Tag: World

World Health Organization: Death toll from West Africa Ebola outbreak rises to 1,350

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 5:00 pm

Militants attack major air base in eastern Syria

Zeina Karam · August 20, 2014 4:53 pm

Pope Francis wears skullcaps given by faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope: Thanks for prayers for my family’s grief

Frances D'emilio · August 20, 2014 3:58 pm

FILE - In this April 4, 2014 file photo a spiraling torque from the second century A.D., is displayed as part of the exhibit called The Crimea - Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea, at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam. The museum says it sees no choice but to hold on to a number of highly valuable objects it borrowed from Ukranian museums for the time being, because it is unable to reconcile competing claims from museum. The museum borrowed the items from the museums before Russia annexed the Crimea, and it says returning them now to one side or the other would lead to legal claims. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch museum to hold Crimean gold

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 3:55 pm

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 5, 2014, a woman has her passport photos taken outside the passport office in Harare. People queue for hours before the offices open in the hope of securing a passport that will allow them to escape their country's dearth of opportunities and search for work abroad. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe economy takes another dive

Farai Mutsaka · August 20, 2014 3:41 pm

Pakistan's Ambassador to India Abdul Basit speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondence Club in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Basit spoke to reporters in New Delhi two days after India called off diplomatic talks with Pakistan because Basit met with Kashmiri separatist leaders in the violence-wracked region. He defended his recent talks with the separatists on Wednesday, saying that including them in the dialogue is the only way to find a lasting peace between the South Asian rivals. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Pakistani envoy defends meeting Kashmiri leaders

Nirmala George · August 20, 2014 3:09 pm

Egypt says rolling blackouts to end in 4 months

Maggie Michael · August 20, 2014 2:47 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Angela Merkel’s Ukraine role mirrors rising German ambition

Geir Moulson · August 20, 2014 2:43 pm

FILE - In this June 14, 2010 file photo Hong Kong actor Jaycee Chan attends a premiere of his new film " Break Up Club " in Hong Kong. Action star Jackie Chan said he's ashamed and saddened over his son's arrest on drug charges and has apologized to the public. In a microblog posting Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, Chan said his actor son Jaycee Chan would have to face the consequences of his actions, but promised that the two would face the future together.(AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Jackie Chan expresses shame over son’s drug arrest

Christopher Bodeen · August 20, 2014 2:22 pm

An internally displaced Iraqi woman holds her sister during a sandstorm at a new camp outside the Bajid Kandala camp in Feeshkhabour town, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced by fighting in Iraq since the Islamic State's rapid advance began in June, and thousands more have died. The scale of the humanitarian crisis prompted the U.N. to declare its highest level of emergency last week. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Germany, Italy, ready to send arms to Iraq Kurds

Frank Jordans · August 20, 2014 2:03 pm

In this aerial photo, a rescue helicopter hovers over an area devastated by a massive landslide in Hiroshima, western Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. A several people died and at least a dozen are missing after rain-sodden hills in the outskirts of Hiroshima gave way early Wednesday in several landslides. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

36 dead, 7 missing in Hiroshima landslide

Elaine Kurtenbach · August 20, 2014 1:46 pm

A Palestinian youth looks at damages in front of a crater caused by an Israeli strike on the al-Louh family house in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Many were killed in an airstrike on the house of the al-Louh family in Deir el-Balah, including a mother, father, three children, and two brothers of the father, according to Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Steep obstacles to any Gaza deal

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 20, 2014 1:38 pm