Tag: World

Russian-backed rebels aim to push west along coast

PETER LEONARDJUERGEN BAETZ · August 30, 2014 4:07 am

China warns against foreign meddling in Hong Kong

Washington Examiner · August 30, 2014 3:59 am

FILE - This is a Aug. 19, 2014 file image taken from video of a sign is posted on the road next to Bardarbunga, a subglacial stratovolcano located under Iceland's largest glacier. Earthquakes are rocking Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano, adding to concerns that magma movements may trigger an eruption that could hinder air traffic. Iceland's Met Office says two earthquakes measuring over magnitude 5 shook the volcano under the vast Vatnajokull glacier on Wednesday Aug. 27 2014. Some 500 quakes have hit the area since midnight. (AP Photo/Courtesy Channel 2 Iceland, File) ICELAND OUT

Iceland raises volcano aviation alert briefly

Jenna Gottlieb · August 30, 2014 2:59 am

Members of Jewish sect leave Guatemala village

Washington Examiner · August 30, 2014 12:21 am

An armed group of men, not specified which group of rebels, gather at Syria's Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. It was unclear if the men were connected to an armed group that, the United Nations said, detained more than 40 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday. The peacekeepers were detained on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights during a "period of increased fighting between armed elements and the Syrian Arab Armed Forces," the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. ( AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

UN: ‘Very fluid’ situation on held peacekeepers

CARA ANNAPITA LIGAIULA · August 29, 2014 11:23 pm

Jamaican ends legal challenge to anti-sodomy law

David McFadden · August 29, 2014 10:03 pm

Colombian accused in 5,000-plus killings arrested

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2014 9:06 pm

RESENDING RLB101 TO REPLACE CORRUPT FILE - Immigration officials remove Central American migrants from a northbound freight train during a raid by federal police in San Ramon, Mexico, just after midnight on the morning of Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The largest crackdown by Mexican authorities on illegal migration in decades has decreased the flow of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico authorities stage midnight migrant raid

Mark Stevenson · August 29, 2014 8:59 pm

Liberian health workers outside a home of a man that they believed died from the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new plan released by the U.N. health agency to stop Ebola also assumes that the actual number of cases in many hard-hit areas may be two to four times higher than currently reported.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia to unseal slum cordoned off to stop Ebola

BABACAR DIONESARAH DiLORENZO · August 29, 2014 8:26 pm

Ecuador heralds digital currency plans

Gonzalo Solano · August 29, 2014 8:18 pm

Poland bars Russian plane from its airspace

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2014 7:42 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, an al-Qaida-inspired militant stands guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. As Islamic militants rampaged across northern Iraq in June, seizing vast swaths of territory and driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, the Shiite Turkmens living in the hardscrabble town of Amirli decided to stay and fight. (AP Photo, File)

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Iraqi town holds out against militant onslaught

Vivian Salama · August 29, 2014 7:38 pm