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** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) listens to a technician during his visit to the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office)

Iran courts restart of nuke talks, but snubs U.N.

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Syrians struggle to get pillows and blankets distributed at a camp for displaced civilians, in the village of Atmeh, Syria. Other Syrians have escaped the conflict by going to neighboring countries, taxing the ability of those nations and international relief agencies to help them. "In terms of the overall numbers, it is very clear the region is facing a humanitarian disaster that is deepening by the day," said Sharon Waxman, of the International Rescue Committee's Commission on Syrian Refugees. (Associated Press)

Refugees flood Syria’s neighbors

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Syrians gather at the site of an explosion at Aleppo University in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian army intensifies offensive against rebels

By Albert Aji and Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Herman Nackaerts (center), deputy director-general and head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks to the press before his flight to Iran at Schwechat Airport outside Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. The U.N. agency's team is embarking on a new try to restart its probe into suspicions that Iran secretly worked on nuclear arms. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei’s ban on nuclear weapons binding

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

N. Korea accused of abusing its prisoners

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Edner Gue (right) and Labon Florestal work to clean up the earthquake damaged Grande College Auguste Comte de Petionville, in their neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, on Jan. 11, 2013. The director of the elementary and high school is paying workers to clean up his school and plans to open classes even if the government does not rebuild it. On Jan. 12, Haiti will mark the 3rd anniversary of the earthquake that officials say killed more than 300,000 people and displaced more than a million others. The disaster is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. (Associated Press)

Haiti plans ‘subdued’ memorial 3 years after quake

Associated Press

United States Deputy Secretary of State William Burns (left) arrives Jan. 11, 2013, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva for a meeting with U.N. Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov (both unseen) to find a politic solution for the crisis in Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria talks end in Geneva without solution

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

AP Exclusive: Google exec in NKorea openness call

By JEAN H. LEE - Associated Press

Tech delegation pressing NKorea Internet openness

By JEAN H. LEE - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

U.S. dismisses latest overture from Syria’s Assad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrian rebels gather around a fire as they plan patrols in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)

Fighting rages around Syrian air base

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a fire burning at the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded in an air raid on a gas station near the capital Damascus. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

U.N. estimates Syria death toll more than 60,000

By Bassem Mroue and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

U.N. puts death toll in Syria at more than 60,000

By Bassem Mroue and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

**FILE** Women wearing veils, as mandated by Islamist group Ansar Dine, walk along a street in Timbuktu, Mali, on Oct. 18, 2012. (Associated Press

Al Qaeda carves out own country in Mali

By Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.N. envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian foreign minister says Assad won’t go

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.N. Arab League deputy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.N. envoy, Moscow call for revival of Syria plan

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

SCHAEFER: U.S. should chill out on climate conferences

By Brett D. Schaefer

A Christian worshipper prays inside the Grotto at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Thousands of visitors flock to Bethlehem for Christmas

By Dalia Nammari - Associated Press

**FILE** Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks Aug. 22, 1998, during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan. (Associated Press)

Pakistan-Haqqani ties threaten to thwart U.S.

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

U.N. helicopter shot down in South Sudan; 4 dead

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press