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…
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…
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…
MISS WORLD DRAMA FUELED BY HOST COUNTRY INDONESIA
By MARGIE MASON In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, Muslim women hold posters reading: Indonesia is not America, left, and Reject Miss World, during a protest demanding the cancellation…
PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS PROTEST DEADLY CHURCH BOMBING
By RIAZ KHAN A Pakistani woman mourns as she holds the lifeless body of her granddaughter, a victim of a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept.…
SUICIDE ATTACK ON PAKISTANI CHURCH KILLS 75 PEOPLE
By RIAZ KHAN Pakistani Christians chant slogans as they burn materials during a protest against a suicide attack on a church, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 in Karachi, Pakistan. A suicide…
POPE’S BLUNT REMARKS POSE CHALLENGE FOR BISHOPS
By RACHEL ZOLL FILE – In this March 15, 2013 photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan as he meets…