SYRIA ACCEPTS WEAPONS PLAN, STRIKE MOMENTUM EASES
By RYAN LUCAS and LORI HINNANT Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks to the media in Moscow, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. Syria’s foreign minister said his country welcomes Russia’s proposal…
International relations
FORMER IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS SPOKESWOMAN NAMED AS VP
In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, Masoomeh Ebtekar, who was one of the Iranian students who occupied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and acted as…
TRIAL STARTS FOR KENYA DEPUTY PRESIDENT RUTO
By MIKE CORDER Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, right, awaits the start of his trial in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept.…
FILIPINO REBELS HOLD HOSTAGES AS HUMAN SHIELDS
By BULLIT MARQUEZ Government troops take their positions as about 200 Muslim rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the Philippine government, held scores of hostages as human shields…
CLINTON ENDORSES OBAMA EFFORT TO PUNISH SYRIA
By KEN THOMAS Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks about Syria, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House Complex in Washington, during…
RUSSIA TO PUSH SYRIA TO SURRENDER CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomes his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moallem, left, prior to talks in Moscow on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) MOSCOW (AP)…
ASSAD: ‘EXPECT EVERYTHING’ IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK
By PHILIP ELLIOTT In this frame grab from video taken Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, and provided by “CBS This Morning,” Syrian President Bashar Assad responds to a question from journalist…
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…