IRISH ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Police hold a line of barriers as protestors gather outside the government in Dublin, as politicians return after the summer recess, Wednesday Sept. 18, 2013. Some hundreds…
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BANGLADESH OPPOSITION PROTESTS WAR CRIMES VERDICT
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi social activists shout slogans during a rally against a strike called by Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The Jamaat-e-Islami…
ALLEGED NSA POST IN AUSTRIA BECOMES STATE AFFAIR
By GEORGE JAHN This picture taken Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 shows a villa that allegedly belongs to the NSA in Vienna, Austria. NSA outrage has come to Austria big time.…
GOP LEADERS CONFOUNDED ON STOPGAP SPENDING BILL
By ANDREW TAYLOR House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks during news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, after meeting with congressional leaders of both parties…
HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS AS HEALTH CARE MARKETS OPEN
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR FILE – In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama…
RUSSIA MAY UP IRAN ARMS SALES IF US STRIKES SYRIA
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 file photo, Russian air defense missile systems are displayed at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky…
GREEK HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TO STRIKE OVER JOB CUTS
By DEREK GATOPOULOS University administrative staff members chant slogans outside the Administrative Reform ministry in central Athens against austerity measures that threaten their jobs, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. The…
LEADERS SEEK TO AVOID EARLY CALIF. INMATE RELEASES
By DON THOMPSON FILE — In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, inmates workout in the exercise yard of Housing Unit B at California State Prison, Sacramento, near Folsom, Calif.…