THAI PM DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT, CALLS ELECTIONS
By TODD PITMAN and JOCELYN GECKER Thai anti-government protesters make their way on a street during a march rally in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck…
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NORTH KOREA PURGES KIM JONG UN’S POWERFUL UNCLE
By FOSTER KLUG FILE – In this Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, front center, is followed by his uncle Jang Song Thaek, vice chairman…
SYRIAN TROOPS SEIZE CONTROL OF STRATEGIC HIGHWAY
By BASSEM MROUE Syrian Muslims walk in the courtyard of the historic Umayyad Mosque before weekly prayers in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. One of the oldest mosques in…
SEIZURE OF NUNS STOKES SYRIAN CHRISTIAN FEARS
By LEE KEATH A Syrian acolyte girl listens to the sermon, during prayers for nuns held by rebels, at the Greek Orthodox Mariamiya Church in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8,…
SENATE DEMS PUSH OBAMA NOMINEES, GOP BIDES TIME
By ALAN FRAM FILE – This June 4, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama pausing as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington where…
INTERNET GIANTS WEIGH IN ON OHIO DEFAMATION SUIT
By AMANDA LEE MYERS FILE-This Monday, July 30, 2012 file photo shows Sarah Jones, a former Dixie Heights High School teacher and Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheerleader, arriving at the Kenton County…
ANTI-GOVT PROTESTERS IN KIEV TOPPLE LENIN STATUE
Pro-European Union activists gather around a huge poster of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, bottom, during a rally in the Independence Square in KIev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 8,…
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT FACES FIRST ELECTORAL TEST
By JOSHUA GOODMAN A member of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council tests a voting machine at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Venezuelans will vote in…