REMADE MIDEAST POSES NEW PERILS FOR OBAMA ON TRIP
By MATTHEW LEE Students of Estella’s school for bakery and pastry making, work on an image depicting U.S. President Barack Obama made out of chocolate in Givat Shmuel, central Israel,…
War and unrest
COMMANDER: CONTINGENCY PLANS UNDER WAY FOR SYRIA
By DONNA CASSATA and RICHARD LARDNER Adm. James G. Stavridis, commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2013, before…
MORTAR EXPLOSION IN NEV. KILLS 7 NC UNIT MARINES
By SCOTT SONNER and TED BRIDIS FILE – This May 20, 2005 file photo shows storage bunkers at the U.S. Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nev. Seven Marines from a North…
AP: COSTS OF US WARS LINGER FOR OVER 100 YEARS
By MIKE BAKER OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service…
COUSIN OF LIBYA’S GADHAFI ARRESTED IN EGYPT
By AMIR MAKAR Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Libya’s former dictator Moammar Gadhafi, gestures to supporters from a car after being arrested in Cairo, Egypt, March 19. 2013. Egyptian security…
US OK WITH FRANCE, UK ARMING SYRIA’S REBELS
Secretary of State John Kerry, accompanied by Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, gestures as he speaks to reporters following their meeting at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 18,…
SYRIAN REBEL OFFICIAL BACKS INTERIM GOVERNMENT
By BEN HUBBARD Khalid Saleh, the spokesman for the opposition Syrian National Coalition, speaks to reporters in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, March 18, 2013. The coalition began a push Monday to…
EGYPT VIGILANTES HANG 2 THIEVES IN PUBLIC
By AYA BATRAWY EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT — Egyptian men surround the bodies of two men who were beaten and hung by vigilantes after being accused of theft in Samanod,…