Tag: World

Pentagon: US conducts 2nd airdrop of food and water to Iraqi refugees

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 2:29 am

Canada sends icebreakers to Arctic to gather data

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 2:27 am

This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. The World Health Organization on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread. (AP Photo/Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine)

UN: Ebola outbreak a public health emergency

Maria Cheng · August 8, 2014 11:38 pm

Smoke rises after airstrikes by the U.S. forces targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. The airstrikes by the U.S. forces were launched outside the Kurdish regional capital Irbil, and marked the first time U.S. forces have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

A guide to daily developments in Iraq

Washington Examiner · August 8, 2014 11:13 pm

Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, right, and her grandson Ignacio Hurban hold a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. A provincial music teacher in Argentina, Hurban, is making his first public appearance since he was dramatically identified as the long-sought grandson of the country's leading human rights activist, Estela de Carlotto. The activist spent 36 years searching for the child taken from her daughter, who was executed by the military during the country's military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Grandson lost during Argentina ‘dirty war’ emerges

Ben Fox · August 8, 2014 11:08 pm

Smoke, dust and debris rise over Gaza City after an Israeli strike, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, as Israel and Gaza militants resumed cross-border attacks after a three-day truce expired and Egyptian-brokered talks on a new border deal for blockaded Gaza hit a deadlock. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel-Hamas truce collapses in new violence

JOSEF FEDERMANMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 8, 2014 10:24 pm

FILE - This Aug. 9, 2011 photo shows a Wall Street street sign near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. U.S. stocks are opening slightly higher Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 as investors weigh gains in productivity against worsening geopolitical concerns. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

US stocks buck turmoil weighing on global markets

Bernard Condon · August 8, 2014 10:21 pm

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters walk toward the front line with militants from the extremist Islamic State group, at the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Bolstered by US, Kurds defiant to extremist threat

Diaa Hadid · August 8, 2014 10:14 pm

Al-Qaida militants kill 15 Yemeni soldiers

Ahmed AlHaj · August 8, 2014 10:03 pm

UN calls for South Sudan rivals to resolve crisis

Trenton Daniel · August 8, 2014 9:57 pm

Anger in Brazil at obstetrics tests for jobseekers

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · August 8, 2014 9:28 pm

This image made from video taken on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014 shows Iraqis people from the Yazidi community arriving in Irbil in northern Iraq after Islamic militants attacked the towns of Sinjar and Zunmar. Around 40 thousand people crossed the bridge of Shela in Fishkhabur into the Northern Kurdish Region of Iraq, after being given an ultimatum by Islamic militants to either convert to Islam, pay a security tax, leave their homes, or die. (AP Photo via AP video)

Iraq official: Militants hold 100s of Yazidi women

Sameer Yacoub · August 8, 2014 8:02 pm