Tag: World

China, Vietnam patch ties after territory disputes

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 8:45 am

In this handout photo provided by the Nepalese army, rescue team members carry the body of an avalanche victim at Thorong La pass area in Nepal, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Rescuers widened their search Friday for trekkers stranded since a series of blizzards and avalanches battered the Himalayas in northern Nepal early this week, leaving at least 29 foreigners and locals dead, officials said. (AP Photo/Nepalese Army)

Nepal official: Most stranded trekkers rescued

BiNaj Gurubacharya · October 18, 2014 7:43 am

Police officers stand around a collapsed ventilation grate in Seongnam, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. Sixteen people watching an outdoor pop concert in South Korea fell 20 meters (60 feet) to their deaths Friday when a ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed, officials said. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

S. Korea concert planner found dead after 16 die

Kim TongHyung · October 18, 2014 5:32 am

In this photo released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, kidnapped German nationals Stefan Okonek, right, and female companion Henrike Dielen disembark from the Philippine Navy vessel upon arrival at dawn Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, at the Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. Okonek and Dielen, who had been kidnapped and held for six months in the southern Philippines were released Friday by the militant group just hours after it had threatened to behead one of them if no ransom payment was made, the Philippine defense chief said. (AP Photo/Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Philippine militants free 2 kidnapped Germans

Oliver Teves · October 18, 2014 5:01 am

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, in Washington. Obama signed an executive order to improve security measures for government credit and debit cards. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

News Guide: A look at latest Ebola developments

The Associated Press · October 18, 2014 4:34 am

This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Gonzalo taken from the International Space Station by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst as it moves toward Bermuda on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Hurricane Gonzalo roared toward Bermuda as a powerful Category 3 storm on Friday. (AP Photo/Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA)

Center of Hurricane Gonzalo moves over Bermuda

JOSH BALLDANICA COTO · October 18, 2014 3:19 am

Jeff Hulbert, of Annapolis, Md., protests U.S. handling of Ebola cases outside of the White House Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WHO faulted for Ebola failures as Obama taps czar

MARIA CHENGADAM GELLER · October 18, 2014 2:55 am

In this aerial photo provided by the Department of National Defense Maritime Forces Pacific, a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter flies near a Russian container ship, carrying hundreds of tons of fuel drifting without power in rough seas off British Columbia's northern coast on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The Canadian Forces' joint rescue coordination center in Victoria said the Russian carrier Simushir lost power late Thursday night off Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, as it was making its way from Washington state to Russia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Department of National Defense Maritime Forces Pacific)

Container ship adrift off British Columbia coast

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 2:40 am

Syrian Kurdish fighter’s long battle in Syrian war

LEFTERIS PITARAKISBURAK SAYIN · October 18, 2014 2:40 am

Demonstrators protest the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Investigators determined that 28 sets of human remains recovered from a mass grave discovered last weekend outside Iguala, in Guerrero state, were not those of any of the youths who haven't been seen since being confronted by police in that city Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexicans protest in Acapulco over missing students

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 2:06 am

Rescue workers stand around a collapsed ventilation grate at an outdoor theater in Seongnam, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Fourteen people were feared dead Friday after the ventilation grate collapsed during a concert by popular girlsâ band 4Minute, officials said. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Young-geun) KOREA OUT

16 dead in accident at South Korean concert

Kim TongHyung · October 18, 2014 1:55 am

Jorge Perez, the head of Cuba's top tropical medicine institute, points to a map, showing the location of the field hospital set up to train doctors in the fight against Ebola, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Cuba has sent 165 doctors to Sierra Leone and plans to send 296 more to Liberia and Guinea, the largest commitment of medical personnel so far. Perez says Cuba is ready to send more doctors as long as there is enough funding and infrastructure to support them. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Head of Cuba’s Ebola effort expects more aid soon

Michael Weissenstein · October 18, 2014 1:19 am