Tag: World

In this Sept. 26, 2014 photo, Thai actress Pimthong Washirakom poses after an interview in Bangkok, Thailand. Up-and-coming starlet Pimthong's debut role as a dangerously beautiful "bad girl" who gets raped in the soap "The Rising Sun" aired last month. Pimthong said that filming of the scene, in which a police detective locks her in his office and rapes her, took place after the girl's rape on the train in July. As the cameras rolled, she broke down in tears. A recent real-life rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train in Thailand has focused national outrage on Thai popular culture, and particularly TV soaps for sending messages that trivialize - and some say encourage - rape. (AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone)

Thai soaps trigger outcry over romanticizing rape

JOCELYN GECKERTHANYARAT DOKSONE · October 17, 2014 12:21 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, Gordon Kamara, left, is sprayed by Konah Deno after they loaded six patients suspected to have been infected by the Ebola virus into their ambulance in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia. Ebola has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa and wreaked havoc on the region, but some Africans see a bright side: The virus has been limited to five countries. It has even been beaten back in two of those countries. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN: Ebola death toll rising to 4,500 this week

John Heilprin · October 16, 2014 11:44 pm

Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad impose Ebola travel bans

David McFadden · October 16, 2014 11:33 pm

Paraguayan journalist shot to death in drug hotbed

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2014 11:32 pm

Venezuela jubilant over UN Security Council win

Hannah Dreier · October 16, 2014 11:25 pm

US official says Mideast Quartet to meet next week

EDITH M. LEDERERMATTHEW LEE · October 16, 2014 11:21 pm

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for re-election with the Workers Party, waves to photographers during a commercial break as she attends a presidential candidate debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Rousseff will face Aecio Neves, candidate with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, in a presidential runoff on Sunday, Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil presidential contenders battle in debate

Brad Brooks · October 16, 2014 11:17 pm

UN chief: Fund to fight Ebola has $100,000 in bank

Edith Lederer · October 16, 2014 10:58 pm

2 children hurt in petrol bomb attack in Ireland

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2014 10:55 pm

Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko arrives to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders in a bid to escape Russia's worst crisis with the West since the Cold War. Putin on Friday will discuss Ukraine over breakfast with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and key European leaders on the sidelines of the 10th ASEM summit in Milan. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she expects to discuss a Ukraine cease-fire deal signed last month, which has reduced hostilities but failed to stop all fighting. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Putin keeps Merkel waiting in Milan

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVCOLLEEN BARRY · October 16, 2014 10:52 pm

Greece: 18 far-right lawmakers face trial

Nicholas Paphitis · October 16, 2014 10:51 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)

Egypt’s foray into Libya underlines its concerns

MAGGIE MICHAELOMAR ALMOSMARI · October 16, 2014 10:24 pm