Tag: World

National Security

Russian sailors in limbo in French port

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 7:05 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2004 file photo, former President of El Salvador Francisco Flores sits in the Casa Presidencial where he announced his bid for Secretary General of the Organization of American States in San Salvador, El Salvador. The former Salvadoran president turned himself in Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 to authorities, to face charges of embezzlement and illicit enrichment related to a donation by the government of Taiwan. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

Salvadoran ex-president turns himself in

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 6:12 pm

France's President Francois Hollande, left, shakes hands with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a bilateral meeting on the second day of the NATO 2014 Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. NATO leaders are expected to announce a raft of fresh sanctions against Russia on Friday over its actions in Ukraine, although hopes remain that a ceasefire can be forged at peace talks in Minsk on the same day. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)

Canada to send military advisers to Iraq

Rob Gillies · September 5, 2014 6:06 pm

FILE - In this March 11, 2014 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks on his radio and television program called "In contact with Maduro" at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Critics have mostly ignored the new TNT spy drama "Legends," but it's creating a furor in Venezuela. The telecommunications commission opened an investigation on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 into the series over an episode in which a character fingers Maduro and his socialist party as the buyer of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra, File)

Controversy in Venezuela over Chavez prayer

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 5:44 pm

Rights groups call for release of Syrian activists

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 5:40 pm

Rescue Efforts Halted at Bosnian Mine

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 5:21 pm

National Security

UN report confirms nuke probe of Iran stalled

George Jahn · September 5, 2014 5:18 pm

Coal miners carry out a fellow miner, center, who was injured while he was trapped in coal mine Raspotocje in Zenica,70 kms north of Sarajevo , Bosnia, on Friday, Sept.5, 2014 . Rescuers on Friday were pulling out some of the 34 miners who had been trapped deep inside a coal mine that collapsed in central Bosnia. Tired, their faces smeared with coal dust, the men came out of the Zenica mine one by one, after spending the night more than 500 meters (1,600 feet) below the ground. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Bosnian mine accident: 29 rescued, 5 miners buried

SABINA NIKSICAMER COHADZIC · September 5, 2014 5:16 pm

National Security

Lebanon: Israel detonates spying device, 1 killed

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 4:53 pm

French President Francois Hollande gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the end of the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

French president slams accusations by ex

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 4:43 pm

Vigilante and local hunters armed with guns gather outside the Emir's palace in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The United States is preparing to launch a "major" border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday. Nigerian insurgents have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon and have been seizing land in northeast Nigeria where they proclaimed an Islamic caliphate. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

Hundreds fear extremists, flee north Nigerian city

Michelle Faul · September 5, 2014 4:34 pm

National Security

NATO approves new force aimed at deterring Russia

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 4:24 pm