Tag: World

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014, file photo, Colombian bullfighters Omar Rodriguez, left, Alfredo Pena, second left, Diego Torres, second right, and David Rodriguez, right, stand outside La Santa Maria bullring while staging a hunger strike in Bogota, Colombia. Eight bullfighters have been striking for more than a week in tents outside the city's only bullring after Mayor Gustavo Petro ended bullfighting in the city when he cancelled the bullring's lease in June 2012. He said he wanted public places to be used for activities of "life, not death". (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Novice matadors’ hunger strike over bullfight ban

Libardo Cardona · August 18, 2014 4:03 am

Japan looks into report Japanese detained in Syria

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 1:01 am

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2007 file photo, Lee Yong-soo wipes her tears as she recalls hardships she experienced during World War II in Tokyo. Lee hopes a meeting Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, with Pope Francis will provide some solace for the pain that still feels fresh more than seven decades after Japanese soldiers forced her into prostitution during WWII. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File)

Elderly ex-sex slaves want solace, help from pope

JungYoon Choi · August 18, 2014 12:52 am

A Pro-Russian missile launcher drives in the town of Krasnodon, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. A column of several dozen heavy vehicles, including tanks and at least one rocket launcher, rolled through rebel-held territory on Sunday.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city

Peter Leonard · August 17, 2014 10:52 pm

Mao’s archenemy Chiang Kai-shek part of mainstream

Louise Watt · August 17, 2014 9:58 pm

Chilean military chief who followed Pinochet dies

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2014 8:42 pm

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, stand guard near Mosul Dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Kurdish forces took over parts of the largest dam in Iraq on Sunday less than two weeks after it was captured by the Islamic State extremist group, Kurdish security officials said, as U.S. and Iraqi planes aided their advance by bombing militant targets near the facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam

Diaa Hadid · August 17, 2014 7:29 pm

Polls show close race month before Scotland vote

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2014 7:21 pm

UK police identify cargo stowaways as Afghan Sikhs

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2014 6:43 pm

Pakistan politician calls for civil disobedience

Zarar Khan · August 17, 2014 6:03 pm

A Palestinian protester throws a glass bottle at Israeli soldiers during clashes, following a protest against the Israeli military action over Hamas in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, Aug. 15 , 2014. Israel and Hamas are now observing a five-day temporary cease-fire in an attempt to allow indirect talks in Cairo to continue. The negotiations are meant to secure a substantive end to the monthlong Gaza war and draw up a roadmap for the coastal territory, which has been hard-hit in the fighting. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

National Security

Palestinian divisions emerge in Gaza truce talks

Mohammed Daraghmeh · August 17, 2014 5:57 pm

In this photo provided by the L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis baptizes Lee Ho Jin, the father of one of the children who died in South Korea's April ferry disaster, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/L' Osservatore Romano)

AP PHOTOS: A look at the pope’s visit to S. Korea

The Associated Press · August 17, 2014 5:21 pm