Tag: World

In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 photo, Ibrahim al-Telbani, left, and Ahmad Baraka inspect the damaged and burned Al Awda snack food factory in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Factory owner, Mohammed al-Telbani, lost his life's work during the Gaza war after Israeli shells slammed into his four-story factory, one of Gaza's largest, sparking a fire that engulfed vats of margarine and sacks of cocoa powder. Al-Telbani and others in Gaza say anything short of a complete opening of Gaza's borders, after seven years of closure by Israel and Egypt, will do little to change their lives. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

7-year-old Gaza closure key in Israel-Hamas talks

Karin Laub · August 11, 2014 7:25 pm

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, speak as they walk to a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Abbott and Rutte met Monday to discuss repatriation of Australian victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster and to examine possibilities for prosecuting the persons responsible for downing the civilian plane in eastern Ukraine on July 17. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Australia’s Abbott: Ukraine crash was murder

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 6:42 pm

In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Iraq-Syria border at Feeshkhabour bridge over Tigris River at Feeshkhabour border point, northern Iraq. 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)

UK warns of humanitarian crisis in Iraq

Danica Kirka · August 11, 2014 6:13 pm

Dead two-headed dolphin discovered in Turkey

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 6:00 pm

Kosovo police officers guard the entrance of a makeshift mosque after raid in Kosovo capital Pristina on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Kosovo police arrested at least 40 people in a major operation targeting Islamic radicals suspected of fighting alongside extremists in Iraq and Syria. Weapons, ammunition and explosives were seized early Monday as hundreds of police officers and special police units raided 60 locations across Kosovo, including makeshift mosques believed to have served as recruiting centres. Sign in background "Xhamia" in Albanian is for mosque. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo police arrest 40 alleged Islamic radicals

Nebi Qena · August 11, 2014 5:49 pm

Iraqis chant pro-government slogans and display placards bearing a picture of embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Al-Maliki is taking his struggle to keep his job to the courts after announcing he will file a legal complaint on Monday against the country's newly elected president. President Barack Obama warned Americans on Saturday that the new campaign to bring security in Iraq requires military and political changes and "is going to be a long-term project." (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

Iraq president names deputy speaker new PM

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · August 11, 2014 5:37 pm

Court says terror suspect can be extradited to US

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 5:19 pm

Swedish politician says he’s Mitterrand’s son

Karl Ritter · August 11, 2014 5:18 pm

Turkish journalist killed in Iraq during clashes

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 5:09 pm

In this Sept. 22, 2009 file photo, former chess world champion Garry Kasparov, right, and Anatoly Karpov, left, play an exhibition rematch in Valencia, Spain.

Kasparov bid fails as chess body’s boss re-elected

Matti Huuhtanen · August 11, 2014 5:02 pm

In this combination image taken from video recorded on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 and provided by the British Transport Police on Monday Aug. 11, 2014, a child in a buggy is blown on to subway tracks at Goodge Street undeground station, London. British Transport Police released harrowing images of a child in a stroller being blown onto London subway tracks and a woman leaping to the rescue moments before a train arrived. (AP Photo/British Transport Police)

Police show images of child thrown to rail tracks

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 4:33 pm

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center shows fighters from the Islamic State group on top of a military vehicle with anti-aircraft guns in Raqqa, Syria, Thursday, Aug 7, 2014. The Islamic State militants seized the Brigade 93 base overnight after days of heavy fighting, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Raqqa Media Center, an activist collective. The base lies some 40 miles (60 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Raqqa, a stronghold for the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

Islamic militants crush tribal uprising in Syria

Bassem Mroue · August 11, 2014 4:10 pm