Tag: World

FILE - In this Tuesday, March. 4, 2014 file photo, Head of the Iran's Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani speaks during a biannual meeting of the assembly in Tehran, Iran. Kani, the head of Iran's most influential clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader, has died. He was 83. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Head of Iran’s chief clerical body dead at 83

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 10:39 am

Tin Aye, chairman of Myanmar Union Election Commission, talks to journalists as he attends coordination and cooperation workshop of Union Election Commission and political parties at a hotel Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014, in Yangon, Myanmar. Tin Aye made the announcement at a meeting with political party members in Yangon. He said international and local observers would be invited to witness the election, to be held in late October or early November of next year. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar says 2015 election won’t be delayed

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 8:30 am

Oscar Pistorius, left front, greets his uncle Arnold Pistorius, right, and other family members as he is led out of court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Pistorius received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide by judge Thokozile Masipais for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year (AP Photo/Herman Verwey, Pool)

Pistorius out of Paralympic events for 5 years

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 6:55 am

Driver shot dead after he hits 2 Canadian soldiers

SEAN FARRELLROB GILLIES · October 21, 2014 5:33 am

Taliban attack kills 4 Afghan soldiers in Kabul

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 4:09 am

In this Oct. 13, 2014 photo, young wrestlers form lines at the start of their practice in a park in Old Havana, Cuba. The children are candidates to enter the Sports Initiation School, the first stage of sports training in Cuba, and specialize in wrestling. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Photos: Children learn wrestling in Old Havana

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 4:03 am

Panamanian Supreme Court judge Alejandro Moncada Luna, center, leaves the National Assembly building after appearing in front of a committee after being suspended on corruption allegations, in Panama City, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Justice Moncada Luna linked to former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was suspended in a landmark corruption case that alleges that he profited from his ties to the former conservative leader. As part of the ruling by lawmakers leading an impeachment probe, Moncada's assets were temporarily frozen. He was also ordered to turn over his passport and remain confined to his residence. (AP Photo)

Panama suspends Supreme Court judge for corruption

Juan Zamorano · October 21, 2014 3:03 am

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2005 file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam addresses his audience at a book launch in Sydney. Whitlam, a flamboyant Australian prime minister and controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis, died on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, his children said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Former Australia Prime Minister Gough Whitlam dies

Rod McGuirk · October 21, 2014 2:00 am

Brazil's President and Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff flashes a heart hand gesture during a rally for her re-election campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Rousseff and her challenger Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party are in a tight election contest, that culminates Oct. 26 when upward of 140 million Brazilians are expected to go to the polls and decide who'll be the next leader of the globe's fifth most populous nation and Latin America's biggest economy. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Poll: Brazil’s leader gains ground in tight race

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 1:10 am

Harvard student stuck in Mexico gets new US visa

Elliot Spagat · October 21, 2014 12:47 am

White House opposes Nazi benefit payments

risingrandy-herschaft, richard-lardnerdavid · October 21, 2014 12:01 am

If no checks, more Ebola cases might leave Africa

Maria Cheng · October 20, 2014 10:37 pm