Tag: World

Haiti police search for 329 escaped prisoners

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 4:05 pm

In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, boys from the Bukusu ethnic group, which prefers traditional circumcision using simple tools and no anesthesia, attend a circumcision ceremony in Bungoma, western Kenya. While the circumcision season among Kenya's Bukusu ethnic group brings a festive atmosphere, at least 12 men from other tribes have been forcibly circumcised since the start of the circumcisions in August 2014, according to police and local authorities, and a group of men from the Turkana tribe wielding swords, bows and clubs held protests last week over the spate of forced procedures. (AP Photo)

Many Kenyan men flee to avoid forced circumcisions

Tom Odula · August 11, 2014 3:37 pm

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan acknowledge supporters after Erdogan's election victory, in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Erdogan won Turkey's first direct presidential election Sunday, striking a conciliatory tone toward critics who fear he is bent on a power grab as he embarks on another five years at the country's helm.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey to select new PM end August

ELENA BECATOROSSUZAN FRASER · August 11, 2014 3:34 pm

Kremlin says Russia is sending humanitarian convoy into Ukraine in cooperation with Red Cross

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 3:13 pm

Storm capsizes boats in Northern Ireland regatta

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 3:04 pm

A trapped worker calls for help from the rubble of a collapsed building in Pathumthani province, central Thailand, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. A six-story building under construction on the outskirts of Thailand's capital collapsed Monday, killing a number of workers and trapping several others underneath the rubble, police said. (AP Photo) THAILAND OUT

Thailand building collapse kills 3, traps 7

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 3:01 pm

FILE - This April 17, 2014, file image shows a Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, of Judge, Army Col. James Pohl as he halts the Sept. 11 pretrial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Prosecutors have asked Pohl to hear arguments on their emergency motion involving Ramzi Binalshibh first thing Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, at a pretrial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)

National Security

Judge weighs recombining trials for 9/11 suspects

David Dishneau · August 11, 2014 2:48 pm

Dutch push Ukraine plane disaster inquiries

Toby Sterling · August 11, 2014 2:29 pm

Iranian rescue personnel work at the site of a passenger plane crash near the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. The Sepahan Air Iran-140 regional plane crashed Sunday killing tens of people onboard, shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Mehrabad airport on its way to Tabas, a town in eastern Iran, state media reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Survivor: Engine out before Iranian airplane crash

Amir Vahdat · August 11, 2014 2:24 pm

Sidiqullah holds a photograph of his brother, who went missing in Nov. 2012, during U.S. military operations in Wardak province, at a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The U.S. failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, the international rights group Amnesty International said Monday. NATO said it investigates all credible reports of civilian casualties, without responding to the group's specific claims.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Report criticizes US over Afghan civilian deaths

AMIR SHAHREBECCA SANTANA · August 11, 2014 2:10 pm

People walk past banners welcoming Pope Francis on the street in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Pope Francis is scheduled to make a five-day trip to South Korea, starting Aug. 14 to participate in a Catholic youth festival and to preside over a beatification ceremony for 124 Korean martyrs. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Pope kicks off Asia missionary boost in SKorea

Nicole Winfield · August 11, 2014 2:08 pm

A participant poses as hundreds of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites parade through the streets during Gaijatra festival in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The Hindu festival to remember the dead is gleefully overtaken each year by the country's gay community in this socially conservative Hindu-majority nation. (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)

Nepal gay community parades for same-sex marriage

BiNaj Gurubacharya · August 11, 2014 1:50 pm