Tag: World

Ebola a constant threat in reporting from Liberia

Krista Larson · October 3, 2014 7:56 pm

UN aid official laments ‘languishing’ NK funding

Washington Examiner · October 3, 2014 7:27 pm

In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 photo, an Iraqi Shiite militiamen takes cover after clashes with militants from the Islamic State group, near Qara Tappa, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad in Iraq's Diyala province. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Islamic State group downs Iraqi attack helicopter

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRAVIVIAN SALAMA · October 3, 2014 6:48 pm

Sweden's new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announces his new government in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonas Ekstromer, TT News Agency) SWEDEN OUT

Sweden to recognize Palestinian state

Karl Ritter · October 3, 2014 6:37 pm

A pro-Russian rebel tank rolls to take position near to the airport in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Artillery fire hit Donetsk airport Friday as Pro-Russian rebels are pressing to seize the key airport in eastern Ukraine despite fierce resistance from government forces.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Fighting rages around airport in eastern Ukraine

Mstyslav Chernov · October 3, 2014 6:27 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, President Mahmoud Abbas, of Palestine, addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. The Palestinians are asking the U.N. Security Council to set a deadline of November 2016 for an Israeli withdrawal from all Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 including East Jerusalem in a new push to achieve independence. The circulation of the draft resolution to council members follows Abbas' announcement to the U.N. General Assembly last Friday that he would ask the council to set a deadline for a pullout and dictate the ground rules for any talks with Israel.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Abbas to seek $4 billion for Gaza reconstruction

Karin Laub · October 3, 2014 6:22 pm

Iran says UN nuclear officials coming to Tehran

Washington Examiner · October 3, 2014 5:46 pm

An Injured woman is carried on a stretcher to a hospital for treatment in Patna, India, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Officials say at least 25 died in a stampede during the religious festival of Dussehra in eastern India. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

At least 32 die in stampede during Indian festival

Indrajit Singh · October 3, 2014 4:50 pm

Libya says 24 soldiers killed in Benghazi attacks

Washington Examiner · October 3, 2014 4:44 pm

Police take an injured man from the confrontation of pro-democracy student protesters and angry local residents in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Pushing and yelling, hundreds of Hong Kong residents tried to force pro-democracy activists from the streets they were occupying Friday as tensions rose in the weeklong protests that have shut down parts of the city. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

National Security

Hong Kong protesters cancel talks with government

JOANNA CHIUWENDY TANG · October 3, 2014 4:34 pm

Families of missing soldiers who were kidnapped by Islamic State militants and the Al-Nusra front, chant slogans as they hold portraits of Lebanese soldier Saif Thebian, during a demonstration to demand action to secure the captives release, in front the Lebanese government building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Militants, including from the Islamic State extremist group, seized around 30 soldiers and policemen after overrunning a Lebanese border town in early August. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Rights group: Lebanon imposing curfews on Syrians

Washington Examiner · October 3, 2014 4:02 pm

Father of UK journalist asks militants to free him

Washington Examiner · October 3, 2014 3:59 pm