Tag: World

Israel's President Shimon Peres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, at his residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Peres said the killing of civilians by Israeli air raids on Gaza presents a moral dilemma, but argues there is scant alternative as long as the Islamic militants who rule the coastal strip refuse to stop firing rockets at much of Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

AP INTERVIEW: Israel’s Peres defends airstrikes

Dan Perry · July 15, 2014 9:20 pm

Israeli President: Hamas Out of Options

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 9:12 pm

Millions watch UN music video on LGBT rights

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 8:41 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 file photo Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock in Pretoria, South Africa, at his murder trial for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on St. Valentine's Day, 2013. In newspaper reports Pistorius has been accused of an aggressive altercation at a Johannesburg nightclub he visited at the weekend. A spokeswoman for the Pistorius family said an argument ensued and the athlete, who is free on bail, soon left the club. He had been seated in a quiet booth in the VIP section, she said in a statement. (AP Photo/Alon Skuy, Pool, File)

Pistorius gets into nightclub argument

Christopher Torchia · July 15, 2014 8:24 pm

Igor Chernetsov whose wife was killed in collapsed building during airstrike gestures near his house in Snizhne, 100 kms east from the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 15, 2014. An airstrike demolished an apartment block in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least nine civilians, rescue workers said. The attack adds to the steadily growing number of civilians killed over four months in a dogged pro-Russian insurgency. Government officials denied the Tuesday strike was carried out by Ukraine's air force. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · July 15, 2014 8:10 pm

Raw: Ukraine Airstrike Hits Apartments, 11 Dead

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 7:45 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 27, 2010 file photo, Sunni lawmaker Salim al-Jubouri speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers broke their deadlock Tuesday and elected Sunni lawmaker Salim al-Jubouri as the new speaker of parliament, taking the first formal step toward forming a new government that is widely seen as crucial to confronting militants who have overrun much of the country. According to the constitution, parliament now has 30 days to elect a president, who will then have 15 days to ask the leader of the largest bloc in the legislature to form a government. Then a prime minister will be picked. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraqi parliament breaks deadlock to elect speaker

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRASINAN SALAHEDDIN · July 15, 2014 6:39 pm

In this Monday, July 14, 2014 photo, sisters Mariam Attar, center right, and Sada Attar, center left, rest with their children inside the New Gaza Boys United Nations School after fleeing their home in fear of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their neighborhood in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Scars show as Gaza’s children endure third war

Karin Laub · July 15, 2014 6:21 pm

Pope seeks protection of young US-bound migrants

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 6:09 pm

In this frame grab provided by the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations shows frame grab from a video showing rescue teams working inside the tunnel where several cars of the wrecked train look almost coiled, occupying the entire space of the tunnel of Moscow subway in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Workers were seen trying to force open the mangled doors of the car where dead bodies are supposed to be. A rush-hour subway train derailed in Moscow Tuesday, killing about a dozen people and injuring at least 150, emergency officials said. Several cars left the track in the tunnel after a power surge triggered an alarm, which caused the train to stop abruptly. (AP Photo/Russian Emergency Situation Ministry)

Rush-hour Moscow subway derails: 21 dead, 136 hurt

VITNIJA SALDAVANATALIYA VASILYEVA · July 15, 2014 5:41 pm

Afghanistan Suicide Attack Deadliest Since 2001

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 5:12 pm

Netanyahu says Israel will exert “great force” against Hamas after it rejected truce

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 5:06 pm