family

Jailed American’s family asks Iran to drop bail (AP)

September 13th, 2010

FILE - In this May 21, 2010 file photo, Sarah Shourd, left, hugs her mother Nora Shourd, as Shane Bauer, second right, hugs his mother Cindy Hickey, during their meeting at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran. Iran announced Thursday that one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday to mark the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)AP - A day after Iran offered a detained American woman a chance for release on $500,000 bail, her family countered with a request Monday to drop or lower the…

NKorea proposes family reunion talks with SKorea (AP)

September 11th, 2010

AP - North Korea has offered South Korea a new round of reunions for families separated by the Korean War, state media said Saturday.

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Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds (AP)

September 5th, 2010

In this photos provided by Chile's government, trapped miner Claudio Yanez talks to his relatives during a video conference at the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Chile's government)AP - While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.


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Chilean family survives quake, faces mine collapse (AP)

August 27th, 2010

Carola Narvaez, wife of Raul Bustos, one of 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, stands in a shelter for relatives outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010.  Narvaez and her husband survived Chile's massive February earthquake. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Carola Narvaez breathed in the Atacama Desert’s cold dawn air and slowly began to exhale the story of how her family survived a devastating earthquake and worked to…

Captured soldier’s family marching to Jerusalem (AP)

June 27th, 2010

An Israeli man holds a banner of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit during a rally calling for his release, near Beit Kama, southern Israel, Saturday June 26, 2010. Friday, June 25, 2010 marked four years since Schalit was captured by Hamas. The Hebrew on the banner reads 'Gilad is still alive.'  (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)AP - The family of a captured Israeli soldier set out Sunday on a 12-day march to Jerusalem to press Israeli leaders to make a deal with his Hamas captors…

Bin Laden hunter’s family worried about his health (AP)

June 16th, 2010

This Jan. 2006 photo provided Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by the Larimer County, Colo. Sheriff's Office shows Gary Brooks Faulkner, after he was arrested on a Compulsory Insurance charge. Faulkner, armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword, was detained Tuesday in northern Pakistan as he tried to cross the border into Afghanistan on a mission to avenge the 9/11 attacks and kill Osama bin Laden, police said. Faulkner, a 51-year-old construction worker, also was carrying Christian literature and a small amount of hashish. (AP Photo/Larimer County Sheriff's Office)AP - An American construction worker detained in Pakistan on what authorities said was an armed solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden has been examined by a doctor, Pakistani…

Al-Qaida: No. 3 official killed with family (AP)

June 1st, 2010

This image released by the Site Intelligence Group made from undated video shows Sheikh Sa'id al-Masri, also known as Mustafa al-Yazid. In what could be one of the hardest blows to al-Qaida since the U.S. campaign against the terrorist organization began, the group's No. 3, al-Masri, is believed to be dead, killed by a U.S. Predator drone strike, a U.S. official said Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Site Intelligence Group) MANDATORY CREDIT: SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP; ON-SCREEN LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED; NO SALESAP - Al-Qaida announced Monday that its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family — perhaps one of the most severe blows to…

Dutch boy told family died in Libya plane crash (AP)

May 14th, 2010

9 Year-old Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board that crashed on landing Wednesday, May 12 at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Relatives broke the news to a Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya that his parents and brother died in the disaster,…

NKorea says imprisoned American speaks to family (AP)

April 30th, 2010

In this photo taken on Jan. 12, 2010, American Aijalon Mahli Gomes, whose identification was made by Seoul-based activist Jo Sung-rae, participates in a rally organized by Jo denouncing North Korean's human rights conditions at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea. The American, from Boston, imprisoned in North Korea was allowed to speak to his family by telephone Friday April 30, 2010, state media said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - An American imprisoned in North Korea was allowed to speak to his family by telephone Friday, but Pyongyang’s state media and his family provided few details and no…

Ousting a Kyrgyz leader means ousting his family (AP)

April 14th, 2010

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake, left, and Kyrgyz Interim Leader Roza Otunbayeva at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Blake's visit to meet with the interim authorities underlined Washington's strong concern about stability in Kyrgyzstan, where the United States has an air base that is key to military operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Nina Gorshkova)AP - The deposed president of Kyrgyzstan has refused to go quietly until the safety of his family is guaranteed. But Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s family includes two sons, five brothers and…