Tag: World

Berlin governing party chooses new mayor

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 2:47 pm

The normally functioning Avdeyevsky chemical plant is seen behind the main terminal of Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport hit by shelling during artillery battles between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government forces in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Ukraine's president on Friday hailed progress in Europe-brokered talks aimed at ensuring peace with Russia, with agreements nearing on a gas dispute and local elections in the east. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Soldiers’ rights activist jailed in Russia

Nataliya Vasilyeva · October 18, 2014 2:30 pm

WHO EBOLA

fduckettf.duckett · October 18, 2014 1:55 pm

Conservatives gaining force in Brazil Congress

Jenny Barchfield · October 18, 2014 1:13 pm

Yemen’s rebels attack home of Islamist, 12 killed

Ahmed AlHaj · October 18, 2014 1:08 pm

Polish official: alleged spies worked for Russia

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 12:00 pm

Iraq lawmakers approve nominees for interior, defense ministers amid Islamic State group fight

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 11:39 am

In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 photo, Hamza Hommos, 55, father of Lebanese policeman Wael Hommos, who was kidnapped by Islamic State militants and the Nusra Front, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in front of his tent set up for their sit-in protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. With all eyes on the Islamic State group's onslaught in Iraq and Syria, a less conspicuous but potentially just as explosive frontline with the extremists is emerging in Lebanon, where Lebanese soldiers and Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas are increasingly pulled into deadly fighting with the Sunni militants along the country's border with Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

National Security

Lebanon pulled into war with Islamic State group

ZEINA KARAMBASSEM MROUE · October 18, 2014 10:13 am

The recipiants of the 1995 Right Livelihood Award, also called the "alternative Nobel Prize", at a award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, December 8th 1995. L/R: Hungarian Andras Biro, Sulak Sivaraksa from Thailand, Bosnian Serb Mirko Pejanovic, and Carmel Budiardjo from England. (AP PHOTO/Eric Roxfelt)

Prominent Thai scholar faces anti-monarchy charge

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 10:12 am

Germany arrests 2 suspected IS supporters

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 9:59 am

National Security

Taliban attack kills 3 Afghan security troops

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 9:56 am

FILE - In this Thursday, July 5, 2012 file photo, people visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington. Comparisons between Ebola and AIDS have surfaced in mid-2014 as the Ebola outbreak escalated. But Ebola is not expected to ever be in the same league as AIDS in terms of infections and deaths, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Officials fear Ebola’s on AIDS path; some disagree

Mike Stobbe · October 18, 2014 9:20 am