VATICAN FACING UN SHOWDOWN ON SEX AB– USE RECORD
By NICOLE WINFIELD and JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – In this Feb. 8, 2012 file photo Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Holy See’s chief sex crimes prosecutor, meets journalists in Rome. The…
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IRAN’S ROUHANI CASTS NUKE DEAL AS WIN FOR NATION
FILE- In this Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 file photo, an aerial view of a heavy-water production plant in the central Iranian town of Arak. Iran’s reformers and moderate conservatives welcomed…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION GROUP ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE
By RYAN LUCAS and ZEINA KARAM FILE – In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo, Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmed Jarba, center, Heitham Al-Maleh, left, and Salem Al-Muslit speak to…
BACH EXPECTS ‘SAFE AND SECURE’ OLYMPICS IN SOCHI
Military vehicles surround a wreckage of a trolleybus, in Volgograd, Russia, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. A bomb blast tore through a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd on Monday morning,…
IRAN: WORLD POWERS SHOULD AVOID ‘TROUBLEMAKING’
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, points at the beginning of a joint press conference with his Italian counterpart Emma Bonino in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. Iran’s…
UN: $12.9 BILLION AID NEEDED IN 2014
\By JOHN HEILPRIN A Syrian refugee woman fetches water at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. Tens of thousands of…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION GETS LESSONS IN NEGOTIATING
By MIKE CORDER FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes…
IRAN INVITES UN EXPERTS TO ARAK HEAVY WATER PLANT
By GEORGE JAHN Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board…