MYANMAR MUSLIMS HIDE AMID DEADLY SECTARIAN CLASHES
By KHIN MAUNG WIN Totally blackened pillars stand among debris of a burnt building Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, in Thandwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Terrified Muslim families hid in forests…
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VIETNAM DISSIDENT SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN JAIL
By CHRIS BRUMMITT A U.S-trained lawyer and well-known dissident Le Quoc Quan, right, listens to the judge during his trial in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday Oct. 2, 2013. The Hanoi…
SECRETIVE VATICAN BANK TAKES STEP TO TRANSPARENCY
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, file photo, Italian financial police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.…
UN: NEARLY 1,000 IRAQIS KILLED IN SEPTEMBER
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN FILE – in this Sept. 12, 2013 file photo, mourners grieve for a man killed Wednesday in a double bomb attack on a Shiite mosque while attending…
POPE URGES REFORM, WANTS CHURCH WITH MODERN SPIRIT
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at…
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…
WANTED GREEK LAWMAKER GIVES HIMSELF UP
By DEMETRIS NELLAS An anti-terror police officer carries a box containing the case file against the arrested suspects of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn party as he arrives at the…
US, INDIA SEEK CLOSER TIES AMID SOUTH ASIA TENSION
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama shakes hands with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The president…