Tag: World

Turkey says no Turkish military strike against IS

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 11:55 am

FILE - In this May 15, 1986 file photo, from left, Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli, Israeli Producer Menahem Golan, opera singer Katia Ricciarelli and Mexican Singer Placido Domingo in Cannes, for the screening of their film "Otello" in competition in the 39th Cannes film festival. Golan, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who produced some of the biggest action movies of the 1980s, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 85. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)

Veteran Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan dies at 85

Aron Heller · August 9, 2014 11:33 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry address during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and U.S. Ministerial meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Saturday, Aug 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Kerry seeks to calm South China Sea tensions

Matthew Lee · August 9, 2014 10:28 am

In this July 3, 2014 photo, Som Seng Eath, 86, widow of a dairy writer Poch Younly, pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in her home, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Nearly 40 years ago, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians who died of overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Rare diary gives details of life under Khmer Rouge

Todd Pitman · August 9, 2014 9:23 am

Raw: Aftermath of Airstrike in Gaza

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 9:19 am

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan wave to supporters after a rally in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Some 53 million Turks go the polls on Sunday to choose their 12th president in an election considered a turning point for the country of 76 million people, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vying for the position he has pledged to transform from a symbolic role into a position of power. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the former chief of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas are also running. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish elections could shift president’s role

Suzan Fraser · August 9, 2014 7:17 am

HIV infections rise, thwart Brazil’s AIDS efforts

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · August 9, 2014 7:06 am

In this photo taken, July 18, 2014, an extra piece paper of Younly's dairy book reads "if father die before your motherâ¦" as this book permanently keeps in the Documentation Center of Cambodia's office, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Khmer Rouge diary: ‘Everyone works like animals’

Associated Press · August 9, 2014 6:30 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with Vietnam's Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, left, at a hotel during their meeting outside the venue of the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Naypyidaw Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State Kerry is in Myanmar seeking to calm tensions in the South China Sea between China and its smaller neighbors. (AP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri, Pool)

Kerry aims to calm South China Sea tensions

Matthew Lee · August 9, 2014 5:08 am

This image provided by the U.S. Defense Department shows pallets of bottled water are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in preparation for a humanitarian airdrop over Iraq Aug. 8, 2014. Airmen with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped 40 bundles of water for displaced citizens in the vicinity of Sinjar, Iraq. American planes conducted a second airdrop of food and water early Saturday for those trapped in the Sinjar mountains, said Pentagon chief spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)

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US bombs militants in Iraq as crisis worsens

DIAA HADIDBRAM JANSSEN · August 9, 2014 5:06 am

A woman offer a prayer in front of the Statue of Peace at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 to mark the 69th anniversary of the world's second atomic bomb attack. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Nagasaki mayor questions policy on A-bomb day

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 4:14 am

US drops more food and water for Iraqi refugees

Lolita Baldor · August 9, 2014 2:46 am