Tag: World

In this July 14, 2014 photo, Syrian refugee Umm Jamil looks on at her house in Halba town, northern Lebanon. Jamil, who takes care of her 19-year-old disabled son, said she was falsely accused of prostitution after Lebanese police confused her for another suspected prostitute in her building. Her brief detention left her feeling humiliated and wanting to leave Lebanon, where she said Syrian women are often seen as being sexually promiscuous. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

Syrian refugee women face sexual exploitation

Diaa Hadid · August 1, 2014 7:12 am

Japan provides Vietnam with 6 vessels

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 5:20 am

Rescuers evacuate a victim of a boat sinking in the Kapuas river that left a number of people dead in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Thursday, July. 31,2014. It was one of two fatal boat accidents in three days related to celebrations of Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the time of the year when millions of Muslims across the country travel to their hometowns to celebrate the festivity with their families. (AP Photo)

Death toll in Indonesia boat accidents up to 34

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 4:56 am

Flares light up the sky over Gaza City, Friday Aug. 1, 2014. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel will destroy Hamas' tunnel network in the Gaza Strip designed for deadly attacks inside Israel, "with or without a cease-fire." Israel expanded what started July 8 as an aerial campaign against Hamas and widened it into a ground offensive on July 17. Since then, Israel says the campaign has concentrated on destroying cross-border tunnels militants constructed to carry out attacks inside Israeli territory and ending rocket attacks on its cities. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Heavy Gaza fighting ahead of proposed 3-day truce

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 4:21 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 16, 2014, file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas listens to Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby, during their meeting at his residence in Cairo, Egypt. Nearly a month into Israel's fierce assault on Hamas in Gaza, Abbas is facing mounting domestic pressure to seek war crimes charges against Israel at the International Criminal Court. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Abbas seeks broad support for war crimes charges

KARIN LAUBJOHN HEILPRIN · August 1, 2014 3:58 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference addressed jointly with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 31, 2014. This is Kerry's first visit to India following the resounding election win of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, Pool)

Gaza truce comes after days of pushing for a deal

Lara Jakes · August 1, 2014 2:24 am

Indian villagers watch rescue operations at the site of a massive landslide in Malin village in Pune district of western Maharashtra state, India, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Two days of torrential rains triggered the landslide early Wednesday, killing more than two dozen people and trapping more than 150, authorities said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Death toll hits 51 from mudslide in Indian village

Manish Mehta · August 1, 2014 2:13 am

Officials: US citizen killed by bandits in Haiti

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 1:11 am

Australia welcomes Gaza ceasefire as ‘marvelous’

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 12:59 am

Rockets are fired from Gaza Strip towards Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014, as international efforts to end the 23-day-old conflict seemed to sputter despite concern over the mounting death toll. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Top UN aid official urges daily ‘pauses’ in Gaza

Edith Lederer · July 31, 2014 11:00 pm

Power gradually being restored in Colombia city

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2014 10:51 pm

Palestinian Heygar Jendiyah, gestures as she speaks to the photographer, while her daughter Ranin, 10, stands background, at the house, partially destroyed by an Israeli strike earlier during the war, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The building houses 21 members of the extended family, and now with several rooms destroyed, they try to go about their lives, without electricity and without running water for several hours a day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

US, UN announce deal on 72-hour Gaza cease-fire

IAN DEITCHIBRAHIM BARZAK · July 31, 2014 10:30 pm