Tag: World

Women sign a petition to force a constitutional assembly that would seek to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Hardliner opponents of Maduro began collecting signatures Saturday, to force a constitutional assembly and remove the leader before presidential elections in 2019. The Popular Will party led by jailed activist Leopoldo Lopez is launching the petition campaign. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans gather signatures against Maduro

Jorge Rueda · September 27, 2014 8:59 pm

Leader of Mexico’s 1968 student protests dies

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 8:48 pm

People kneel at confessional boxes before the start of a beatification ceremony in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. More than 100,000 Catholics from around the world are expected to attend the open air beatification ceremony Saturday of Opus Dei Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, the 2nd most important figure in the order after founder Jose Maria Escriva. (AP Photo/Paul White)

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Spain celebrates beatification of Opus Dei leader

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 8:08 pm

A sign asking for people not to stand is plastered on a wall across from the Island Clinic Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday Sept. 26, 2014. The outbreak of Ebola has overwhelmed the weak health systems of some of the world's poorest countries - there aren't enough doctors and nurses or even clinics to treat the spiraling number of cases.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine

Jonathan PayeLayleh · September 27, 2014 7:30 pm

Agila Saleh Essa Gwaider, President of the House of Representatives, of Libya, addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

National Security

Libya pleads for help in battling terror groups

Mohammed Daraghmeh · September 27, 2014 7:13 pm

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Yemen’s Shiite rebels agree to pull back, disarm

Ahmed AlHaj · September 27, 2014 6:55 pm

Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders kick off ‘Occupy Central’ protest in big challenge to Beijing

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 6:47 pm

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo provided by the U.S Air Force, an F-22A Raptor taxis in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility prior to strike operations in Syria. U.S. coalition-led warplanes struck Islamic State group militants near the northern Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, near the Turkish border for the first time Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, activists and a Kurdish official said. The coalition, which began its aerial campaign against Islamic State fighters in Syria early Tuesday, aims to roll back and ultimately crush the extremist group, which has created a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Russ Scalf)

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US-led planes strike fighters attacking Syria town

Bassem Mroue · September 27, 2014 5:54 pm

3 suspected Syria jihadis face charges in France

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 5:03 pm

Guinea-Bissau: 20 dead in land mine explosion

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 4:49 pm

7-year-old girl killed by mud crater explosion

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 4:36 pm

FILE - In this July 3, 2014 file photo, bullet holes and blood stains cover a wall above papers marking where bodies were found in an unfinished warehouse that was the site of a shootout between Mexican soldiers and alleged criminals on the outskirts of the village of San Pedro Limon, in Mexico state, Mexico. An army officer and seven soldiers who face disciplinary action for their participation in the killing of 22 people at this warehouse in rural southern Mexico belong to an army battalion with a history of incidents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Army unit in Mexico killings has past controversy

PETER ORSIKATHERINE CORCORAN · September 27, 2014 4:32 pm