French climate envoy sees hope in low oil prices
By LORI HINNANT Low oil prices could paradoxically help the world reach an international agreement to fight global warming, according to the French ambassador charged with organizing a key climate…
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2014 frustrates US hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace
By LARA JAKES Secretary of State John Kerry is ending 2014 much in the same way he started it, frustrated in efforts to push Israel and Palestinians toward peace. With…
ACTIVISTS: SYRIAN REBELS FREE HUNDREDS FROM PRISON
Associated Press In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge…
UN COMMITTEE BLASTS VATICAN ON SEX AB– USE, ABORTION
By NICOLE WINFIELD Kirsten Sandberg, center, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks to committee members Maria Herczog, right, and Benyam Mezmur during…
JORDANIANS WORRY ABOUT FALLOUT FROM MIDEAST PEACE
By JAMAL HALABY Jordanian lawmakers attend the second day of a heated debate on the U.S. push for a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, under the domed parliament chamber…
HO– USE GOP LEADERS URGE OBAMA, DEMS TO ACT ON BILLS
FILE – This Jan. 28, 2014 file photo shows House John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. speaking at Republican National Committee headquarters in…
FIGHTING REPORTED IN S. SUDAN DESPITE CEASE-FIRE
By ILYA GRIDNEFF Nhail Deng Nhail, 2nd left, the head of South Sudan’s negotiating team, and top negotiator for the rebel’s side, Taban Deng Gai, right, a general in South…
VATICAN FACING UN SHOWDOWN ON SEX AB– USE RECORD
By NICOLE WINFIELD and JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – In this Feb. 8, 2012 file photo Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Holy See’s chief sex crimes prosecutor, meets journalists in Rome. The…