Tag: World

French family suspected of waging jihad in Syria

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2014 2:46 pm

Immigrants from various countries queue outside Greece's Central Asylum Service in Athens on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. The United Nations refugee agency is calling on the European Union to overhaul its policy toward Syrian refugees, warning the number of fatal accidents at sea could rise further as winter approaches. Greek authorities says they expect a three-fold increase in the number of would-be immigrants and asylum seekers apprehended this year, compared with 2013, with most now coming from Syria. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

UN: EU should overhaul policy on Syrian refugees

Derek Gatopoulos · October 8, 2014 2:27 pm

Swiss museum to decide next month on art trove

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2014 1:55 pm

A pro-Russian rebel injured by shrapnel gets a field dressing after action near to the airport in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Despite a cease-fire declared a month ago between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, the biggest city in eastern Ukraine remains embroiled in fighting . (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

UN says hundreds killed during Ukraine cease-fire

Peter Leonard · October 8, 2014 1:39 pm

8 found alive 2 days after boat sank in Indonesia

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2014 1:34 pm

In this picture taken on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, Douglas Carswell, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for the Clacton by-election, poses for photographs outside his campaign offices in Clacton-on-Sea, England. The U.K. Independence Party is finding a warm welcome in this seaside town for its promise to curb immigration and leave the European Union. But the invasion washing up here isn't from across the water _ it's an army of UKIP supporters from around the country, flocking to Clacton-on-Sea to help the party make an electoral breakthrough that could change the face of British politics. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK anti-Europeans set for electoral breakthrough

Jill Lawless · October 8, 2014 1:26 pm

Activists interrupt Czech government briefing

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2014 1:06 pm

One of the six nooses are prepared for men sentenced to death at a jail in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Kabul police chief said Afghan authorities have executed five men convicted of armed robbery and gang rape in a case that galvanized the nation this summer. The five were convicted and sentenced to death Afghan last month. A sixth man who was executed on Wednesday was sentenced in a separate, unrelated murder case. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghanistan executes 5 men in gang rape case

Rahim Faiez · October 8, 2014 1:04 pm

Turtles make their way into the ocean upon their release in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. More than a thousand baby turtles were released during a campaign to save sea turtles. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Image of Asia: Olive ridley turtles head into sea

The Associated Press · October 8, 2014 1:04 pm

A rescue worker and a sniffer dog search for victims in the aftermath of a quake in Pojiao village of Jinggu county in southwest China's Yunnan province Wednesday Oct. 8, 2014. A strong, shallow earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.0 shook southwestern China overnight, killing at least one person, damaging buildings and prompting thousands to camp outside as aftershocks continued to strike the area, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Strong earthquake shakes southwestern China

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2014 1:01 pm

This undated file photo issued on Monday Oct. 6, 2014 by the Bristol Evening Post shows Shrien Dewani and Anni Dewani. The trial of British businessman Shrien Dewani, who is accused of ordering the killing of his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town in 2010, starts Monday Oct. 6, 2014, after a lengthy legal process to extradite him from the U.K. to South Africa. (AP Photo/Bristol Evening Post via PA)

Convicted killer testifies in SAfrica murder trial

Lynsey Chutel · October 8, 2014 12:03 pm

8 detained in China before Hong Kong poetry event

JACK CHANGISOLDA MORILLO · October 8, 2014 11:18 am