CHINESE CITIZENS MOVEMENT LEADER ARRESTED
By GILLIAN WONG FILE – In this July 17, 2009 file photo, legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, center, walks past Chinese lawyers, Jiang Tianyong, right, and Yang Huiwen, second left, after…
Political activism
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS CLAIM DEADLY ‘TOXIC GAS’ ATTACK
By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
ACTIVISTS SCUFFLE WITH SWEDISH POLICE OVER MINING
JOKKMOKK, Sweden (AP) — Police have removed some 50 screaming and singing activists who were blocking a road in northern Sweden to protest a British company’s plans to build an…
OBAMA TO HONOR CLINTON, OPRAH WITH FREEDOM MEDAL
By JOSH LEDERMAN FILE – In this May 30, 2013 file photo, Oprah Winfrey speaks during Harvard University’s commencement ceremonies in Cambridge, Mass. President Barack Obama will bestow the nation’s…
ACTIVISTS: SYRIAN TROOPS AMBUSH REBELS, KILL 62
By BASSEM MROUE FILE – In this June 18, 2013 file photo, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and…
EGYPT WARNS PRO-MORSI PROTESTERS TO LEAVE SIT-IN
By AYA BATRAWY A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a banner with Morsi’s image, during a march against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Nasr City,…
CHINA DEFENDS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
By DIDI TANG U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Uzra Zeya speaks to reporters at a news briefing on the latest U.S.-China Human Rights…
NAPOLITANO RE-ELECTED ITALY’S PRESIDENT
NAPOLITANO RE-ELECTED ITALY’S PRESIDENT FILE – In this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo Italian President Giorgio Napolitano arrives for a meeting with German President Joachim Gauck at Bellevue Palace in…