CHINA AND ICELAND SIGN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, right, is shown the way by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang after inspecting a guard of honor during a welcome ceremony outside the…
Government and politics
ISRAEL AT 65: SUCCESS STILL PLAGUED BY UNCERTAINTY
By ARON HELLER An Israeli soldiers prepares to place an Israeli flag with a black ribbon and flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery…
HEZBOLLAH-BACKED LEBANESE SHIITES FIGHT IN SYRIA
By BASSEM MROUE In this Friday, April 12, 2013 photo, members of the Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees stand guard at the Lebanon-Syria border, near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr,…
OLD GUARD SEES THREAT IN YOUTHFUL NJ URBAN INFLUX
By KATIE ZEZIMA FILE – In this Thursday, July 28, 2011 file photo, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy speaks during a public meeting regarding the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and…
KERRY HOPES NEXT PALESTINIAN PM CAN WORK WITH US
By BRADLEY KLAPPER FILE – In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank…
VENEZUELA’S CHOICE: CHAVEZ HEIR OR FRESH START
By FRANK BAJAK and ALEXANDRA OLSON Venezuela’s interim President Nicolas Maduro attends a ceremony marking the Day of the National Revolutionary Militia, also called Bolivarian militias, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday,…
RUSSIA BANS 18 AMERICANS AFTER SIMILAR US MOVE
By JIM HEINTZ FILE – In this Nov. 30, 2009 file photo, Nataliya Magnitskaya holds a portrait of her son, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in jail,…
POPE TAPS CARDINALS TO ADVISE ON GOVERNING, REFORM
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this April 7, 2013 file photo Pope Francis waves to faithful upon his arrival for his installation Mass at the St. John in Lateran…