LIBYA PM LASHES OUT AT MILITIAS AFTER ABDUCTION
By ESAM MOHAMED Security forces work at the site where a car bomb went off outside the building housing Swedish and Finnish consulates on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Libya’s…
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NEW IRAN GOVERNMENT SCRAPS ANTI-ISRAELI CONFERENCE
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends a graduation ceremony…
EGYPT DECRIES US AID FREEZE, SAYS IT’S “INCORRECT”
By HAMZA HENDAWI FILE – In this Wednesday, April 24, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, second left, stands with an Egyptian army official before laying a…
LIBYA PREMIER BRIEFLY ABDUCTED IN SIGN OF CHAOS
By ESAM MOHAMMED and MAGGIE MICHAEL Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan, left, gives a press conference after being rescued from gunmen who snatched him from his hotel early Thursday and…
US DECISION TO CUT AID TO CREATE FRICTION IN EGYPT
By DEB RIECHMANN In this Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 photo, Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top and next to their armored vehicles to guard an entrance of Tahrir…
FRANCE IDENTIFIES 2 MORE REPORTERS HELD IN SYRIA
By GREG KELLER This undated photo provided by photographer Benoit Schaeffer shows French photo-reporter Nicolas Henin in Mogadishu, Somalia. France has revealed Wednesday, Oct.9, 2013 the existence of two more…
TRIAL DATE FOR MORSI STOKES EGYPT POLITICAL DRAMA
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, then Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center, speaks with Minister of Defense,…
CHEMICAL WATCHDOG CHIEF: 20 SYRIAN SITES TO CHECK
By MIKE CORDER Director General Ahmet Uzumcu of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, gives an update on the the chemical watchdog’s verification and destruction mission in…