Tag: World

Guzulnur, wife of Ilham Tohti arrives at Urumqi People's Intermediate Court to attend her husband's trial in Urumqi, China's northwestern region of Xinjiang Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. The defense in the separatism trial of Tohti, a Muslim Uighur scholar, sought to show Thursday that his classroom lectures and online commentary never amounted to a campaign to split his native region of Xinjiang away from China. (AP Photo/Jack Chang)

Minority scholar denies separatism at China trial

Jack Chang · September 19, 2014 4:08 am

An official reacts as counting continues in the Scottish Independence Referendum at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. From the capital of Edinburgh to the far-flung Shetland Islands, Scots embraced a historic moment - and the rest of the United Kingdom held its breath - after voters turned out in unprecedented numbers for an independence referendum that could end the country's 307-year union with England. (AP Photo/David Cheskin)

High turnout seen in Scotland’s independence vote

Jill Lawless · September 19, 2014 3:53 am

FILE - In this April 1, 2014 file photo, an observer on a Japan Coast Guard Gulfstream aircraft takes photos out of a window while searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Southern Indian Ocean. Crews will resume the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at the end of the month, and will begin the search in an area farther south than initially planned. Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan said on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 that the first of three ships planning to scour the Indian Ocean for the plane should begin searching Sept. 30. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool, File)

Hunt for missing Malaysia plane to resume

Kristen Gelineau · September 19, 2014 3:38 am

Family members of Hannah Witheridge, one of two slain British tourists, cry at the Royal Thai Police Headquarters before meeting with Thai police in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Police in Thailand said Wednesday that DNA samples from the bodies of two British tourists found bludgeoned on a resort island did not match any collected from 12 people who were among those in the area.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai military ruler apologizes for bikini comment

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2014 3:33 am

China’s famed tennis player Li Na announces her retirement on her microblog

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2014 3:05 am

Mexico boosts Los Cabos security after looting

mora-roca, de-jesusalba, ignacio-martinez · September 19, 2014 2:42 am

Maduro says foreign media behind fears of epidemic

Jorge Rueda · September 19, 2014 12:12 am

In this photo taken on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, a man dries his hands after washing them with chlorine outside a shop in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Shoppers crowded streets and markets in Sierra Leone's capital on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, stocking up for a three-day shutdown that authorities hope will slow the spread of the Ebola outbreak that is accelerating across West Africa. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)

Sierra Leone to shut down for 3 days to slow Ebola

Clarence RoyMacaulay · September 18, 2014 11:19 pm

UN warns of food shortages for Syrians

Trenton Daniel · September 18, 2014 11:06 pm

In this Sept. 15, 2014 photo, a woman who did not want to give her name for fear of reprisals, holds up a photograph of her late 15-year-old daughter Erika Gomez Gonzalez, at her home in Arcelia, Mexico. The woman says she witnessed her child's death when army soldiers fired first at an armed group at a grain warehouse on June 30 in the town of San Pedro Limon, Mexico. She said one man died in the initial shootout, when the rest of the gunmen surrendered on the promise they would not be hurt. She recalls that her daughter, who was face down in the ground with a bullet in her leg, was rolled over while she was still alive and shot more than half a dozen times in the chest. The mother said she arrived to the warehouse the day before the shooting, in an attempt to take her daughter home, but gang members wouldn't let her. (AP Photo/Eduardo Castillo)

Witness: 21 killed by Mexico army had surrendered

MARK STEVENSONE. EDUARDO CASTILLO · September 18, 2014 10:59 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 file photo, Syrian Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand guard at a refugee camp in Derike, Syria. Islamic State militiamen backed by tanks defiantly marched on in Syria, capturing 21 Kurdish villages even as the international community strains to assemble a coalition that might destroy them. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Militant gains illustrate plight of Syrian Kurds

Bassem Mroue · September 18, 2014 10:51 pm

In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 photo, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Speaking to a small group of reporters after meeting with his French counterpart on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 in Paris, Dempsey said it will take three or four months to begin the $500 million training program, which the House approved on Wednesday and sent to the Senate, where members of both parties predicted easy passage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

US: Syrian rebel training may take 12 months

Robert Burns · September 18, 2014 10:50 pm