Chris Christie charging ahead in NJ and beyond
By STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT FILE – In this Nov. 5, 2013 file photo, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie celebrates his election victory in Asbury Park, N.J., after…
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SYRIAN PRESIDENT CASTS DOUBT ON PEACE CONFERENCE
By BASSEM MROUE and RYAN LUCAS In this photo, which AP obtained from Syrian official news agency SANA and which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP…
ACTIVISTS RELEASE DOGS FROM LAB IN BRAZIL
Demonstrators run away from the Instituto Royal laboratory to escape tear gas fired by police, as a police car burns along a road leading to the lab in Sao Roque,…
JAPANESE COURT: ANTI-KOREA ‘HATE SPEECH’ ILLEGAL
By MARI YAMAGUCHI In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, nationalist protesters with Japanese flags, left, and Japan’s naval ensign, right, march through a Tokyo street to denounce”privileges” for…
CAR BOMB KILLS AT LEAST 30 NORTH OF SYRIAN CAPITAL
U.N. experts arrive to the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. A team of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors returned to Damascus on Wednesday to complete their…
GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS JAILED AMID RUSSIAN PROBE
By ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA A police officer guards the US captain of the Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’, Peter Willcox in a cage in a court room in Murmansk,…
GREENPEACE SHIP IN RUSSIAN ARCTIC TOWED TO PORT
By LAURA MILLS In this image released by environmental organization Greenpeace, a Russian Coast guard officer, right, points a gun at a Greenpeace International activist, left in yellow uniform, as…
INFLUENCE GAME: INDUSTRY SOUNDS ALARM ON PIRACY
By ANNE FLAHERTY FILE – In this April 24, 2012, file photo, Motion Picture of Association of America of Chief Executive Chris Dodd speaks during his CinemaCon State of the…