FIGHTING REPORTED IN S. SUDAN DESPITE CEASE-FIRE
By ILYA GRIDNEFF Nhail Deng Nhail, 2nd left, the head of South Sudan’s negotiating team, and top negotiator for the rebel’s side, Taban Deng Gai, right, a general in South…
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DIVIDED EGYPT MARKS 3RD ANNIVERSARY OF UPRISING
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and SARAH EL DEEB An Egyptian vendor displays a mask of Egypt’s Defense Minister, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 uprising, in…
RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR ‘REAL PRESSURE’ ON SYRIA
By FRANK JORDANS Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The…
S SUDAN: ‘HORRIFYING HUMAN RIGHTS DISASTER’
FILE – In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, a man unloads food assistance supplied by the International Red Cross which arrived in the morning by truck to help…
EGYPT HOLDS KEY VOTE ON COUNTRY’S NEW CHARTER
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and SARAH EL DEEB Egyptians women show their inked fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Egyptians are…
BODIES LITTER SOUTH SUDAN OIL TOWN; TALKS RESUME
By ILYA GRIDNEFF Civilians who fled the recent fighting stack their belongings up outside the gate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound, hoping to benefit from…
BODY OF ISRAEL’S ARIEL SHARON LIES IN STATE
By ARON HELLER Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset plaza, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Sharon, the…
ARIEL SHARON, FORMER ISRAELI PM, DIES AT 85
By JOSEF FEDERMAN FILE – In this Wednesday Feb. 7, 2001 file photo, Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s Prime Minister-elect, looks up as he touches Judaism holiest site, the Western Wall,…