TURKEY: COURT OVERTURNS MOVE BLOCKING PROBE
In this photo taken late Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey. After a decade of dominance over Turkey’s…
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3 TURKISH CABINET MINISTERS RESIGN OVER PROBE
By SUZAN FRASER In this photo taken late Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, Turkey’s Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, right, Interior Minister Muammer Guler, center, and EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis speak…
HEALTH CARE DIVIDES SOME REPUBLICAN SENATE RIVALS
By BILL BARROW FILE – In this March 20, 2010 file photo, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., speaks to people demonstrating against the health care bill on the U.S. Capitol steps…
ICONS OF EGYPT’S PROTEST MOVEMENT IMPRISONED
By SARAH EL DEEB and MARIAM RIZK FILE – In this Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013 file photo, Ahmed Maher, with sunglasses, the leader of the April 6 youth group that…
KIEV ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST DRAWS 100,000
By YURAS KARMANAU Pro-European Union activists gather in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. Ukraine has been stricken with mass protests for over a month, as protesters…
KHODORKOVSKY: I WON’T GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS
By FRANK JORDANS Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, listens to Checkpoint Charlie Museum curator, Alexandra Hildebrandt, left, as he arrives for a press conference at the museum in Berlin, Sunday Dec. 22,…
ISRAELI MINISTERS DEMAND END TO US SPYING
By DANIEL ESTRIN FILE – This June 6, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. A presidential advisory panel has recommended…
TURKEY DISMISSES ISTANBUL POLICE CHIEF
By SUZAN FRASER Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Istanbul police leading a major corruption and bribery investigation…