UN: ‘UNSPEAKABLE SUFFERING’ FOR SYRIA’S CHILDREN
By BARBARA SURK FILE – In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in…
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UN COMMITTEE BLASTS VATICAN ON SEX AB– USE, ABORTION
By NICOLE WINFIELD Kirsten Sandberg, center, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks to committee members Maria Herczog, right, and Benyam Mezmur during…
EDUCATOR CHARGED WITH SEXUAL AB– USE IN YOUTUBE CASE
A woman who wanted to be identified by her first name, Brianna, is led away by her attorney, Luis Carrillo, right, after a news conference in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan.…
AFGHAN EXPRESSES OPTIMISM KARZAI WILL SIGN US PACT
By KAY JOHNSON Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta addresses a news conference at presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. President Hamid Karzai’s national security adviser…
POLICE IDENTIFY SHOOTER IN MARYLAND MALL SHOOTING
BEN NUCKOLS Two people embrace in the parking lot at the scene of a shooting at The Mall in Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 in Columbia, Md. Police say…
INDIA POLICE SAY VILLAGE ELDERS ORDERED GANG-RAPE
Thirteen men arrested in the Monday night gang rape of a woman are produced at a court in Bolpur, West Bengal state, India Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. A 20-year-old Indian…
POLICE: SLAIN OFFICER WAS SEEKING STOLEN LAPTOP
By TERRY COLLINS and CHANNING JOSEPH Law enforcement officers salute as the body of a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer draped with the American flag is loaded into an…
OBAMA: SEX ASSAULT AN AFFRONT TO DECENCY, HUMANITY
By NEDRA PICKLER FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. President Barack Obama is launching an initiative to…