Iraq: al-Maliki’s rivals jockey to replace him
By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA FILE – This Dec. 3, 2011 file photo shows Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki talks during an interview with The Associated Press in…
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Obama sending military advisers to Iraq
By LARA JAKES and JULIE PACE President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Senate Majority Leader Harry…
A FRESH START FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND LIBERALS?
By KEN THOMAS FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2014 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in New Orleans. Liberals may be giving Hillary Rodham Clinton…
BIDEN: ‘NO OBVIOUS REASON’ NOT TO RUN IN 2016
Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. Biden in his visit to the train station stressed the need…
OBAMA: SEX ASSAULT AN AFFRONT TO DECENCY, HUMANITY
By NEDRA PICKLER FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. President Barack Obama is launching an initiative to…
JAILED AMERICAN APPEARS BEFORE REPORTERS IN NKOREA
American missionary Kenneth Bae speaks to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Bae, 45, who has been jailed in North Korea for more than a…
ISRAEL RETALIATES TO GAZA FIRE AFTER SHARON BURIAL
Israeli soldiers from a paratroopers unit rehearse at the grave site for late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who will be buried next to his wife, outside his ranch in…
BODY OF ISRAEL’S ARIEL SHARON LIES IN STATE
By ARON HELLER Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset plaza, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Sharon, the…