PUTIN URGES US TO HOLD OFF ON STRIKING SYRIA
By LYNN BERRY Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media during his trip to Russia’s far eastern port of Vladivostok on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin…
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SCANT FOREIGN SUPPORT FOR US STRIKES ON SYRIA
By LARA JAKES FILE – This March 13, 2002 file photo shows US Troops from 10th Mountain Division sitting in a Chinook helicopter on their way to take up the…
POPE TAPS VATICAN DIPLOMAT TO BE HIS TOP AIDE
By FRANCES D’EMILIO FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2009 file photo Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Vatican Undersecretary of State for Relations with States speaks during a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.…
PUTIN URGES US TO HOLD OFF ON STRIKING SYRIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on the development of civil shipbuilding in Russia’s fareastern port of Vladivostok, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Putin visits the Russian Far East where…
SYRIANS BRACING FOR POSSIBLE US STRIKE
By DAVID ESPO and ELAINE GANLEY In this image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with his national security staff to discuss the situation in Syria, in…
SURINAME LEADER’S SON ARRESTED ON US DRUG CHARGE
By DANICA COTO FILE – In this Aug. 26, 2003 file photo, Dino Bouterse, son of Suriname President Desi Bouterse, arrives to a court hearing in Paramaribo, Suriname. A Panamanian…
US SAYS SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK KILLED 1,429
By DAVID ESPO and ELAINE GANLEY Secretary of State John Kerry makes a statement about Syria at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Kerry said the U.S.…
BRITAIN PROPOSES SYRIA RESOLUTION; RUSSIA OBJECTS
By ALEXANDRA OLSON and PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja’afari speaks to reporters after a meeting about Syria at United Nations headquarters Wednesday, Aug. 28,…