Tag: World

A Thai woman prays at Sririraj hospital where King Bhumibol Adulyadej is being treated Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's 86-year-old king underwent surgery to have his gallbladder removed, and doctors said the procedure went well and the monarch's overall condition had improved since he was hospitalized three days ago, a palace statement said Monday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

86-year-old Thai king has gallbladder surgery

Washington Examiner · October 6, 2014 12:40 pm

Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party wins election

Veselin Toshkov · October 6, 2014 12:09 pm

FILE - In this May 16, 1989 file photo, Beijing University students relax in Tiananmen Square as their hunger strike for democracy begins its fourth day in Beijing. The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public mention of it. In this former British colony, hundreds of thousands attend candlelight vigils each anniversary to commemorate the grim end to the Beijing movement that was vanquished before many of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong's streets were even born. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami, File)

Tiananmen legacy looms over Hong Kong protests

ELAINE KURTENBACHLOUISE WATT · October 6, 2014 11:42 am

General Secretary of the Synod Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri bows as he welcomes Pope Francis for the morning session of a two-week synod on family issues including contraception, pre-marital sex and divorce, at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. 200 cardinals and bishops from around the world have arrived in Rome for the meeting. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope seeks frank, fearless debate on family issues

Nicole Winfield · October 6, 2014 11:26 am

In this Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 photo, a Palestinian flag waves as a man walks over the rubble of houses that were destroyed in the recent Israel-Hamas war, in Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip. More than five weeks after the war in the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed or badly damaged in the fighting still live in classrooms, storefronts and other crowded shelters. Yet despite their pressing needs, reconstruction efforts appear stymied by a continued Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of Gaza and an unresolved power struggle between the Islamic militant group Hamas and Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinian unity Cabinet to meet in Gaza

Washington Examiner · October 6, 2014 9:39 am

Uganda confirms Marburg fever recently killed man

Washington Examiner · October 6, 2014 9:27 am

People take an escalator to head to work as the pro-democracy student protesters sleep on a roadside in the occupied areas surrounding the government complex in Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Hong Kong's civil servants returned to work and schools were reopening Monday as a massive pro-democracy protest that has occupied much of the city center for the week dwindled. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong protests subside after tumultuous week

SYLVIA HUILOUIS WATT · October 6, 2014 8:47 am

At a glance: The search for Flight 370

Washington Examiner · October 6, 2014 7:58 am

In this Sept. 8, 2014, photo, a Syrian refugee man carries a box of syrah grapes being picked in a vineyard of the Chateau Kefraya winery in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. In Syria and Lebanon, boutique wineries mainly run by Christians have endured despite decades of unrest and the fact that Islam, the majority faith in the region, forbids both the production and consumption of alcohol. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrians, Lebanese produce wine in ferment of war

Diaa Hadid · October 6, 2014 6:23 am

Typhoon washes 3 US airmen out to sea in Japan

garces-bordallo, mari-yamaguchigrace · October 6, 2014 5:33 am

Cricketers fight for foothold in baseball-mad Cuba

AnneMarie Garcia · October 6, 2014 4:26 am

Brazil’s Rousseff to face Neves in runoff vote

barchfieldstan-lehman, brad-brooksjenny · October 6, 2014 2:48 am