SENATE READY FOR SHOWDOWN ON OBAMA PICK FOR ATF
By ALAN FRAM FILE – In this June 11, 2013 file photo, B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms…
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SYRIAN ENVOY: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CAN’T BE TOLERATED
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Bashar Ja’afari, Syria’s U.N. ambassador, gestures as he speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at United Nations headquarters. Bashar Ja’afari says the use…
IAEA: JAPAN NUKE CLEANUP MAY TAKE MORE THAN 40 YRS
By MARI YAMAGUCHI International Atomic Energy Agency mission team leader Juan Carlos Lentijo speaks during a press conference in Tokyo Monday, April 22, 2013. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team said…
CLASHES IN SYRIA; REBELS SEEK FOREIGN INTERVENTION
By BASSEM MROUE This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti Syrian regime protesters…
UN COMPARES IRAQ DEATH PENALTY — USE TO SLAUGHTER
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki greets supporters following a campaign rally in Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 15, 2013. Al-Maliki resumed…
CHINA WHO CHIEF: BEIJING H7N9 CASE NOT SURPRISING
A nurse stays with a patient at a specialized fever clinic inside the Ditan Hospital, where a Chinese girl warded for the H7N9 strain of bird flu, in Beijing Saturday,…
NORTH KOREA HINTS IT WILL SOON LAUNCH A MISSILE
By JEAN H. LEE In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, North Korean military officers look from a sight-seeing boat sailing on the Yalu River, the China-North Korea border river,…
G-8 FOREIGN MINISTERS SLAM NKOREA RHETORIC
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and BRADLEY KLAPPER British foreign Secretary William Hague, right, greets German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting at Lancaster House Thursday April 11,…