C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHOOSES MAYOR AS NEW LEADER
By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA and KRISTA LARSON In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a French soldier looks on as the body of a lynched Muslim man is burned by a…
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SYRIAN OPPOSITION GROUP ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE
By RYAN LUCAS and ZEINA KARAM FILE – In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo, Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmed Jarba, center, Heitham Al-Maleh, left, and Salem Al-Muslit speak to…
NEARLY 100 DEAD IN CAR BEFORE FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE
By KRISTA LARSON Shrouded bodies lay in a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Over…
UN OKS MILITARY ACTION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
By EDITH M. LEDERER Christian children from the village of Bouebou, some 40 kms (30 miles) North of Bangui, Central African Republic, are packed in the trunk of a taxi…
Easing of Iran sanctions could start in December
By JOHN-THOR In this photo released by the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, Iranians hold posters of President Hassan Rouhani as they welcome Iranian nuclear negotiators upon their arrival from…
French parish priest kidnapped in north Cameroon
By ELAINE GANLEY RECROPPED VERSION OF REB103 – This July 2011handout photo provided by the Sceaux city hall, north of Paris, shows French kidnapped priest Georges Vandenbeusch. A French priest…
Talks over Iran’s disputed nuke program hit a snag
By MATTHEW LEE and JOHN HEILPRIN U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second left, arrives for a meeting with European Union’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton before a second day of…
Kerry: Still differences in Iran nuclear talks
By GEORGE JAHN and JOHN HEILPRIN US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles as he arrives at Geneva International airport, Switzerland Friday Nov. 8, 2013 for closed-door nuclear talks at…