Tag: World

Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress speaks with the Associated press during an interview ahead of Sunday's planed demonstration against Anti-Semitism in Berlin, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. Jewish organizations in Germany calling for a demonstration against Anti-Semitism in Berlin for Sunday, Sept. 14, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the main speaker. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Jewish leader: far-right votes risk nations’ name

Geir Moulson · September 13, 2014 11:50 am

In this Sunday, July 6, 2014 file photo, an Italian Alpine soldier plays a homage with his trumpet to the fallen soldiers of World War I, ahead of a concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I at the Redipuglia memorial in Northeastern Italy. The largest Italian war memorial, Redipuglia encases 100,000 Italian soldiers killed in battle, 60,000 of those whose identity remains unknown and 40,000 who are identified, sometimes with just an initial. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini, File)

Pope urges world to shed apathy toward new threats

COLLEEN BARRYLUCA BRUNO · September 13, 2014 11:12 am

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, shakes hands with former abductee Hitomi Soga as Shigeru Yokota, center, father of Megumi Yokota who was also abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, looks on during a rally against North Korea's abductions, in Tokyo, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. Prime Minister Abe is turning up the pressure on North Korea to answer questions over the fate of possibly hundreds of Japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by the North's agents in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

National Security

Japan pushes North Korea to resolve abductions

Eric Talmadge · September 13, 2014 9:41 am

In this image made from video taken on Sept. 8, 2014, Kurdish Peshmerga walk on a street in Gwer in northern Iraq. Misspelled graffiti on walls pockmarked by bullets and torn up propaganda stickers make up the few remaining traces of the Islamic State group in this northern Iraqi ghost town after Kurdish forces finally managed to free it from militant control. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic via AP video)

After Iraqi battles, residents choose displacement

MARKO DROBNJAKOVICVIVIAN SALAMA · September 13, 2014 9:27 am

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. EDT shows two tropical systems to the south of the Baja Peninsula. Tropical Depression Sixteen-E is moving northward and isn't expected to strengthen. Tropical Storm Odile is moving westward and is expected to become a Hurricane in the coming hours. Over the mainland, mostly sunny skies dominate from the Pacific Northwest through California and the desert southwest. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

Tropical Storm Odile moving north off south Mexico

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2014 9:11 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, displaced Syrians who fled their home in their country stand near tents that were burned by gunmen at a Syrian refugee camp in the village of Brital in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Syrians like them are becoming victims of a wave of revenge attacks carried out after one of several Lebanese soldiers captured by militants from Syria in a cross-border raid was beheaded by jihadists earlier this month. The killing of the Shiite soldier by Sunni extremists has aggravated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, which is bitterly divided over the war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrians attacked in Lebanon after soldiers killed

Bassem Mroue · September 13, 2014 7:39 am

Soldiers defeat Islamic fighters in north Nigeria

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2014 5:30 am

Separatism trial set for Chinese minority scholar

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2014 2:55 am

In this photo released by the Turkish Presidency Press Office, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speak before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Kerry is in the region to speak with leaders about strategies to address the threat from the Islamic State, a militant extremist group. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that the US would provide an additional $500 million in humanitarian aid to victims of the war in Syria, bringing total American assistance to $2.9 billion since the start of the conflict in 2011. (AP Photo/Turkish Presidency)

Cobbling coalition for Iraq, Syria no easy task

LARA JAKESDESMOND BUTLER · September 13, 2014 2:49 am

China issues travel warning for the Philippines

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2014 2:11 am

China's Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization, WHO, and Roberto Morales Ojeda, right, Minister of Public Health, Cuba attend a press conference about the support to Ebola affected countries, at the headquarters of the WHO, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Cuba's health ministry said Friday it is sending more than 160 health workers to help stop the raging Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, providing a much-needed injection of medical expertise in a country where health workers are in short supply. (AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)

Cuba sending dozens of doctors to fight Ebola

Maria Cheng · September 12, 2014 10:06 pm

In this April 15, 2014 photo, an Anti-Balaka Christian fighter stands on the front of a looted Muslim store in Guen, some 250 kilometers north of Bangui, Central African Republic. As U.N. peacekeepers prepare to go into the Central African Republic to take over a regional mission, the death toll since fighting between Muslims and Christians started in December underscores how the aid is coming too late for thousands of victims. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

AP: More than 5,000 dead in C. African Republic

Krista Larson · September 12, 2014 9:56 pm