ISRAEL COURT FINES WOMAN OVER NOT CIRCUMCISING SON
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israelis protest in support of a woman who refuses to have her son circumcised, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013. An Israeli rabbinic court is…
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POPE WANTS CLOSER LOOK AT VATICAN’S FINANCE REFORM
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis grabs a shirt thrown to him by faithful as he leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the…
SOMALI POLICE STRUGGLE TO STOP DEADLY ATTACKS
By ABDI GULED In this photo taken Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, a Somali policeman searches people for explosives and other weapons at a road junction in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia.…
Thanksgiving-Hanukkah overlap spurs thanks, angst
By JEFF KAROUB Second-grader Talia Begres, 7, works on creating a menurkey, a paper-and-paint mashup of a menorah and turkey at Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov.…
EGYPT PROSECUTOR REFERS MUBARAK TO NEW TRIAL
By SARAH EL DEEB Protesters against the Muslim Brotherhood, front, throw rocks towards supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Nasr City district in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013.…
EGYPT EXPELS TURKISH AMBASSADOR, SCALES BACK TIES
By SARAH EL DEEB and SUZAN FRASER FILE — In this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, released by the Egyptian Presidency, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, meets…
EGYPT’S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BLASTS KERRY COMMENTS
By TONY G. GABRIEL and MARIAM RIZK Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi raise his posters and their hands with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of…
Israel, Gulf in ‘strange alliance’ against Iran
By BRIAN MURPHY FILE-In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, is greeted by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud,…