SAUDI ARABIA REJECTS SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL
By AYA BATRAWY and EDITH M. LEDERER FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria…
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DUTCH DIPLOMAT BEATEN IN MOSCOW AT TIME OF TENSION
By LYNN BERRY A woman walks past the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. A Dutch diplomat was beaten up by two unidentified men…
TOUGH JOB FOR TEAM DESTROYING SYRIA NERVE AGENTS
By KARIN LAUB FILE — In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on…
SNOWDEN: MASS SURVEILLANCE MAKING US LESS SAFE
In this image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam…
4 US WHISTLEBLOWERS MEET SNOWDEN IN MOSCOW
Lon Snowden, left, speaks to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Edward Snowden’s father Lon Snowden told Russian television outside the Moscow airport Thursday morning that…
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT WINS WAGES CASE VS SPACE AGENCY
FILE – In this Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 file photo Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov shortly after landing in a Soyuz space capsule near Arkalyk, in Kazakhstan. A Moscow regional court…
RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN LIBYA EVACUATED AFTER ATTACK
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Map locates Tripoli, Libya, where where an armed mob broke into the Russian embassy; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm; MOSCOW (AP) — Russia…
WEAPONS EXPERTS KICK OFF COMPLEX SYRIA MISSION
By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM The convoy of a U.N. team of weapons inspectors, who concluded its almost week-long mission in Syria, arrive at Rafik Hariri international airport in…