Tag: World

Pope OKs protecting Iraq minorities, wants UN OK

Nicole Winfield · August 18, 2014 9:09 pm

Egypt says Gaza cease-fire talks extended 24 hours to continue negotiations

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 8:25 pm

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, an alpinist heads down a ridge on the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 meters; 12 605 feet), towards the Vallee Blanche on the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps, near Chamonix, France. The mayor of the French city of Chamonix says two climbers and an experienced guide have died in a fall accident in the Aiguille de Midi area of the Mont Blanc massif and their bodies were recovered Sunday Aug. 17, 2014. These latest deaths come less than a week after six climbers, including an experienced guide, were killed in a fall. (AP Photo/David Azia, FILE)

Fall on France’s Mont Blanc kills 3 more climbers

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 7:50 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 file photo, a herd of adult and baby elephants walks in the dawn light across Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, with the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, seen behind. A new study released Monday Aug. 18, 2014, by lead author George Wittemye of Colorado State University, found that the proportion of illegally killed elephants has climbed to about 65 percent of all African elephant deaths, accounting for around 100,000 elephants killed by poachers between 2010 and 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Energy and Environment

100,000 elephants killed in Africa, study finds

Jason Straziuso · August 18, 2014 7:40 pm

Emergency service workers, on right, attempt to remove bodies of people who were killed when a structure collapsed on a housing building site, south of Johannesburg, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. A building under renovation on the site collapsed killing eight, officials said. Another two people were missing. (AP Photo)

South Africa: 8 killed in building collapse

Christopher Torchia · August 18, 2014 7:20 pm

Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, left, shakes hands with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a press conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Monday Aug. 18, 2014, where Assange confirmed he "will be leaving the embassy soon". The Australian Assange fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 to escape extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted over allegations of sex crimes. (AP Photo / John Stillwell, POOL)

National Security

Assange talks of leaving embassy, sowing confusion

Raphael Satter · August 18, 2014 7:16 pm

FILE - In this March 23, 2011, file photo, a man prays next to the tomb of slain Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero inside the national cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador. Pope Francis told journalists Monday Aug. 18, 2014, that he is seeking a quick beatification for Archbishop Romero, saying there are no more doctrinal problems blocking the process for the slain Salvadoran archbishop. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Pope eyes fast beatification for Salvador’s Romero

Nicole Winfield · August 18, 2014 7:04 pm

Protest planned for Pakistan capital’s ‘Red Zone’

ASIF SHAHZADZARAR KHAN · August 18, 2014 6:40 pm

Raw: Russian Aid Convoy Crosses Into Ukraine

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 6:34 pm

UN says Gaza requires unprecedented reconstruction

Edith Lederer · August 18, 2014 6:31 pm

In this image taken Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 a man shows his neighbour's apartment that was burned down after a missile hit a residential area in Lysychansk, Ukraine, during the fighting between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian rebels. Lysychansk was retaken by Ukrainian army late last month but has seen sporadic clashes until earlier last week. After months of rebel occupation and weeks of Ukrainian liberation, the residents of Lysychansk this shell-shocked border town say they hope simply to rebuild their former lives _ but fear the return of war to their doorstep. (AP Photo/Vitnija Saldava)

Grief, relief as ravaged Ukrainian town rebuilds

Vitnija Saldava · August 18, 2014 6:30 pm

Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group at Mosul Dam, outside Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Boosted by two days of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday wrested back control of the country's largest dam from Islamic militants, a military spokesman in Baghdad said, as fighting was reported to be underway for the rest of the strategic facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

A buyer’s market at gun bazaar in Kurdish town

Diaa Hadid · August 18, 2014 6:29 pm