EU’S ASHTON: YANUKOVYCH WANTS TO SIGN EU DEAL
By JIM HEINTZ and RAF CASERT Pro-European Union activists are trained to resist police inside their tent camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Ukraine was…
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RADICAL PREACHER GOES ON TRIAL IN JORDAN
By JAMAL HALABY FILE – In this Tuesday, April 17, 2012 file photo, Radical al-Qaida-linked preacher Abu Qatada is driven away after being refused bail at a hearing at London’s…
NATO CHIEF: NOT JUST KARZAI CAN SIGN AFGHAN PACT
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, center, gives opening remarks at the start of the Internal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.…
UKRAINE: TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH THROUGH KIEV
By MARIA DANILOVA Demonstrators gather during a rally in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. As many as 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center…
A LOOK AT KEY ARTICLES IN EGYPTIAN DRAFT CHARTER
Members of Egypt’s panel tasked with amending Egypt’s Islamist-drafted constitution, read drafts of the constitution before they begin voting on a series of amendments, in the Shoura Council, Cairo, Egypt,…
POLICE FORCEFULLY BREAK UP DEMONSTRATION IN KIEV
By YURAS KARMANAU Injured protesters look for medical help in ambulance after Ukrainian riot police broke up a rally demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych, at the Independence Square…
US OFFERS TO DESTROY SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By TOBY STERLING and ALBERT AJI FILE – In this Oct. 9, 2013, file photo, Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, gives an update…
Iran nuke deal could push oil prices lower
By JONATHAN FAHEY FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, oil pumps work in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. Oil prices could be headed lower…