LAWYER OF IRANIAN IN ISRAEL DENIES SPY ALLEGATIONS
Ali Mansouri, a Belgian-Iranian national, sits in a courtroom in Petah Tikvah near Tel Aviv, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. A lawyer for the Iranian accused of espionage in Israel said…
Middle East
TURKEY UNVEILS REFORMS, SOME AIMED AT KURDS
By DESMOND BUTLER and SUZAN FRASER FILE – In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan is…
THOUSANDS PROTEST AS SUDAN OFFICIALS PROMISE CASH
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets in night march in…
EGYPT’S EX-VP CALLS CAMPAIGN AGAINST HIM “FASCIST”
FILE – In this Saturday, Nov. 24, 2013 file photo, leading democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei speaks to a handful of journalists including the Associated Press, at his home on the…
AP PHOTOS: SYRIANS SEEK SAFETY IN ANCIENT RUINS
The Associated Press In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 photo, a displaced Syrian woman comforts her one-month old grandchild Fatima inside a stone house near Kafer Rouma, in ancient ruins…
EGYPT BORDER RESTRICTIONS LEAVE THOUSANDS STRANDED
EGYPT BORDER RESTRICTIONS LEAVE THOUSANDS STRANDED A Palestinian student waits to cross the border from Gaza into Egypt at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 29,…
CLASHES IN EASTERN LEBANON KILL AT LEAST 3
By BASSEM MROUE Members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group remove one of their checkpoints in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and policemen…
SUDAN POLICE FIRE ON FUNERAL MARCH, WITNESSES SAY
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese men pray over the body of Salah Sanhory, 26, who was killed on Friday Sept. 27, 2013 by security forces, during his funeral in Khartoum, Sudan,…