Tag: World

Philippine ex-general in kidnapping case captured

Oliver Teves · August 12, 2014 3:49 am

U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets take off for mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. U.S. military officials said American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed several vehicles Sunday that were part of an Islamic State group convoy moving to attack Kurdish forces defending the northeastern Iraqi city of Irbil. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

National Security

Iraq crisis deepens; US directly arms Kurds

VIVIAN SALAMASAMEER N. YACOUB · August 12, 2014 1:27 am

Australian upset by photo of grandson with head

Rod McGuirk · August 12, 2014 1:03 am

Ebola death toll in West Africa passes 1,000

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 12:57 am

Police investigate Rob Ford bomb threat

Rob Gillies · August 11, 2014 10:55 pm

Mexico doctors remove woman’s 130-pound tumor

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 10:43 pm

FILE - The June 12, 2014 file photo shows Amal Alamuddin, human rights lawyer and fiancee of US actor George Clooney, as she attends the 'End Sexual Violence in Conflict' summit in London. Alamuddin has been chosen for the U.N.'s three-member commission of inquiry looking into possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza, United Nations Human Rights Council said Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Clooney’s fiancee Alamuddin rejects Gaza probe job

John Heilprin · August 11, 2014 9:34 pm

A Palestinian woman stands in the rubble of her destroyed home in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire halting the Gaza war held into Monday morning, allowing Palestinians to leave homes and shelters as negotiators agreed to resume talks in Cairo. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza cease-fire takes hold as negotiators gather

Mohammed Daraghmeh · August 11, 2014 9:14 pm

U.S. and Kurdish flags flutter in the wind while displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Syria-Iraq border at Feeshkhabour bridge over the Tigris River at Feeshkhabour border point, in northern Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Kurdish authorities at the border believe some 45,000 Yazidis passed the river crossing in the past week and thousands more are still stranded in the mountains. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

US sending arms to Kurds in Iraq

LARA JAKESKEN DILANIAN · August 11, 2014 7:58 pm

A prisoner tramples smoldering grass in a high-security facility after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Local authorities say more than 100 prisoners have fled from a high-security facility after it was hit by shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. City council spokesman Maxim Rovensky said Monday a jail riot was precipitated by a direct rocket hit that claimed the life of at least one inmate. The fugitives include people jailed for murder, robbery and rape. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine OKs Red Cross-led aid mission to east

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · August 11, 2014 7:45 pm

UN proposal would punish Iraq and Syria militants

Edith Lederer · August 11, 2014 7:38 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, Israeli Yair Lapid, a popular former TV anchorman, head of the new centrist party Yesh Atid, delivers a speech in the Ariel college of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. In an interview with the Associated Press Monday Aug. 11, 2014, Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid called on the international community to pull together a massive aid package for Gaza conditioned on the Palestinian Authority returning to power in place of the Islamic militant group Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Lapid: Gaza aid should be tied to restored PA rule

Dan Perry · August 11, 2014 7:26 pm