Tag: World

Raw: Baghdad Tightens Security Due to IS Threat

Washington Examiner · October 11, 2014 4:24 pm

National Security

Suspected US drone strike kills 2 in Afghanistan

RAHIM FAIEZZARAR KHAN · October 11, 2014 4:20 pm

Egypt completes restoration of famed Coptic church

Washington Examiner · October 11, 2014 3:43 pm

Kurdish Rabia Ali, right, accompanied by her son Ali Mehmud, left, mourn on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, at the grave of her son Seydo Mehmud 'Curo' , a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday, Oct. 7. 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 struggle to defend besieged Syrian town

Ryan Lucas · October 11, 2014 3:26 pm

Pro-democracy students do their homework at a study area at a main road in the occupied areas in Hong Kong's Admiralty district, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. Students and activists demanding a greater say in choosing the city's leader have vowed to stay until the government responds, while the government has repeatedly urged protesters to withdraw from the streets and allow the city to return to normal. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong protesters petition Chinese President Xi

Sylvia Hui · October 11, 2014 3:17 pm

Medical practitioners wearing protective clothing work while Javier Limon, the husband of the nursing assistant infected with Ebola, is seen through a window, down left, while another isolated girl talks on her phone inside an isolated ward on the sixth floor of the the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. A Spanish hospital official says the nursing assistant infected with Ebola is "stable," hours after authorities described her condition as critical. She is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. She contracted the virus while helping treat a Spanish missionary who became infected in West Africa, and later died. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Ebola: 3 more people under observation in Spain

Harold Heckle · October 11, 2014 2:44 pm

Egypt court sentences 3 Islamists to 15 years each

Washington Examiner · October 11, 2014 2:33 pm

Bosnian voters bleak over untapped flood aid

Aida Cerkez · October 11, 2014 1:40 pm

In this picture taken Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, Syrian refugee Mohammad Suleimane walks over the beach at the district Travemuende of north German city Luebeck. The young barber from Damascus was the only one of 13 family members to survive when his boat sank, killing more than 200 refugees a year ago Saturday, an anniversary that comes as Europe faces a new wave of migrants making the perilous crossing from North Africa to the Italian island of Lampedusa. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

After shipwreck, refugee finds despair in Europe

Kirsten Grieshaber · October 11, 2014 1:36 pm

10 dead after boat collides with ship off Guinea

Washington Examiner · October 11, 2014 1:27 pm

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah center, speaks to people during his visit to the Gaza's neighborhood of Shijaeyih, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Members of the new Palestinian unity government assembled in Gaza on Thursday for their first Cabinet session in the war-battered territory, a largely symbolic meeting meant to mark the end of absolute Hamas control of the coastal strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

National Security

AP Analysis: In wake of Gaza war, hints of change

Dan Perry · October 11, 2014 1:03 pm

Liberia women walk past a sign warning people of the deadly Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The number of people killed in the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: 41 UN staffers under Ebola observation

Jonathan PayeLayleh · October 11, 2014 11:46 am