WORKER AB– USE BY DIPLOMATS A PROBLEM, ADVOCATES SAY
By COLLEEN LONG FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Nahar Alam, second from right, a former domestic worker from Bangladesh, gestures towards the Indian Consulate in New…
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CAMBODIAN POLL PROTESTERS JOINED BY WORKERS AGAIN
Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy, center right, and his party Cambodia National Rescue Party’s Vice President Kem Sokha, center left, wave during a mass demonstration at the on the main…
$0.60 FOR CAKE: AL-QAIDA RECORDS EVERY EXPENSE
FOR — USE MONDAY, DEC. 30, 2013 AND THEREAFTER – FILE – In this July 23, 2013 file photo, United Nations peacekeepers search a house suspected to have been used…
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 14 IN RUSSIA’S SOUTH
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV In this photo made by a public camera and made available by the Associated Press Television News the flash of an explosion illuminates the entrance to Volgograd…
ROCKETS FIRED FROM LEBANON INTO ISRAEL
A Lebanese army soldier holds remains of a rocket that struck northern Israel, while inspecting an area in the southern village of Sarada, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Rockets from…
BEIJING BUN SHOP GETS CHINA’S PRESIDENT AS DINER
Tourists from Guangdong province, who ordered similar food to what Chinese President Xi Jinping ate the day before, pose for photos at the Qing-Feng Steamed Dumpling Shop in Beijing, China,…
A LOOK AT SOUTH SUDAN, YOUNG BUT RESTIVE COUNTRY
A displaced woman makes tea for others inside a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in Juba, South Sudan Friday,…
VEILED EGYPTIAN RAPPER SPEAKS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS
By MARIAM RIZK In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 photo, Egyptian rapper Myam Mahmoud poses for a portrait in downtown Cairo. Mahmoud, an 18-year-old Egyptian, rapped her way to the…