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…
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…
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…
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…
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…