COUNTDOWN: GOP UNITY FRAYS AS SHUTDOWN GROWS NEAR
By DAVID ESPO Speaker of the House John Boehner, R- Ohio, pauses during a news conference after a House Republican Conference meeting about the ongoing budget fight on Capitol Hill…
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TURKEY UNVEILS REFORMS, SOME AIMED AT KURDS
By DESMOND BUTLER and SUZAN FRASER FILE – In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan is…
GREEK FAR-RIGHT LEADER, OTHER LEGISLATORS ARRESTED
By DEMETRIS NELLAS Leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn party Nikos Michaloliakos, center, is escorted by anti-terror police as he exits Greek Police headquarters, in Athens, Saturday, Sept. 28,…
SHUTDOWN THREAT PUTS HEAT ON HO– USE GOP
By ANDREW TAYLOR Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., right, arrive for the Senate to vote on a bill to fund the government, but stripped of…
US, ALLIES SEE CHANCE TO RESOLVE IRAN NUKE IMPASSE
By MATTHEW LEE and LARA JAKES CORRECTS DATE TO THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 2013 FROM WEDNESDAY – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif…
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…
SENATE PURSUES LAW TO LIMIT NSA SURVEILLANCE
By KIMBERLY DOZIER Senate Intelligence Committee ChairmaSen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., second from left, talks with from left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander, and…
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,…