PUTIN’S VISIT TO GERMANY CLOUDED BY DISPUTES
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the opening ceremony of the Hannover Fair in the Congress Centrum in Hannover, Germany, Sunday April 7,…
Western Europe
FRANCIS HONORS JOHN PAUL II BEFORE INSTALLATION
By FRANCES D’EMILIO FILE – In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo, Pope Francis greets the faithful at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the…
AL-QAIDA LEADER URGES MUSLIMS TO UNITE IN STRUGGLE
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE — In this undated file frame grab from video provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, shows Al-Qaida’s leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a…
WOMAN IN BERLUSCONI SEX TRIAL DENOUNCES TACTICS
By NICOLE WINFIELD and LUCA BRUNO Karima el-Mahroug, also known as Ruby, a Moroccan woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s sex-for-hire trial, wipes away a tear as she…
CYPRUS TO BUILD GAS PLANT WITH OR WITHOUT ISRAEL
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Cyprus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Kasoulides, right, and the Foreign minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, speak to the media in Nicosia, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Bildt…
SCIENTISTS FIND HINT OF DARK MATTER FROM COSMOS
SCIENTISTS FIND HINT OF DARK MATTER FROM COSMOS FILE -In this undated picture made available by NASA, a technician examines the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Kennedy Space Center in Cape…
OFFICIALS: KERRY TO TRAVEL TO MIDEAST THIS WEEKEND
By BRADLEY KLAPPER U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, not pictured, at the State Department in Washington, on…
Spanish court names king’s daughter as suspect
By CIARAN GILES FILE – In this May 22, 2006 file photo, Spain’s King Juan Carlos, right arrives with his daughter, Princess Cristina, centre and her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, for…