US, RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS MAY MEET SYRIA DELEGATES
By JOHN HEILPRIN Louay Safi, spokesperson for the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s main political opposition group, gestures as he talks to journalists after a meeting with the Syrian government at…
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PUSSY RIOT MEMBERS MAY RUN FOR MOSCOW ASSEMBLY
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, and Maria Alekhina of Pussy Riot, participate in a press conference of the Cinema For Peace foundation in Berlin , Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)…
SYRIA BEGINS EVACUATING CIVILIANS TRAPPED IN HOMS
By BASSEM MROUE In this video image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens sit aboard a bus after they evacuated the besieged rebel-held neighborhood of of…
SCIENTISTS FIND 800,000-YEAR-OLD FOOTPRINTS IN UK
By JILL LAWLESS Undated handout photo issued by the British Museum Friday Feb. 7, 2014 of some of the human footprints, thought to be more than 800,000 years old, found…
ACTIVISTS: SYRIAN REBELS FREE HUNDREDS FROM PRISON
Associated Press In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge…
TURKISH INTERNET RESTRICTIONS RAISE MORE CONCERNS
By SUZAN FRASER In this picture taken late Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, Oktay Vural, a leading deputy from the opposition Nationalist Action Party, MHP, holds up a placard during a…
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…
POPE TELLS MISSIONARY GROUP TO RESPECT CULTURE
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis attends an audience with members of the Neocatechumenal Way missionary movement, in the Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. Francis met…