Tag: World

Iraq imposes curfew in Ramadi, fearing militants

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRASAMEER N. YACOUB · October 17, 2014 11:35 pm

Journalists protest to demand justice for their murdered colleague Pablo Medina, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The 53-year-old reporter was killed Thursday in a crime-ridden northern area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling. He worked for the newspaper ABC Color and focused on investigations exposing corruption and drug traffickers. The newspaper where Medina worked said Friday that he was investigating drug gangs with suspected links to Paraguayan politicians. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Slain Paraguayan journalist was probing drug gangs

Pedro Servin · October 17, 2014 11:22 pm

Argentina leader ordered to rest for 48 hours

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 10:48 pm

FILE - In this Thursday May 30, 2013 file photo, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman speaks during an interview in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's government and Islamic extremists from Boko Haram have agreed to an immediate cease-fire, officials said Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The fate of more than 200 missing schoolgirls abducted by the insurgents six months ago remains unclear. Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said their release is still being negotiated. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Nigeria, Boko Haram agree to immediate cease-fire

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 10:06 pm

FILE - This undated image posted on Aug. 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters of the Islamic State group waving the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is test flying, with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots, several fighter jets captured earlier from air bases belonging to the Syrian military, a Syrian activist group said Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The report by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not be independently confirmed, and U.S. official said they had no reports of Islamic State group militants flying jets in support of their forces on the ground.(AP Photo/ Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

National Security

Activists: Islamic State group may have warplanes

VIVIAN SALAMAZEINA KARAM · October 17, 2014 9:06 pm

Bono says he wears sunglasses due to glaucoma

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 8:55 pm

KOBANI AERIAL

fduckettf.duckett · October 17, 2014 8:50 pm

A fire truck drives towards smoke caused by an attack by Islamist militias during clashes with forces led by renegade Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Islamist militias fought Wednesday with forces loyal to Hifter, who vows to seize the eastern city of Benghazi, as a top militia commander accused Egypt of bombing his positions with warplanes. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Sheikhy)

National Security

In Libya’s Benghazi, mood of resignation over war

OMAR ALMOSMARIMAGGIE MICHAEL · October 17, 2014 8:34 pm

Aecio Neves, who is running for president with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, kisses the hands of his former rival candidate Marina Silva, of the Brazilian Socialist Party, who supported Neves after she finished third in the first-round of elections, at a campaign event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Neves will face Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in a presidential runoff on Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Ousted Brazil candidate meets, endorses challenger

Stan Lehman · October 17, 2014 8:31 pm

Mexican activists under fire after blogger kidnap

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 8:25 pm

Protesters cry as some of the protesters are beaten by riot police in the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. New scuffles broke out Friday night between Hong Kong riot police and pro-democracy activists in a district where police cleared protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong police arrest 26 amid street clashes

SYLVIA HUIKELVIN CHAN · October 17, 2014 7:49 pm

A group of Japanese lawmakers follow a Shinto priest to pay respect for the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine during an annual autumn festival in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko).

Japan PM sends offerings to war shrine

Mari Yamaguchi · October 17, 2014 7:31 pm