Tag: World

China lifts quarantine after man dies of plague

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 5:27 am

Philippines deports Australian Islamic preacher

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 5:25 am

U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos speaks during exclusive interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Amos said in an interview in Tokyo on Thursday that the top priority is protecting civilians caught up in the violence. She called it a âterrible, terrible situation.â (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

UN humanitarian chief calls for aid revamp

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 5:11 am

A International Red Cross employee runs for cover after an Israeli strike during a two-hour temporary ceasefire in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Israeli troops battled Hamas militants on Wednesday near a southern Gaza Strip town as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reported progress in efforts to broker a truce in a war that has so far killed more than 650 Palestinians and at least 30 Israelis. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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US pushes for truce as Gaza battle rages

IBRAHIM BARZAKTIA GOLDENBERG · July 24, 2014 4:46 am

FILE - Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a news conference in Sydney, Australia, in this July 19, 2014 file photo. Abbott said on Wednesday July 23, 2014 he was discussing with government leaders options for securing the 50-square kilometer (20-square mile) crash site, including his preferred option of a multinational security force mounted by countries such as Australia, Netherlands and Malaysia that lost citizens in the disaster. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australia vows help to secure Ukraine crash site

Rod McGuirk · July 24, 2014 4:31 am

Supporters placed life-size cardboard cutouts of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez outside the Justice Palace as the trial against Lopez for inciting violence at anti-government protests began, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Lopez is the head of the Popular Will party. Before turning himself in to authorities in February, he had been spearheading a movement to force President Nicolas Maduro's resignation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader goes on trial

Jorge Rueda · July 24, 2014 3:44 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in the capital, Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Ban is in the Middle East to meet regional leaders and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make the highest-level push to end the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi, Pool)

Rockets found at UN Gaza school went missing

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 1:02 am

Venezuelan network Telesur expands into English

Jorge Rueda · July 24, 2014 12:57 am

A Palestinian youth carries blankets donated to the United Nations school where hundreds of families sought refuge after fleeing their homes due to heavy Israeli missile strikes in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes and are staying in 77 UN shelters, according to UNRWA, the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians. The number of people who have been forced to seek shelter has increased nearly six-fold since the start of Israel's ground operation. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Casualty numbers raise questions about Gaza war

KARIN LAUBYOUSUR ALHLOU · July 24, 2014 12:05 am

Migrants Back in Honduras After US Deports

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 11:43 pm

In this Saturday, July 19, 2014 photo, Elsa Ramirez, 27, deported a day earlier from the United States, stands just inside the doorway of her mother's home, in Tocoa, Honduras. Ramirez had heard that mothers traveling to the U.S. with children would be allowed to stay if they made it across the border, so she took off for the north with her 8-year-old daughter, Sandra, and 5-year-old son, Cesar, named for his dead father. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Honduran families deported back to a bleak future

Sonia Perez · July 23, 2014 11:34 pm

Patients of Larco Herrera Psychiatric Hospital march in their own Peruvian Independence Day parade through hospital grounds, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. The annual parade is organized ahead of Peru's official Independence Day celebrations on July 28. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Patriotic parade at big Peru psychiatric hospital

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 11:15 pm