Tag: World

UN presses for Mali peace talks starting Aug. 17

Edith Lederer · July 29, 2014 12:16 am

In this photo taken on Sunday, July 27, 2014, Medical personnel inside a clinic taking care of Ebola patients in the Kenema District on the outskirts of Kenema, Sierra Leone. Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has closed some border crossings and ordered strict quarantines of communities affected by the Ebola outbreak. The announcement late Sunday came a day after Sirleaf formed a new taskforce charged with containing the disease, which has killed 129 people in the country and more than 670 across the region.(AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah)

New fears about Ebola spread after plane scare

KRISTA LARSONMARIA CHENG · July 28, 2014 11:39 pm

Dominican officials destroy 2,000 seized guns

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 10:36 pm

Brazil’s leader calls Gaza conflict ‘a massacre’

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 10:19 pm

CORRECTS DATE TO 2014 Former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal arrives at the Queen Beatrix International Airport in Oranjestad, Aruba, Sunday July 27, 2014 after being released by authorities. Carvajal was detained in Aruba on U.S. drug charges, released by the Dutch Caribbean island Sunday and sent home, authorities said Sunday.(AP Photo/Pedro Famous Diaz)

US: ‘Threats’ behind release of Venezuela general

Hannah Dreier · July 28, 2014 10:07 pm

A Palestinian carries the body of a child at the morgue in Gaza City's Shifa hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 28, 2014. An explosion killed 10 people, 9 of them children, at a park at Shati refugee camp, in northern Gaza Strip. Israeli and Palestinian authorities traded blame over the attack and fighting in the war raged on despite a major Muslim holiday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Hamas, Israel trade blame for deaths of 9 children

IBRAHIM BARZAKYOUSUR ALHLOU · July 28, 2014 9:52 pm

France offers asylum to Christians of north Iraq

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 9:37 pm

Obama: Female oppression crippling parts of Africa

Nedra Pickler · July 28, 2014 9:28 pm

Smoke from shelling rises over a residential apartment house in Shakhtarsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Monday, July 28, 2014. An international police team abandoned its attempt to reach the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane for a second day running Monday as clashes raged in a town on the road to the area.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Fighting in Ukraine prompts residents to flee

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · July 28, 2014 8:57 pm

Rights group: Torture in Brazil still a problem

Stan Lehman · July 28, 2014 8:47 pm

Malta oil worker kidnapped in Libya released

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 8:17 pm

Black smoke billows over the skyline as a fire at the oil depot for the airport rages out of control after being struck in the crossfire of warring militias battling for control of the airfield, in Tripoli, Libya Monday, July 28, 2014. The latest violence to plague the country has so far killed scores of people and wounded hundreds as foreigners flee the chaos. Libya's interim government said in a statement that the fire could trigger a "humanitarian and environmental disaster" in Tripoli, appealing for "international help" to extinguish the inferno. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ben Khalifa)

Oil depot ablaze amid clashes in Libyan capital

Maamoun Youssef · July 28, 2014 7:31 pm