Tag: World

Workers from a company outsourced by Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex try to remove fuel from the water after a pipeline spill of premium gasoline contaminated the Hondo River near the town of Tierra Blanca, Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. According to PEMEX, the Aug. 27 spill was caused by an illegal tap in the pipeline by criminals trying to steal fuel. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Mexico sees massive fish die-off at lake

alberto-arce · September 1, 2014 8:34 pm

This is a an undated handout file photo issued by Hampshire Police on Monday Sept. 1, 2014 of Ashya King, who has a brain tumour and was taken by his parents from hospital without the consent of his doctors. Critically-ill 5-year-old boy Ashya King driven to Spain by his parents, Brett and Naghemeh, against doctors' advice is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor in a Spanish hospital as his parents await extradition to Britain, police said Sunday Aug. 31, 2014. Officers received a phone call late Saturday from a hotel east of Malaga advising that a vehicle fitting the description circulated by police was on its premises. Both parents were arrested and the boy, Ashya King, was taken to a hospital, a Spanish police spokesman said. (AP Photo/Hampshire Police)

Parents of ill UK boy fight extradition from Spain

DANICA KIRKAMARIA CHENG · September 1, 2014 7:36 pm

People put their luggage in a private taxi as they arrive from the U.S. to the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Cubans braced Monday for a clampdown on the flow of car tires, flat-screen televisions, blue jeans and shampoo in the bags of travelers who haul eye-popping amounts of foreign-bought merchandise to an island where consumer goods are frequently shoddy, scarce and expensive. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba cracks down on goods in travelers’ luggage

Michael Weissenstein · September 1, 2014 7:23 pm

Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Aid began flowing into the small northern Shiite town in Iraq on Monday, a day after security forces backed by Iran-allied Shiite militias and U.S. airstrikes broke a two-month siege by insurgents in a rare victory by government forces. (AP Photo)

National Security

Iraqi prime minister pledges to root out militants

Sameer Yacoub · September 1, 2014 6:44 pm

Nigerian forces clash with Boko Haram fighters

Haruna Umar · September 1, 2014 6:27 pm

Pakistan’s premier challenged by raging protests

ZARAR KHANASIF SHAHZAD · September 1, 2014 6:22 pm

This undated image from video released by Human Right Watch, shows Mohammed Tareq giving a recorded statement on how he was shot with live ammunition in his arm and chest during the 2013 security crackdown on the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya Square in Cairo by Egyptian security forces. The New York-based group said in a statement that Tareq, was detained during a protest in Egypt's second-largest city of Alexandria on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 and ordered held pending an investigation. The group said Tareq's arrest appeared unrelated to his testimony but the group said according to Tareq's lawyer, among seven people initially arrested with him, Tareq was the only one who was beaten and had his home raided. Human Rights Watch said the killing of more than 800 protesters at the square was a likely crime against humanity. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch)

Rights group: Witness for report on Egypt detained

SARAH EL DEEB · September 1, 2014 6:13 pm

Raw: Iraq Forces Battle Militants

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 5:59 pm

Senegal monitors contacts of 1st Ebola patient

Babacar Dione · September 1, 2014 5:55 pm

Yemeni Shiite protesters chant slogans to demand the government to step down, while attending a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Arabic writing on a banner reads,"The government of corruption must leave." Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis rallied in the capital and across the country against an armed Shiite rebel group which has been holding its own sit-in demanding a new government and the reinstatement of fuel subsidies. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Last-minute effort to end crisis with Yemen rebels

Ahmed AlHaj · September 1, 2014 5:42 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2009 file picture a German armored infantry vehicle Dingo takes part in a combat training in Letzlingen, eastern Germany. Germany joins other European countries who have pledged to provide arms to the Kurds fighting the Islamic State group that has swept into northern Iraq in recent months. In total, the shipments will include 8,000 G36 assault rifles and the same number of G3 rifles, as well as ammunition; 200 Panzerfaust 3 and 30 MILAN anti-tank systems; and five heavily armored Dingo infantry vehicles. Chancellor Angela Merkel has told German lawmakers Monday Sept.1, 2014 that arming Kurdish fighters battling Islamic extremists in Iraq wasn't an easy decision but is in her country's interest. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz,File)

Merkel: Arming Kurds in Germany’s interest

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 5:26 pm

French firemen carry a victim in the rubble of a building after an explosion collapsed it, in Rosny-sous-Bois, outside Paris, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. French authorities say a four-story building in a northeastern Paris suburb has collapsed after an explosion, killing a child. More people are thought to underneath the rubble. Speaking on i-Tele, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus said around 10 people were evacuated from the building in Rosny-sous-bois that occurred early Sunday morning. Plus said that around another 10 people could still be underneath the rubble, and emergency teams were working hard to rescue people who might be trapped. "We could still find living victims in the hours to come," he said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has arrived at the scene, but couldn't confirm a theory that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris suburb building blast death toll reaches 8

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 4:56 pm