TUNISIA’S GOVERNING ISLAMISTS TO STEP DOWN
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA FILE- Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses the media in this file photo dated Monday, July 29, 2013, in Tunis, Tunisia. It is announced Saturday Sept.…
Political and civil unrest
SUDAN POLICE FIRE ON FUNERAL MARCH, WITNESSES SAY
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese men pray over the body of Salah Sanhory, 26, who was killed on Friday Sept. 27, 2013 by security forces, during his funeral in Khartoum, Sudan,…
MISS WORLD DRAMA FUELED BY HOST COUNTRY INDONESIA
By MARGIE MASON In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, Muslim women hold posters reading: Indonesia is not America, left, and Reject Miss World, during a protest demanding the cancellation…
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,…
CLASHES BREAK OUT IN ATHENS ANTI-FASCIST RALLY
By ELENA BECATOROS Students shout slogans as they march through the city center of Athens during a protest against far-right Golden Dawn party, Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. The government…
TUNISIA LEADER URGES IRAN TO PUSH PEACE IN SYRIA
By LARA JAKES In this video image taken from AP video, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, talks with a reporter at United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Marzouki is in…
PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS PROTEST DEADLY CHURCH BOMBING
By RIAZ KHAN A Pakistani woman mourns as she holds the lifeless body of her granddaughter, a victim of a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept.…
SRI LANKA’S WAR-HIT TAMILS VOTE FOR WIDER AUTONOMY
By KRISHAN FRANCIS A Sri Lankan man cycles with a boy a day after the northern provincial council election in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. A former political…