Tag: World

FILE - This is a Friday, July, 25, 2014 file photo of Chika Amalaha of Nigeria, as she makes good lift during the women's 53 kg weightlifting competition at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014, in Glasgow, Scotland. Amalaha won the gold medal in the event. The Nigerian weightlifting gold medalist Chika Amalaha has failed a doping test at the Commonwealth Games and has been provisionally suspended from the games. Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper said Tuesday July 29, 2014 that Amalaha tested positive for diuretics and masking agents after being tested on July 25. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Teen weightlifter stripped of Commonwealth gold

Rob Harris · August 1, 2014 4:15 pm

Raw: Tunisia Closes Borders With Libya

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 3:43 pm

Italy, Poland vie for top EU foreign policy job

Juergen Baetz · August 1, 2014 3:29 pm

China says 9 suspects killed in Xinjiang raid

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 3:02 pm

Gunmen kill another Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 2:58 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C Orion surveillance plane flies over the disputed islands, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. Japan says it will give names to five uninhabited islands as part of a group in the East China Sea, Friday Aug. 1, 2014, a move likely to spark anger from other claimants China and Taiwan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Japan names 5 disputed islets in East China Sea

Mari Yamaguchi · August 1, 2014 2:35 pm

2 Americans detained in North Korea say they will be tried soon, appeal for US help

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 2:07 pm

Palestinians return to the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

In brief lull, Gaza’s displaced survey devastation

Karin Laub · August 1, 2014 1:46 pm

6 dead following earthquake in Algeria

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 1:44 pm

Soldiers use electronic sensors to search for missing persons believed to be buried after massive gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A series of explosions about midnight Thursday and early Friday ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city, killing scores of people, Taiwan's National Fire Agency said Friday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Energy and Environment

12,000 evacuees return after Taiwan gas explosions

GLADYS TSAIRALPH JENNINGS · August 1, 2014 1:42 pm

A destroyed fire truck is seen overturned in the rubble after massive gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A series of underground explosions about midnight Thursday and early Friday ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city, killing scores of people, Taiwan's National Fire Agency said Friday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

AP PHOTOS: City streets destroyed in Taiwan blasts

The Associated Press · August 1, 2014 1:31 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa speaks before the parliament during a no-confidence vote meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Slovenian ex-Prime Minister Janez Jansa was granted a brief prison furlough on Friday to attend the country's first parliamentary session after he won a seat in last month's election. Jansa, leader of the opposition Slovene Democratic Party, has been serving a two-year sentence for bribery since June. He arrived unescorted to the parliamentary session as several hundred supporters gathered outside the building. He was expected to return to prison once the session ends. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Slovenia ex-premier gets brief prison furlough

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 1:17 pm