Tag: World

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, speaks in front of local and international media representatives as presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah, right, and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, left , listen during the Independence Day ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. King Amanullah won the country's independency from Britain in 1919. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghanistan bars NYT reporter from leaving country

AMIR SHAHREBECCA SANTANA · August 19, 2014 6:51 pm

A Russian military truck carries a MSTA-S self-propelled howitzer about 10 kilometers from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at town Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk on Tuesday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key rebel-held stronghold, Ukrainian officials said. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukrainian forces press attacks on rebel-held areas

Peter Leonard · August 19, 2014 6:43 pm

Foreign Ministers of France Laurent Fabius, Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Russia Sergey Lavrov, from left, go for a walk before a meeting at the Guesthouse of Foreign Ministry Villa Borsig in Berlin, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

Germany’s Merkel to visit Ukraine on Saturday

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 6:08 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2003, file photo, Casey Kasem poses for photographers after receiving the Radio Icon award during The 2003 Radio Music Awards at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. A spokeswoman for the funeral service agency in the Norwegian capital says the wife of U.S. radio personality Kasem has cited her Norwegian heritage as a reason for burying her late husband in Oslo. Kasem, the host of "American Top 40," died June 15, 2014, in Washington at age 82. His death followed a lengthy battle over his care between wife Jean Kasem and his three adult children from his first marriage. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison, File)

Wife to bury Kasem in Norway, cites heritage

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 5:40 pm

2 Italian air force jets collide over Italy

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 4:43 pm

Iraq Shiite fighters make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group in Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Fighters of the voluntary armed group formed after the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to protect holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/ Hadi MIzban)

Iraqi military clashes with militants in Tikrit

Sinan Salaheddin · August 19, 2014 4:21 pm

The remains of journalist Nat Nakasa, in a coffin draped in a South African flag, arrives in Durban, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 where he will be reburied, South Africa's arts and culture ministry said. South Africa is repatriating the remains of Nakasa, a black anti-apartheid journalist, who died in the United States in 1965 and was buried there until his recent exhumation. (AP Photo)

South Africa repatriates journalist’s remains

Christopher Torchia · August 19, 2014 4:20 pm

Man arrested over death of Afghan in container

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 4:12 pm

Accidental US Embassy shooting in Jordan wounds 2

Omar Akour · August 19, 2014 4:10 pm

Israeli official says delegation in Cairo for talks has been recalled over Gaza rocket fire

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 3:56 pm

Israeli military says it has intercepted 2 more rockets fired at southern Israel from Gaza

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 3:44 pm

Report: Famed Iranian poet Behbahani dies at 87

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 3:31 pm