Tag: World

Two women walk with the protection of an umbrella in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Bertha pushed just south of Puerto Rico on Saturday as it unleashed heavy rains and strong winds across the region. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Bertha drifting away from Turks & Caicos, Bahamas

Vivian Tyson · August 4, 2014 2:57 am

FILE - In this June Sunday 20, 2010 file photo, men walk in an oil slick covering a creek near Bodo City in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Little action has been taken to clean up pollution caused by oil production in Nigeriaâs Niger Delta region, either by the government or Shell Oil, Amnesty International and other groups charged Monday. Aug. 4, 2014. Oil production has contaminated the drinking water of at least 10 communities in the Ogoniland area but neither the Nigerian government nor Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary have taken effective measures to restore the fouled environment, said the new report by Amnesty International, Friends of The Earth Europe, Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development, Environmental Rights Action, and Platform. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Energy and Environment

Nigeria, Shell not cleaning oil pollution: report

Maram Mazen · August 4, 2014 1:22 am

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Israel withdraws most troops from Gaza

KARIN LAUBJOSEF FEDERMAN · August 3, 2014 11:22 pm

Portugal puts up $6.6 BN to save ailing bank

Barry Hatton · August 3, 2014 11:05 pm

Sunni insurgents seize small towns in Iraq’s north

Bram Janssen · August 3, 2014 10:22 pm

A plane taxies after arriving at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta., Ga., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Officials at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta expect an American who is infected with the Ebola virus to be transported for treatment today. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

American nurse with Ebola to leave Liberia Tuesday

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2014 8:08 pm

Lebanese soldiers ride in the back of an army vehicle with detained suspected militants in the Lebanese town of Arsal, a primarily Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug 3, 2014. At least 10 Lebanese Army soldiers were killed and over a dozen were captured in Arsal, while tens of militants have been killed, during clashes between the Army and Syrian armed groups, according to security sources. (AP Photo)

Syrian rebels kill 10, capture others in Lebanon

Diaa Hadid · August 3, 2014 6:52 pm

China’s official Xinhua News Agency says death toll from earthquake rises to 357

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2014 6:11 pm

A woman evacuated from Libya is hugged by a man after arriving at a port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. A Greek navy frigate carrying embassy staff and nearly 200 people from Greece, China and other countries evacuated from the conflict in Libya returned early Saturday to the port. The Greek Defense Ministry the ship transported 77 people from Greece, 78 from China, 10 from Britain, seven from Belgium, one each from Russia and Albania. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

22 killed in day of clashes over Libyan airport

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2014 5:51 pm

Usain Bolt of Jamaica takes a photo on a smart phone with a member of the crowd as he walks round Hampden Park Stadium after he competed in the men's 4x100 meter relay race during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday Aug. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/ Scott Heppell)

From Bolt to unknowns, games united Commonwealth

Rob Harris · August 3, 2014 5:41 pm

More belongings found at Ukraine disaster site

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2014 5:22 pm

British drug trafficker arrested in South Africa

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2014 4:42 pm