Tag: World

Niger lawmaker flees before being questioned

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 11:30 pm

FILE- In this Sept. 30, 2010 file photo, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, wearing a gas mask, is caught in the middle of a police protest at a police base in Quito, Ecuador. An Ecuadoran court has sentenced this Wednesday Aug. 27, 2014, six police officers to prison for attempting to kill President Rafael Correa during the 2010 protest. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

Ecuadoran police sentenced for attack on president

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 11:08 pm

Relatives criticize Mexico’s new number on missing

Eduardo Castillo · August 27, 2014 10:22 pm

A general view of the town centre in Rotherham, England, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded Tuesday in a damning account of "collective failures" by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked over a 16-year period. (AP Photo/Sylvia Hui)

UK sex abuse report prompts outrage, reflection

Sylvia Hui · August 27, 2014 8:47 pm

Smoke rises after shelling in the town of Novoazovsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Towering columns of smoke rose Tuesday from outside a city in Ukraine's far southeast after what residents said was a heavy artillery barrage. It was the second straight day that attacks were reported in the vicinity of Novoazovsk, which is in eastern Ukraine's separatist Donetsk region but previously had seen little fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Battle for Ukraine’s southeast coast heats up

Peter Leonard · August 27, 2014 8:24 pm

Palestinian relatives carry national flag-draped bodies of Omar al-Bareem, 17, and his brother Mohammed, 12, who were killed in an Israeli strike on a car, during their funeral at their family house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Two brother were killed in an airstrike on a car yesterday east of Khan Younis, according to Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

AP ANALYSIS: A grim stalemate at war’s end in Gaza

Dan Perry · August 27, 2014 8:20 pm

ROTHERHAM UK

rruizr.ruiz · August 27, 2014 8:13 pm

A Palestinian militant of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, holds his rifle during a celebration of the victory rally at the debris of destroyed houses in Shijaiyah, neighborhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. An open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip was holding Wednesday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli premier, Hamas declare victory in Gaza war

TIA GOLDENBERGIBRAHIM BARZAK · August 27, 2014 7:58 pm

National Security

Mother of US reporter in Syria begs for his life

DIAA HADIDJOHN HEILPRIN · August 27, 2014 7:55 pm

During a training session participants listen as they stand over a mannequin on a stretcher during a training course to instruct non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and doctors on how to deal with the Ebola virus in Brussels on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. The course, provided by Doctors Without Borders, trains volunteer and medical personnel on precautions to take when entering a zone that contains the Ebola virus.(AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

US official warns Ebola outbreak will get worse

CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAYJONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH · August 27, 2014 7:20 pm

In this Picture released by the Italian Navy, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, migrants wait to be boarded on the San Giusto Navy ship, along the Mediterranean sea, off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano renewed his demand for the European Union to relieve pressure on Italy, which has seen some 100,000 migrants arrive so far this year alone. The country says it spends 9.5 million euros ($13 million) a month to operate the beefed-up air and sea patrols that were launched after more than 360 migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa last October. "Italy will make its own decisions" if EU partners don't offer assistance, he warned in a tweet. The EU's home affairs commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom, thanked Italy for its "huge efforts" to save lives and said in a statement she would meet Wednesday with Alfano "to better define priorities and provide assistance." (AP Photo/Italian Navy)

EU to beef up border agency to deal with migrants

Nicole Winfield · August 27, 2014 6:45 pm

Outgoing commander of ISAF, U.S. Gen. Joseph Dunford, first left, and incoming U.S. Army Commander for International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), Gen. John F. Campbell, first right, salute during a change of command ceremony at the ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. ISAF is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan that was established by the United Nations Security Council in 2001. It will end its mission at the end of 2014. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

US commander: Afghans face Taliban test in 2015

Lolita Baldor · August 27, 2014 6:42 pm