Tag: World

Raw: Rockets Fired at Israel From Lebanon

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 4:50 am

A Filipino walks small fishing boats docked beside a coastal village of Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines as they prepare for a coming storm on Monday, July 14, 2014. The Philippines is bracing for possible floods and landslides as Tropical Storm Rammasun, locally called "Glenda", intensified while moving closer to the eastern seaboard. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Energy and Environment

Philippines braces for floods, slides from typhoon

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 3:29 am

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon greets residents during the launching of sanitation campaign in Hinche, Haiti, Monday, July 14, 2014. The Secretary-General arrived in rural Haiti on Monday to help launch a program to improve sanitation and fight the spread of cholera, a disease that many Haitians blame U.N. peacekeepers for introducing to the impoverished Caribbean country. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

UN chief in Haiti launches sanitation program

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 2:32 am

A Palestinian mourner cries as she talks to a TV journalist, while the bodies of Mousa Abu Muamer, 56, and his son Saddam, 27, who were killed in an overnight Israeli missile strike at their house are brought in during their funeral procession, on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 14, 2014. Saddam's wife Hanadi, 27, was also killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Egypt proposes cease-fire between Israel, Hamas

JOSEF FEDERMANMAGGIE MICHAEL · July 15, 2014 2:06 am

Pakistani teen seeks release of Nigerian girls

LEKAN OYEKANMIMICHELLE FAUL · July 14, 2014 11:28 pm

Afghan presidential candidate and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his residence in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 14, 2014. Ahmadzai said that a U.S.-brokered deal for a full ballot audit pulled the country back from the brink and put government legitimacy back on track. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Vote deal will work, Afghan candidate tells AP

John Daniszewski · July 14, 2014 10:48 pm

British Foreign Secretary William Hague inform the media in front of Hotel Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Foreign ministers are adding their diplomatic muscle to try and advance troubled nuclear talks with Iran, with a target date only a week away for a pact meant to curb programs Tehran could turn to making atomic arms. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

UK foreign minister William Hague stepping down

Jill Lawless · July 14, 2014 10:08 pm

UN mission evacuates from Libya amid clashes

Washington Examiner · July 14, 2014 10:00 pm

In this combo picture the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia is seen as it moves away from the underwater platform where it laid, during operations to put it afloat, on the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, July 14, 2014. The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been successfully put afloat in preparation to tow it away for scrapping. Authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded without a hitch early Monday. The cruise liner struck a reef in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people. (AP Photo/Giacomo Aprili)

Shipwrecked Concordia floated for tow to Genoa

Annalisa Camilli · July 14, 2014 9:34 pm

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, second right, and unidentified members of the clergy, arrive for the General Synod meeting, at The University of York, in York England, Monday July 14, 2014. The Church of England is set to vote on whether women should be allowed to enter its top ranks as bishops. The Church's national assembly, known as the General Synod, is meeting in York, northern England, where it will debate the issue ahead of a vote Monday. (AP Photo/PA, Lynne Cameron) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Church of England says yes to women bishops

Matthew Knight · July 14, 2014 9:26 pm

A child sleeps in a woman's arms after arriving on a military plane from Gaza, at the Romanian Air Force Base 90, outside Bucharest, Romania, Monday, July 14, 2014. A group of 84 people from mixed Romanian-Palestinian families fled the conflict area and were flown out of the Gaza strip at their request by the Romanian authorities. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

European countries evacuate citizens from Gaza

Washington Examiner · July 14, 2014 8:58 pm

FILE - In this July 7, 2014, file photo, Ray Whelan, a longstanding director and project manager within the MATCH group, arrives at a police station after been arrested, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Whelan, a top figure in an alleged illegal World Cup ticket-scalping scheme surrendered to Brazilian officials Monday July 14, 2014, four days after police labeled him a fugitive, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Str, file)

World Cup ticket-scalping suspect surrenders

Bradley Brooks · July 14, 2014 8:53 pm