Tag: World

Houthi Shiite rebels collect blankets ahead of remove tents erected two months ago, at a sit-in in a main road leading to the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemeni Shiite rebels overrun al-Qaida stronghold

ahmed-alhajj · October 17, 2014 7:27 pm

UN now training Ebola survivors to help with care

Cara Anna · October 17, 2014 7:09 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

Former Iraqi pilots train IS fighters on MiG jets

Diaa Hadid · October 17, 2014 7:08 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders in Milan, northern Italy, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to get relief from Western economic sanctions imposed since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its support for a pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine. To that end, he has scheduled a series of meetings on the sidelines of a two-day ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, POOL)

Ukrainian, Russian leaders sound optimistic note

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVCOLLEEN BARRY · October 17, 2014 7:05 pm

A healthcare worker in protective gear is seen at an Ebola treatment center in the west of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. The deadly Ebola virus has infected two people in what was the last untouched district in Sierra Leone, the government said Thursday, a setback in efforts to stop the spread of the disease in one of the hardest-hit countries. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)

UN: We botched response to the Ebola outbreak

Maria Cheng · October 17, 2014 6:47 pm

Iran border guards kill 1 from Pakistani patrol

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 6:38 pm

Palestinians suggest banning Jews from holy site

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 6:09 pm

Voters queue to cast their votes at a polling station, in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Voting in Mozambique's national election began peacefully Wednesday. The election comes just months after a peace accord between the ruling Frelimo party and the opposition, Renamo, ended nearly two years of sporadic fighting in the north of the country. (AP Photo/Ferhat Momade)

Mozambique elections declared free and fair

EMMANUEL CAMILLOLYNSEY CHUTEL · October 17, 2014 6:08 pm

A pro-democracy protester carries a banner that reads: "bad police" down an occupied section of the Mong Kok district in Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Student-led pro-democracy protests have roiled Hong Kong for 20 days - and there remains no clear endgame to the political crisis, the most tumultuous in this semiautonomous Chinese city since it returned to Chinese rule. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

In Hong Kong, no endgame for chaotic protests

SYLVIA HUIKELVIN CHAN · October 17, 2014 6:00 pm

New Paris landmark: Giant sex toy or an Xmas tree?

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 5:27 pm

In this image made from AP video filmed on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, Manal Mousa, 25, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at her family home in the Galilee village of Deir Al-Assad, northern Israel. Her goal is to win Arab Idol, the Arab world's premiere television song competition. The journey Mousa and another singer Haitham Khalaily, 24, have taken from their villages in Israel to the competition in Lebanon could comprise a television drama of its own - featuring travel to an enemy country, Israeli security interrogations, and the complicated identity crisis of Israel's Arabs. (AP Photo/AP video)

Arabs from Israel risk arrest for ‘Arab Idol’ show

Areej Hazboun · October 17, 2014 5:27 pm

UK police charge 5 over alleged London terror plot

Danica Kirka · October 17, 2014 5:13 pm