Tag: World

Poland’s Sikorski confirmed as parliament speaker

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 1:25 pm

A boy carries a cot through flood waters at Krishnai village in Goalpara district of northeastern Assam state, India, Wednesday, Sept.24, 2014.Landslides and flash floods triggered by two days of heavy rain killed dozens of people in India's remote northeast. In Assam's worst-hit district of Goalpara, 90 villages have been submerged and more than 150,000 people have been asked to leave their homes for higher ground. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

73 dead in landslides, floods in northeast India

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 1:25 pm

Romania puts ex-communist prison chief on trial

Alison Mutler · September 24, 2014 12:27 pm

Poland tests border protection in major exercise

Monika Scislowska · September 24, 2014 12:23 pm

Police mix-up frees 3 suspected jihadis in France

Jamey Keaten · September 24, 2014 11:59 am

Poor support Brazil’s president in re-election bid

Stan Lehman · September 24, 2014 11:55 am

Volcano in western Indonesia erupts again

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 11:17 am

FILE - Director and producer George Sluizer attends a news conference for the film Dark Blood at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, in this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 file photo. Sluizer, the Dutch filmmaker who directed River Phoenix's last movie, "Dark Blood," died at age 82. Organizers of the Netherlands Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival said Sluizer died Saturday Sept. 20, 2014 "after a long illness," but did not specify the cause of death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Dutch director George Sluizer dead at 82

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 10:56 am

In this Feb. 4, 2013 photo, Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar of China's Uighur minority, gestures as he speaks during an interview at his home in Beijing, China. A Chinese court on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 imposed a harsh life sentence on Ilham Tohti, who championed the country's Uighur minority, the most severe penalty in a decade for anyone in China convicted of illegal political speech. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Uighur scholar in China to appeal life sentence

Jack Chang · September 24, 2014 10:56 am

Smoke rises after shelling over a checkpoint marked with flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Mortar fire struck an apartment block in the rebel-held city of Donetsk overnight, yet another violation of a cease-fire declared weeks earlier between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents. The attack came even as both sides claimed to be pulling back heavy artillery to set up a buffer zone. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Cease-fire in eastern Ukraine violated

Darko Vojinovic · September 24, 2014 10:52 am

Jordan acquits radical cleric of terrorism charges

Karin Laub · September 24, 2014 10:49 am

Portuguese nurses strike over pay, working hours

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 10:44 am