ATTACK POINTS TO AL-QAIDA SURGE IN YEMEN
By AHMED AL-HAJ FILE – In this Tuesday, April 23, 2013 file photo, a suspected Yemeni al-Qaida militant, center, holds an Islamist banner as he stands behind bars during a…
Political and civil unrest
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMISSION ACC– USES POLICE OF LYING
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA FILE – In this file photo taken Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin…
IRISH ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Police hold a line of barriers as protestors gather outside the government in Dublin, as politicians return after the summer recess, Wednesday Sept. 18, 2013. Some hundreds…
PEOPLE MARCH AGAINST GREEK SEGREGATION AT ALABAMA
By JAY REEVES In this Aug. 17, 2013 photo, female students at the University of Alabama prepare to run from Bryant-Denny Stadium to their new sorority houses after receiving their…
BANGLADESH OPPOSITION PROTESTS WAR CRIMES VERDICT
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi social activists shout slogans during a rally against a strike called by Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The Jamaat-e-Islami…
BRAZIL LEADER POSTPONES TRIP TO US OVER SPYING
By BRADLEY BROOKS FILE – In this April 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, meets with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff in the Oval Office of the White House…
WITNESS IN RUTO TRIAL DESCRIBES CHURCH TORCHING
By MIKE CORDER Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, right, speaks with his defense counsel Karim Khan, left, in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands,…
GREECE: SCHOOLS SHUT, PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Striking teachers protest in Thessaloniki on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Thousands of school teachers and other civil servants held an afternoon demonstration to demand…