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This combination image shows a map tweeted by the Canadian Joint Delegation to NATO on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, top, and a map tweeted in response on Thursday by the Twitter Feed of the Permanent Mission of Russia to NATO, below. The top map went viral, being retweeted more than 25,000 times by late Thursday, including by U.S. U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power. The bottom map shows Crimea as part of Russia, which the country annexed from Ukraine in March. (AP Photo)

Russia replies to Canada’s colorful map tweet

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2014 12:39 am

In this photo provided by the United Nations, the U.N. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefs the U.N. Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, at U.N. Headquarters. She told the Security Council that the Islamic State group is taking violence against civilians in Syria "to a new level," threatening the cross-border humanitarian aid operations recently approved by the Security Council and that both the extremists and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front are advancing on border crossings with Turkey "and could hinder additional cross-border operations." (AP Photo/United Nations, Loey Felipe)

UN: Islamic State group threatens Syria aid access

Cara Anna · August 29, 2014 12:34 am

Doubts surround plane in Brazil campaign

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · August 28, 2014 11:41 pm

Ranger in Africa’s oldest park wounded by grenade

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 11:24 pm

In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, people line up to apply for Haitian identity cards at an office recently opened in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is approving the first residency and work permits for migrants under a new program. To qualify for legal residency, migrants must have come to the Dominican Republic before October 2011. Migrants and advocates say the required documentation is hard to come up with and many may not make it by the May 31 deadline. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)

Dominican legal status still elusive for migrants

EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ · August 28, 2014 10:43 pm

Jamaica agriculture minister dies in Florida

David McFadden · August 28, 2014 10:22 pm

UN Security Council members lament Ukraine crisis

CARA ANNATRENTON DANIEL · August 28, 2014 10:00 pm

This undated photo combo taken from a video by the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows still images of government soldiers captured near Tabqa, Syria according to a statement posted online and circulated on Twitter by supporters of Islamic State group. The photo to the left shows what the extremist group said were the soldiers stripped down to their underwear marching in the desert. The photo to the right shows more than 150 men apparently killed. (AP Photo/ The Islamic State group)

Jihadists kill dozens of captured Syrian soldiers

ZEINA KARAMRYAN LUCAS · August 28, 2014 9:53 pm

A brother seeks answers in ‘The Look of Silence’

Jill Lawless · August 28, 2014 9:49 pm

UN Security Council meets on Ukraine crisis

CARA ANNATRENTON DANIEL · August 28, 2014 9:22 pm

A supporter of Pakistan's cricket celebrity-turned-politician Imran Khan takes part in an anti-government rally with writing on her forehead "Go Nawaz Go," in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Pakistani police have registered allegations of abetting murder against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother over the June killing of 14 supporters of a cleric who is currently leading thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Islamabad. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan army to mediate between PM, protesters

Asif Shahzad · August 28, 2014 9:20 pm

Brazil dismantles large deforestation gang

Stan Lehman · August 28, 2014 8:45 pm