ISRAELI LABOR BILL FOR SETTLERS SPARKS UPROAR
By TIA GOLDENBERG and ARON HELLER FILE – In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 file photo Jewish settlers are seen in the unauthorized West Bank Jewish settlement of Migron. At…
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AUSTRALIA’S NEW GOV’T VOWS TO SCRAP CARBON TAX
By ROD McGUIRK Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott meets with Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson, in Sydney Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. A new government prepared to take control of Australia on…
SYRIA, BUDGET AND DEBT TOP CONGRESSIONAL AGENDA
By ANDREW TAYLOR and DONNA CASSATA The Capitol is seen in Washington, early Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, as Congress considers President Barack Obama’s request for authorization of military intervention in…
CONSERVATIVES SWEEP TO AUSTRALIA ELECTION VICTORY
By ROD McGUIRK Opposition leader Tony Abbott smiles as he makes a speech to party supporter in Sydney, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, following his party’s win in Australia’s national election.…
CYPRUS LAWMAKERS OVERTURN BAILOUT LAW REJECTION
MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS A demonstrator, in the background, holds a portrait banner of Cuba’s revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara during an anti-bailout protest outside of the parliament in capital Nicosia, Thursday,…
AUSTRALIAN GOV’T FACES CARBON TAX BACKLASH AT POLL
By KRISTEN GELINEAU and ROD McGUIRK Agnes Lee, 52, an IT consultant, reads a paper while having a coffee in Sydney, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. The ruling Labor Party’s probable…
EU UNVEILS PLAN TO CLAMP DOWN ON SHADOW BANKING
By JUERGEN BAETZ European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. The European Commission adopted…
MORE TANK LEAKS FOUND AT JAPAN NUCLEAR PLANT
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 file photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture,…