CYPRUS HAS 4 DAYS TO FIND BAILOUT SOLUTION
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and ELENA BECATOROS People queue at an ATM outside a closed Laiki Bank branch in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, March 21, 2013. The European Central Bank says…
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KURDISH REBEL LEADER CALLS FOR CEASE-FIRE
By MUCAHIT CEYLAN and SUZAN FRASER FILE -In this July 24, 2012 file photo, honour guard soldiers carry the flag-covered coffin of Ahmet Caglar, one of four soldiers killed in…
RUSSIA SEARCHES HUNDREDS OF RIGHTS GROUPS, NGOS
By MAX SEDDON Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on sports issues in Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Putin is touring…
OBAMA SAYS HE’S NOT GIVING UP ON MIDEAST PEACE
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the…
FIRST LADY BEARS EASTER GIFTS TO MILITARY FAMILIES
By STACY A. ANDERSON First Lady Michelle Obama looks at four-week-old Shawn Wittaker as he is held by his mother Amanda Wittaker during a visit to the Fisher House, located…
EX-MAYOR CONVICTED IN BELL, CALIF., CASE
By JOHN ROGERS FILE – This Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, former Bell, Calif., city officials appear for a massive city corruption trial in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Verdicts…
VENEZUELA HALTS COMMUNICATION WITH US DIPLOMAT
By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elias Jaua speaks during a ceremony to honor two Venezuelan diplomats expelled from Washington after Venezuela kicked out two U.S. military attaches, for allegedly…
MEDICAL MARIJUANA FACILITY PARTNERS WITH RAPPER
Tony Butler, 28, of Flint, poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in his store “The Green Oasis”, a medical marijuana dispensary, in Otisville, Mich. The Michigan medical…