AP INTERVIEW: EGYPT SAYS IRANIAN POSE NO RISK
By MARIAM EZZAT Egypt’s minister of tourism, Hesham Zaazoua, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, March 28, 2013. Egypt’s tourism minister…
Religion and politics
MYANMAR’S ARMY PATROLS CENTRAL CITY AFTER VIOLENCE
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, armed Myanmar police oficers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550…
OBAMA VOWS UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama is greeted by Israeli President Shimon Perez, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion…
REMADE MIDEAST POSES NEW PERILS FOR OBAMA ON TRIP
By MATTHEW LEE Students of Estella’s school for bakery and pastry making, work on an image depicting U.S. President Barack Obama made out of chocolate in Givat Shmuel, central Israel,…
MD. POISED TO BE 18TH STATE TO BAN DEATH PENALTY
By MICHELLE JANAYE NEALY and BRIAN WITTE FILE – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley attends the National Governors Association 2013 Winter Meeting in Washington, in this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo.…
LATIN AMERICA SEES CHANGE UNDER REGION’S 1ST POPE
By KATHERINE CORCORAN Faithful react after hearing on the speakers at the Metropolitan Cathedral that Buenos Aires’ Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March…