Tag: World

Hawthi Shiite protesters sit on the ground to prevent riot police vehicles advancing during a protest in a main road leading to the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Yemeni security forces moved to break up a sit-in held by Shiite rebels blocking the capital's airport road on Sunday, using water cannons, bulldozers and tear gas, security officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s president fires head of special forces

Ahmed AlHaj · September 8, 2014 5:58 pm

A Somali soldier stands near the wreckage of civilian vehicle destroyed by a suicide car bomb attack near the Elasha Biyaha settlement, in the Lower Shabelle region south of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. At least 12 civilians were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car next to a convoy of African Union forces moving near two minibuses, followed by a second suicide attacker ramming his car into a convoy escorting the Mogadishu intelligence commander on his way to inspect the scene of the first blast, the first serious assault by suspected Islamic extremists after the killing of al-Shabab's top leader in a U.S. airstrike last week, according to a police and a regional official. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

12 civilians killed in Somalia attack, say police

Abdi Guled · September 8, 2014 5:57 pm

George Clooney and his fiancee Amal Alamuddin pose for photographers as they arrive for the "Celebrity Fight Night" foundation gala dinner, in Florence, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Francesco Bellini)

Clooney says he’ll wed fiancee in romantic Venice

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 5:30 pm

Raw: Troops Rescue People From South Asia Floods

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 4:48 pm

A US soldier takes part in an exercise called "Saber Junction" at the military area in Hohenfels near Regensburg, southern Germany, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Saber Junction 14 is a U.S. Army Europe led, U.S. European Command directed, multinational, multiservice exercise that involves more than 5,800 personnel from 17 European countries. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

National Security

US, allies ‘liberate town’ in military exercise

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 4:46 pm

3 al-Shabab suspects arrested in Frankfurt

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 4:42 pm

Flanked by security personnel, Goel Ratzon, a polygamist cult leader, attends a hearing in the district court room in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. The Israeli court convicted Ratzon Monday on several accounts of sex crimes against the harem of women he maintained, including rape, incest and other offenses. Ratzon kept at least 21 "wives" whom were kept in a state of near total obedience. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod, Pool)

Polygamist Israeli cult leader convicted

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 4:19 pm

FILE - In this May 11, 2014, file photo, singer Justin Bieber watches the Los Angeles Clippers play the Oklahoma City Thunder during Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series in Los Angeles. Toronto prosecutors on Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, told a court they have dropped assault charges against Bieber in connection with an incident involving a Toronto limousine driver. The charge withdrawn Monday stemmed from an early-morning incident late last December, when Bieber and five other people were picked up by a limousine from a Toronto nightclub. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Bieber assault charge dropped over limo incident

Rob Gillies · September 8, 2014 3:59 pm

Thai police question surrogacy scandal doctor

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 3:58 pm

FILE - In this Monday, April 30, 2012 file photo released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team (AU-UN IST), a Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher at sunrise on the frontline near the main road on the northern edge of Maslah Town, the northern city limit of the Somali capital Mogadishu, in Somalia. Some African Union troops in Somalia sexually exploited or raped women and girls who are internal refugees, a new report by an international human rights group alleged Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/AU-UN IST, Stuart Price, File)

Rights group: AU troops raped females in Somalia

Tom Odula · September 8, 2014 3:50 pm

A tour bus lies upside down off the embankment next to the highway after crashing near Narok in western Kenya Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. A Kenyan police officer says two Australian tourists died and 16 other westerners were injured when the vehicle they were in crashed Sunday along a highway west of the capital Nairobi. (AP Photo)

Kenya police: 2 Australians killed in bus accident

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2014 3:44 pm

FILE - This photo taken Wednesday, July 2, 2014, and released Monday, July 21, 2014, to mark Prince George's first birthday, shows Britain's Prince William and Kate Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince during a visit to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London. The Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, is expecting her second child and was being treated for severe morning sickness, royal officials said Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)

British royal couple expecting second child

Gregory Katz · September 8, 2014 3:43 pm