Tag: World

New Nigeria videos show abuses: Amnesty report

Maram Mazen · August 5, 2014 12:42 am

In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, photo a convoy of Azerbaijan's Army tanks moves in the direction of Agdam, Azerbaijan. Recent days have seen a sharp escalation in fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia around a tense line of control around Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP Photo/Abbas Atilay)

Death toll rises in Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict

aida-sultanova · August 5, 2014 12:35 am

File - In this June 19, 2014 file photo, Babar Suleman, left, and son Haris Suleman, 17, stand next to their plane at an airport in Greenwood, Ind., before taking off for an around-the-world flight. Officials in American Samoa on Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, recovered a personal locator beacon registered to the Sulemans, who crashed off the U.S. territory last month as they attempted to fly around the world. Haris Suleman died in the July 22 crash and his father, Babar Suleman, remains missing. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Robert Scheer, File)

Beacon recovered after teen pilot’s ocean crash

Fili Sagapolutele · August 5, 2014 12:30 am

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 air force to back Kurds fighting Islamists

BRAM JANSSENSAMEER N. YACOUB · August 4, 2014 10:46 pm

ATP cancels tournament in Israel amid conflict

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 10:20 pm

Dutch inform UN of Malaysia Airlines investigation

Edith Lederer · August 4, 2014 9:53 pm

The philosophical battle continues between those who think government does a better job of spending other people's money (surely a discredited notion given the record of government misspending) and money earners who believe smaller government is better for both government and the governed.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

People, not politicians, improve world economies

Cal Thomas · August 4, 2014 9:18 pm

National Security

Cuba abuzz over news of US travelers program

Peter Orsi · August 4, 2014 8:59 pm

In this Saturday, July 26, 2014 file photo, World War I German Corporal Reinhold Dietrich, right, and British Captain Kenneth James Roy are buried side by side at the Saint Symphorien Cemetery near Mons, Belgium. Separated by only a small patch of yellow daisies at the Saint-Symphorien military cemetery lie two former enemies: British Captain Kenneth James Roy and German Gefreiter (Corporal) Reinhold Dietrich. Also between the two are some 9 million dead soldiers over four years. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Former enemies unite for World War I commemoration

Raf Casert · August 4, 2014 8:55 pm

Israeli official: Israel accepts Egyptian cease-fire proposal

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 8:45 pm

Jamaica merges 2 law agencies for corruption fight

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 8:41 pm

In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 photo, Sabreen el-Tartour, of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, walks through a devastated area in Gaza City. From the first day of Israel-Hamas fighting on July 8, human rights groups operating in Gaza have been collecting detailed information about the aftermath of Israeli strikes, so far more than 4,600, according to the military, to lay the groundwork for future legal proceedings. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Both sides prepare for new Gaza war crimes probe

KARIN LAUBJOHN HEILPRIN · August 4, 2014 8:18 pm