (AP) — Russia…
GREEK FAR-RIGHT LEADER IMPRISONED PENDING TRIAL
Lawmaker of extremist right-wing Golden Dawn Christos Pappas, center, who the prosecution has described as the party’s second in command, is escorted by anti-terror police to appear in court for…
MIGRANT SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, KILLING 94
By NICOLE WINFIELD Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward…