SHELLS HIT DAMASCUS AREA AS ASSAD ATTENDS PRAYERS
By ALBERT AJI and BARBARA SURK In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, President Bashar Assad, third right in front row, alongside Syria’s grand mufti, second…
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EGYPT SAYS DIPLOMACY HAS FAILED TO RESOLVE CRISIS
By AYA BATRAWY A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds his posters with Arabic writing which reads ” Yes for legality,” during a protest outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque,…
EGYPT’S LEADERSHIP DENOUNCES ‘FOREIGN PRESSURE’
By MAGGIE MICHAEL This image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows interim Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei, left, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, in Cairo, Egypt,…
EGYPT WARNS PRO-MORSI PROTESTERS TO LEAVE SIT-IN
By AYA BATRAWY A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a banner with Morsi’s image, during a march against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Nasr City,…
CHINA DEFENDS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
By DIDI TANG U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Uzra Zeya speaks to reporters at a news briefing on the latest U.S.-China Human Rights…
PAKISTANI LAWMAKERS POISED TO ELECT PRESIDENT
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT In this Wednesday, July 24, 2013 photo, Mamnoon Hussain, a candidate from ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-N arrives to submit his nomination papers for upcoming presidential election in…
EGYPT ARRESTS MORE ISLAMISTS AS EU OFFICIAL VISITS
By AYA BATRAWY In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, left, meets with interim prime minister, Mohamed ElBaradei in Cairo, Egypt, Monday,…
3 DEAD WHEN BUS CARRYING TEENS CRASHES IN INDIANA
By RICK CALLAHAN Firefighters work to extricate people from a bus crash Saturday, July 27, 2013 in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Fire Department says three people were killed when a bus carrying…