POLICE MOVE IN ON MEXICO CITY PROTESTERS
By MARK STEVENSON and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Protesting teachers light a bonfire in Mexico City main plaza, the Zocalo, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. Thousands of teachers who have camped out…
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BOMBING IN SUNNI MOSQUE IN IRAQ, ATTACKS KILL 33
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Blood stains the walls and debris is strewn throughout the inside of a Sunni mosque after a suicide bomber struck during Friday prayers in the village of…
DE BLASIO TOPS MAYORAL PRIMARY; RUNOFF POSSIBLE
By JONATHAN LEMIRE New York City Democratic Mayoral hopeful Bill De Blasio embraces his son Dante, left, daughter Chiara, second from left, and wife Chirlane, right, after addressing supporters at…
VOTING PROBLEMS PLAGUE NYC PRIMARY ELECTION
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, arrive to cast their primary votes, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, at the Park Slope Public Library in…
NYC MAYORAL HOPEFULS TRY TO GET TO EXPECTED RUNOFF
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio, right, is joined by his daughter Chiara, during a campaign rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, Sept. 7,…
MEXICO PROPOSES SWEEPING SOCIAL PROGRAM CHANGES
By MARK STEVENSON Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Sunday Sept. 8, 2013. Pena Nieto is proposing a plan to implement the…
SYRIAN REBELS SEIZE CONTROL OF CHRISTIAN VILLAGE
By JAMAL HALABY In this Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian military solider fires a heavy machine gun during clashes with…
MOSCOW VOTES IN PIVOTAL MAYORAL RACE
By LAURA MILLS Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with his wife Yulia, center, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar arrive at a polling station in Moscow’s mayoral election in Moscow, Russia,…