Tag: World

People inspect the destroyed Mosque of The Prophet Younis, or Jonah in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 24, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed on Thursday by militants who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law. The mosque was built on an archaeological site dating back to 8th century BC, and is said to be the burial place of the prophet, who in stories from both the Bible and Quran is swallowed by a whale. (AP Photo)

Iraq elects new president as attacks kill dozens

SAMEER N. YACOUBQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · July 24, 2014 7:13 pm

Israel swears in new president amid Gaza war

Tia Goldenberg · July 24, 2014 7:07 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 file photo, a watch tower overlooks the area near the Polish intelligence school just outside of Stare Kiejkuty, Poland. The installation had become the focal point of allegations of secret CIA prisons in Poland. Europe's top human rights court ruled Thursday, July 24, 2014, that Poland violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the CIA to secretly imprison them on Polish soil from 2002-2003 and facilitating the conditions under which they were subject to torture. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Court: Poland violated human rights in CIA case

Vanessa Gera · July 24, 2014 6:52 pm

Jewish group wants Turkish PM to return award

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 6:32 pm

Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev, in handcuffs, shows V-signs from a defendant's cage in a court room prior to a hearing in the Bolotnaya square protest trial in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev are waiting for the sentence Thursday in the Moscow city court on charges of organizing mass riots and colluding to commit a crime. They both pleaded not guilty in a trial that has dragged on since October 2012, when they were detained and put under house arrest. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russians sentenced to 4 ½ years on riot conviction

Laura Mills · July 24, 2014 6:31 pm

Kenyan police officers load the body of a female tourist into a police vehicle in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. A Kenya police official says a female tourist has been shot dead in the coastal town of Mombasa, the second foreigner shot in same area this month. (AP Photo)

Gunmen kill female tourist on Kenya coast

Tom Odula · July 24, 2014 6:21 pm

Ricky Martin to be judge on ‘The Voice … Mexico’

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 5:55 pm

Poland cancels plans for cultural year with Russia

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 5:44 pm

London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’

Jill Lawless · July 24, 2014 5:25 pm

US pulls Peace Corps volunteers from Kenya

Jason Straziuso · July 24, 2014 5:05 pm

UN chief condemns attack on UN school in Gaza

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 4:34 pm

Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, right, holds her baby girl Maya, accompanied by Italian deputy Foreign Miinister Lapo Pistelli, holding her son Martin, followed by Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, second from right, Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, second from left, and his wife Agnese Landini, after landing from Khartoum, at Ciampino's military airport, on the outskirts of Rome, Thursday, July 24, 2014. The Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to recant her Christian faith has arrived in Italy along with her family, including an infant born in prison. An Italian diplomat who accompanied the family from Sudan said Italy leveraged its historic ties within the Horn of Africa region to help win her release. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope meets Sudanese woman sentenced to death

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 4:16 pm