Tag: World

Volunteers deliver bottles of water transported by a helicopter to the earthquake hit Longtoushan town in Ludian county in southwest China's Yunnan province Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Some 10,000 troops and hundreds of volunteers have rushed to Ludian to clear roads and dig out possible survivors from the debris, but landslides and bouts of heavy rains have complicated rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Volunteers step up in China’s response to quake

Christopher Bodeen · August 7, 2014 2:16 am

Nigerian port health officials uses a thermometer on a worker at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. A Nigerian nurse who treated a man with Ebola is now dead and five others are sick with one of the world's most virulent diseases, authorities said Wednesday as the death toll rose to at least 932 people in four West African countries. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria rushes to get isolation tents for Ebola

MARAM MAZANKRISTA LARSON · August 7, 2014 2:14 am

Jewish children threatened on Sydney school bus

Rod McGuirk · August 7, 2014 1:56 am

A man washes his hands in a attempt to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The World Health Organization has begun an emergency meeting on the Ebola crisis, and said at least 932 deaths in four African countries are blamed on the virus, with many hundreds more being treated in quarantine conditions. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia’s president declares Ebola emergency

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2014 11:26 pm

Liberia’s president declares state of emergency amid Ebola outbreak

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2014 11:16 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday May 20, 2014 file photo brother of murder accused, Oscar Pistorius, left, Carl Pistorius, right, speaks with his brother in court in Pretoria, South Africa. Carl Pistorius has been "badly hurt" in a car accident after a head-on collision on a highway in South Africa, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)

Family: Pistorius’ brother in intensive care

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2014 9:33 pm

Palestinian relatives of Islamic Jihad militant Shaaban Al-Dahdouh, which was found under the rubble yesterday, during funeral in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

National Security

Israel-Palestinian talks on Gaza underway in Cairo

MAGGIE MICHAELBRIAN ROHAN · August 6, 2014 9:18 pm

Comet joined by space probe after 10-year pursuit

Frank Jordans · August 6, 2014 9:03 pm

Shiri Medina, center left, hugs her daughter Yael, as they returned home a month after they fled to different locations, in Netiv Haasara near the Israel Gaza border on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. With a cease-fire taking hold, residents of southern Israel slowly begin trickling back to hometowns that largely emptied out during a monthlong war against Hamas militants in the neighboring Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Southern Israelis cautiously prepare to head home

Aron Heller · August 6, 2014 8:35 pm

Workers fill bags with rice at a United Nations food aid distribution center, in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of war was holding for a second day Wednesday, ahead on negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and a broader deal for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

AP ANALYSIS: Assessing the Gaza war outcome so far

Dan Perry · August 6, 2014 7:57 pm

Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard at a gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Afghan official: General’s killer hid in bathroom

Amir Shah · August 6, 2014 7:38 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014 file photo, Palestinians inspect what they think was made by an Israeli drill designed to uncover tunnels used by Palestinian militants, in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas is entering Egyptian-brokered talks with Israel over a new border regime for blockaded Gaza having lost hundreds of fighters, two-thirds of its arsenal of rockets, and its attack tunnels. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

AP ANALYSIS: Hamas emerges weakened from Gaza war

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 6, 2014 7:27 pm