Tag: World

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Lifegiving Trinity Church in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia will develop an array of new nuclear and conventional weapons to counter recent moves by the U.S. and NATO. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

National Security

Putin promises new weapons to fend Western threats

Vladimir Isachenkov · September 10, 2014 7:05 pm

Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, points whilst speaking during a visit to a financial office in Edinburgh, Wednesday Sept. 10, 2014, where he made an impassioned plea to keep Scotland part of the union, saying he would be "heartbroken" if the United Kingdom was torn apart. (AP Photo/PA, Andrew Milligan) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

UK leader rushes to fend off Scottish independence

JILL LAWLESSPAUL KELBIE · September 10, 2014 7:01 pm

Civilians inspect the site a car bomb explosion in southeastern neighborhood of New Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Twin car bombs near pet and vegetable markets in Baghdad killed and wounded dozens of people, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Attacks kill 30 people in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad

Sameer Yacoub · September 10, 2014 6:56 pm

Haiti's Health Minister Florence Duperval Guillaume, left, leads a tour for first lady Sophia Martelly through a warehouse housing a donation of kits to treat chikungunya, in the Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The U.S. medical aid group Direct Relief donated millions of kits to treat the mosquito-borne virus that has sickened tens of thousands across the Caribbean over the past year. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haiti gets help for mosquito-borne virus outbreak

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2014 6:52 pm

Raw: Twin Car Bomb Attacks in Iraq

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2014 6:50 pm

What Mideast states could offer a US coalition

Ryan Lucas · September 10, 2014 6:41 pm

FILE - In this Saturday, July 26, 2014 file photo, French Foreign Ministry Laurent Fabius arrives to speak during a press conference after a meeting to press for a cease-fire in Gaza at Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France. Fabius said Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 that his country is ready to take part in airstrikes against extremist fighters in Iraq if needed. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

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France ready to participate in Iraq airstrikes

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2014 6:24 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, surrounded by plainclothes policemen, Egyptian prominent blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah speaks to the crowd after attending, with his sister Sanan, his father Ahmed Seif funeral in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian prosecutors presented in court Wednesday, Sept. 10, a personal home video of Abdel-Fattah's wife dancing as evidence against him in his retrial on charges of protesting and beating a police officer, prompting an outcry from his lawyers that the material was irrelevant and defamatory. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Egypt prosecutors show court activist’s home video

SARAH EL DEEB · September 10, 2014 6:17 pm

Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, center, greets local and international journalists behind a dinner table after a news conference at his resident in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Ghani Ahmadzai, one of two presidential candidates in Afghanistan, said that talks on a national unity government will continue but that it cannot accommodate two leaders. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan talks could continue after inauguration

Jason Straziuso · September 10, 2014 6:08 pm

FILE - In this file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, posted on April 16, 2014, an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, children are seen receiving oxygen in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus. A toxic chemical, almost certainly chlorine, was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in attacks on villages in northern Syria earlier this year, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

Weapons watchdog: Chlorine likely used in Syria

Mike Corder · September 10, 2014 6:06 pm

National Security

Israeli cop charged over hurt Palestinian-American

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2014 5:59 pm

Israeli military opens its own probe into Gaza war

Aron Heller · September 10, 2014 5:58 pm