SECRETIVE VATICAN BANK TAKES STEP TO TRANSPARENCY
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, file photo, Italian financial police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.…
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POPE URGES REFORM, WANTS CHURCH WITH MODERN SPIRIT
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at…
WEAPONS EXPERTS KICK OFF COMPLEX SYRIA MISSION
By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM The convoy of a U.N. team of weapons inspectors, who concluded its almost week-long mission in Syria, arrive at Rafik Hariri international airport in…
UN: SYRIA REFUGEE CRISIS HURTING REGION’S ECONOMY
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Portuguese Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, right, shakes hands with US Deputy Secretary of State William Joseph Burns, left, prior the High Level…
SWEDISH GYPSY FILE BRINGS RACIAL PROFILING FEARS
By MALIN RISING In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, Marcello Demeter stands on the balcony of his apartment in a Stockholm suburb. About a week ago, the 42-year-old…
TURKEY UNVEILS REFORMS, SOME AIMED AT KURDS
By DESMOND BUTLER and SUZAN FRASER FILE – In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan is…
PARIS CATWALKS MIRROR THE WORLD, GOES DIGITAL
By THOMAS ADAMSON A model presents a creation as part of Givenchy’s ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 2014 fashion collection, presented Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) PARIS (AP) —…
WANTED GREEK LAWMAKER GIVES HIMSELF UP
By DEMETRIS NELLAS An anti-terror police officer carries a box containing the case file against the arrested suspects of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn party as he arrives at the…