Tag: World

Japan sees 1st local dengue case in over 60 years

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 4:43 am

Mannequins stand at a store that sells clothing for over weight people in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. The Venezuelan government has launched a public relations campaign to halt a steady rise in obesity that, if left unchecked, threatens to lead to a costly, public health crisis. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela battles obesity amid dearth of good food

Joshua Goodman · August 27, 2014 4:13 am

Ebola has ‘upper hand’ says US health official

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 27, 2014 4:00 am

Canada pulling Ebola lab team from Sierra Leone

Rob Gillies · August 27, 2014 3:53 am

US criticizes Vietnam convictions of dissidents

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 3:32 am

In this photo provided by Peru's Interior Ministry, a police officer arranges blocks of cocaine for display to the press, in Trujillo Peru, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Peruvian police say they have seized at least 3.3 tons of cocaine, the year's biggest haul, hidden in a shipment of coal that was bound for Belgium and Spain. (AP Photo/Peru's Interior Ministry)

Peru police seize 3.3 tons of cocaine

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 3:31 am

Australia and US to share information on travelers

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 3:21 am

Child sexual abuse suspect Agun Iskandar, center, is escorted by security officers upon arrival for his trial at district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. The first of five janitors accused of raping a kindergartner in a bathroom at a prestigious international school went on trial Tuesday. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Rape trial starts for Indonesia school janitor

Niniek Karmini · August 27, 2014 3:16 am

Central American migrants walk along overgrown train tracks several kilometers outside Arriaga in Chiapas state, Mexico, as they wait for a northbound freight train, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. A Mexican federal official says the government plans to improve railway surveillance and increase the speed of northbound trains in hopes of deterring Central American migrants from riding on top of freight cars. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico officials pull CentAm migrants from trains

Mark Stevenson · August 27, 2014 2:08 am

Community volunteer Edwin Schakeroh, left, helps Gavin Greely a resident fill sand bags in preparing for an expected storm surge in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Southern California coastal areas are preparing for the arrival of big and potentially damaging surf spawned by Hurricane Marie spinning off Mexico's Pacific coast. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut )

Hurricane Cristobal gains, heads toward Bermuda

Danica Coto · August 27, 2014 1:37 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, center, looks at them, prior to their talks after after posing for a photo in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Leaders of Russia, Belarus, two other former Soviet republics as well as top EU officials are meeting in Minsk, Belarus, for a highly anticipated summit to discuss the crisis in Ukraine which has left more than 2,000 dead and displaced over 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Kazakh Presidential Press Service, Sergei Bondarenko, Pool)

No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · August 27, 2014 12:15 am

In this Oct. 28, 2013 image released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) on Monday Aug. 25, 2014, ruins belonging to an ancient Maya city called Lagunita stand out in the jungle on a remote location in the southern state of Campeche, Mexico. Archaeologists in Mexico have made public the existence of an ancient Maya city in the state of Campeche and have rediscovered this forest-covered site that first was stumbled upon in the 1970s. The INAH says the discoveries will help archaeologists study the cultural and political histories of an area known as the Central Lowlands of the Maya region. (AP Photo/INAH, Mauricio Marat)

2 new Maya civilization centers studied in Mexico

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 11:50 pm