HOW THE SYRIA PLAN BROKE THROUGH, JUST IN TIME
By CALVIN WOODWARD FILE – In this Sept. 5, 2013 pool-file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during arrivals for the G-20 summit at the…
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CATALANS FORM HUGE HUMAN CHAIN FOR INDEPENDENCE
By JOSEPH WILSON People form a human chain in Barcelona, Spain Wednesday Sept. 11, 2013. Several hundred thousand people demanding an independent Catalonia have joined hands to form a 400-kilometer…
UN: ONE-THIRD OF FOOD WORLDWIDE GETS WASTED
FILE – This June 5, 2013 file photo shows discarded rotis, or Indian bread, along the river bank as an Indian man cleans clothes in the polluted Sabarmati River in…
RUSSIA MAY UP IRAN ARMS SALES IF US STRIKES SYRIA
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 file photo, Russian air defense missile systems are displayed at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky…
AUTOMAKERS BET ON ALTERNATIVE-FUEL CARS FOR FUTURE
By DAVID McHUGH BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer gets out of the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car during its world premiere at the first press day of the 65th Frankfurt…
ROMANIANS CHARGED WITH ART THEFT TO PLEAD GUILTY
Eugen Darie, center, and Alexandru Bitu, right, two suspects charged with stealing paintings from a Dutch museum, enter a court building for a hearing in their trial in Bucharest, Romania,…
FINANCIAL CRISIS DRIVES UP GREEK SUICIDE RATE
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Art teachers protest against the government austerity measure that threaten their jobs, outside the Greek parliament in central Athens, on Friday, Sept, 6, 2013. The conservative-led government…
SYRIA ACCEPTS WEAPONS PLAN, STRIKE MOMENTUM EASES
By RYAN LUCAS and LORI HINNANT Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks to the media in Moscow, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. Syria’s foreign minister said his country welcomes Russia’s proposal…