INDIA’S OPPOSITION PARTY NAMES PM CANDIDATE
By ASHOK SHARMA FILE – In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 file photo, Gujarat state Chief Minister and India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi receives a garland…
Social affairs
POLICE MAKE ARRESTS AT CAPITOL IMMIGRATION RALLY
By ERICA WERNER Women are arrested as they block the intersection of Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey Avenue SE outside the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington,…
MO. LAWMAKERS DECIDING VETO OVERRIDE ON GUN BILL
By DAVID A. LIEB Participants applaud during a rally to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a gun bill on the south lawn of the Missouri State Capital in Jefferson…
IRAQ TRIES NOVEL WAYS TO CURB RISING VIOLENCE
By SAMEER N. YACOUB In this picture taken on Sept. 9, 2013, Iraqi army soldiers guard a moat surrounding the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north…
DOMINICAN CARDINAL: VATICAN WILL PROBE EX-ENVOY
By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ This March 15, 2013 photo shows Archbishop Josef Wesolowski, papal nuncio for the Dominican Republic, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Authorities in the Dominican Republic will…
RUSSIA MAY UP IRAN ARMS SALES IF US STRIKES SYRIA
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 file photo, Russian air defense missile systems are displayed at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky…
THE NSA MACHINE: TOO BIG FOR ANYONE TO UNDERSTAND
By MATT APUZZO FILE – NSA’s Utah Data Center is shown in this Thursday, June 6, 2013 file photo taken in Bluffdale, Utah. Newly declassified documents released Tuesday Sept. 10,…
CONGRESS HONORS BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING VICTIMS
By ANDREW MIGA President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Lawrence Pijeaux, front, lays on a table the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously awarded in honor of Addie Mae…