Tag: World

Islamic extremist flees Germany despite ankle tag

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 4:21 pm

Oscar Pistorius rubs his eyes as he sits in court as the sentencing process entered a second day, Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday Oct. 14, 2014. Pistorius was being portrayed as a "poor victim" ahead of his sentencing for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, Pool)

Prosecutor: Pistorius offered cash after killing

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAGERALD IMRAY · October 14, 2014 4:19 pm

Health workers wearing protective gear wait to carry the body of a person suspected to have died from Ebola, in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday Oct. 13, 2014. Some nurses in Liberia defied calls for a strike on Monday and turned up for work at hospitals amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. In view of the danger of their work, members of the National Health Workers Association are demanding higher monthly hazard pay. The association has more than 10,000 members, though the health ministry says only about 1,000 of those are employed at sites receiving Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: 10,000 new Ebola cases per week could be seen

Maria Cheng · October 14, 2014 3:54 pm

Iraq officials: Shiite lawmaker Ahmed al-Khafaji among 23 killed in Baghdad checkpoint bombing

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 3:39 pm

Algerian police march to protest leadership

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 3:14 pm

Police clash with demonstrators outside parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, as deputies repeatedly voted down proposals to officially recognize a contentious WWII-era partisan group as national heroes. Thousands of Svoboda nationalist party supporters rallied in Kiev earlier in the day in celebration of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, but officials from the party denied vehemently that its members were involved in the unrest.(AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Clashes erupt outside Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev

Peter Leonard · October 14, 2014 3:06 pm

FILE - In this Monday, July 14, 2014 file photo, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, foreground left, holds a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, background right, on the second day of talks, in Vienna, Austria. With differences still unresolved and a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal nearing, Iran and the United States have a choice to make: Extend nuclear talks for the second time or face the risk of renewed confrontation and armed conflict. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool-File)

National Security

Analysis: Iran nuclear talks extension possible

George Jahn · October 14, 2014 3:02 pm

Hong Kong protests see weird, wonderful scenes

Sylvia Hui · October 14, 2014 2:36 pm

Iraqi officials: Suicide bomber rams his car into police checkpoint in Baghdad, killing 19

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 2:28 pm

Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria while fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 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

Activists: Airstrikes hit jihadi targets in Syria

LEFTERIS PITARAKISBASSEM MROUE · October 14, 2014 2:15 pm

An Indian boy walks inside his house damaged in the Oct. 7 firing between Indian and Pakistan at the border area of Treava village in Arnia sector, in Jammu, India, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. Exchanges of fire are common along the tense and heavily guarded frontier, but this week's flare-up, which left more than 20 people dead, is the most serious violation yet of a 2003 cease-fire agreement. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Pakistani, Indian armies discuss border clashes

Munir Ahmed · October 14, 2014 2:08 pm

Protesters, mostly supporters of LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders), stand next to a scribbled message during a candlelight protest to demand justice in the killing of a Filipino transgender Jeffrey "Jennifer" Laude, with a U.S. Marine as a possible suspect Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Dozens of activists burned a mock U.S. flag as they protested at the U.S. Embassy in Manila on Tuesday, demanding that Washington hand over to the Philippines a U.S. Marine suspected in the killing of a transgender Filipino that the demonstrators labeled a hate crime. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Protesters demand Philippine custody of US Marine

Jim Gomez · October 14, 2014 1:44 pm