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…
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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…
NC REPUBLICANS VOW TO FIGHT US DOJ OVER VOTER LAWS
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and PETE YOST FILE – In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony…
UN: SYRIA REFUGEE CRISIS HURTING REGION’S ECONOMY
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Portuguese Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, right, shakes hands with US Deputy Secretary of State William Joseph Burns, left, prior the High Level…
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST WOMAN LEADER SURPRISED BY SEXISM
By ROD McGUIRK Journalist Anne Summers, left, gestures while she chats with former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard prior to an interview at the Opera House in Sydney, Australia,…
SWEDISH GYPSY FILE BRINGS RACIAL PROFILING FEARS
By MALIN RISING In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, Marcello Demeter stands on the balcony of his apartment in a Stockholm suburb. About a week ago, the 42-year-old…
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…
THOUSANDS PROTEST AS SUDAN OFFICIALS PROMISE CASH
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets in night march in…