EXIT POLLS: AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENT WINS 3RD TERM
By AIDA SULTANOVA Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev leaves a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its…
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YELLEN IS OBAMA CHOICE TO SUCCEED BERNANKE AT FED
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and JIM KUHNHENN FILE – In this Monday, June 3, 2013, file photo, Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,…
HUNGARIAN WINGSUIT FLYER DIES DURING CHINA JUMP
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 photo, Hungarian wingsuit flier Viktor Kovats jumps off a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie in south China’s Hunan province. Kovats…
PAKISTAN’S FORMER PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF GETS BAIL
By ASIF SHAHZAD FILE — In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, Pakistan’s former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf addresses his party supporters at his house in Islamabad,…
TRIAL DATE FOR MORSI STOKES EGYPT POLITICAL DRAMA
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, then Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center, speaks with Minister of Defense,…
CHEMICAL WATCHDOG CHIEF: 20 SYRIAN SITES TO CHECK
By MIKE CORDER Director General Ahmet Uzumcu of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, gives an update on the the chemical watchdog’s verification and destruction mission in…
AP INTERVIEW: IRAN SPEAKER TOUTS SURPLUS URANIUM
By JOHN HEILPRIN Iran’s Parliament speaker Ali Larijani answers a question during a press conference on the sidelines of the 129th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in Geneva, Switzerland,…
US EXPECTED TO SLASH AID TO EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
By MATTHEW LEE In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 photo, Egyptians crowd a shopping at a market in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s capital has long been proud of its nickname, “Mother…