Tag: World

Australia readies for possible Ebola outbreak

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2014 3:36 am

Ken Tsang, a member of a local pro-democracy political party shows his wound outside a police station after a clash between protesters and police in an occupied area near government headquarters in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers drove protesters from an underpass in the dead of night Wednesday, the worst violence since the street demonstrations for greater democracy began more than two weeks ago. Local television channel TVB showed footage of around six plainclothes police officers taking a man around the side of a building, pushing him to the ground and kicking him. Local legislators and activists identified the protester as Ken Tsang, a member of a local pro-democracy political party. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong police hold back from removing barriers

KELVIN CHANSYLVIA HUI · October 16, 2014 3:00 am

Masked student occupy a toll booth as students block a main highway to protest the disappearance of 43 missing college students in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Mexican police expanded their search for the missing students Wednesday after investigators determined that 28 sets of human remains recovered from a mass grave were not those of any of the youths. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico widens search for 43 missing students

Christopher Sherman · October 16, 2014 2:23 am

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela: Colombia paramilitary aided in killing

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2014 2:20 am

NKorea praises rights record in draft resolution

Cara Anna · October 15, 2014 11:24 pm

Trinidad says ‘several’ citizens aid Islamic group

Tony Fraser · October 15, 2014 11:04 pm

From left, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are photographed as they participate in a trilateral meeting in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. The three will try and advance nuclear talks and meet the target date of Nov. 24. But with less than six weeks left until Nov. 24, there may be no alternative than to prolonging them. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

National Security

What’s at stake in Iran nuclear talks?

BRADLEY KLAPPERGEORGE JAHN · October 15, 2014 9:38 pm

Pranvera Abazi kisses her son Erion Zena during their reunion at Kosovo's main airport upon his return to Kosovo's capital Pristina on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Kosovo's Prime Minister says the country's intelligence and security forces have returned an 8-year-old ethnic Albanian boy to his mother in Kosovo after he was taken by his jihadi father to Syria. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo frees 8-year-old from Syria captivity

Visar Kryeziu · October 15, 2014 9:33 pm

A Bahraini anti-government protester holds up a picture of jailed Saudi Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during clashes with riot police in Sanabis, Bahrain, a suburb of the capital Manama, Wednesday night, Oct. 15, 2014. The well-known Shiite cleric was sentenced to death Wednesday by a court in Saudi Arabia, sparking fears of renewed unrest from his supporters in the kingdom and neighboring Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Saudi court convicts outspoken Shiite cleric

Aya Batrawy · October 15, 2014 9:13 pm

Healthcare workers prepare medicines for Patients at an Ebola treatment centre in Hastings, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Some doctors in countries hit hardest by the deadly Ebola disease decline to operate on pregnant women for fear the virus could spread. Governments face calls from frightened citizens to bar travel to and from the afflicted region. Meanwhile, the stakes get higher as more people get sick, highlighting a tricky balance between protecting people and preserving their rights in a global crisis. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)

Ebola crisis puts pressure on human rights

Christopher Torchia · October 15, 2014 9:11 pm

People gather on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, to watch fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, over the border, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

National Security

Kurds hold their own against militants in Syria

LEFTERIS PITARAKISZEINA KARAM · October 15, 2014 8:56 pm

Head of USAID, Rajiv Shah, second, right, inspects a newly built Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. The Ebola outbreak that was first identified in March has devastated Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. More than 4,400 deaths have been linked to Ebola so far and even that may be an underestimate, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

USAID says Ebola nations following right approach

BOUBACAR DIALLOPAUL SCHEMM · October 15, 2014 8:55 pm