Tag: World

FILE - In this July 4, 2014 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye attend the Korea China Investment Forum at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea. Moscow is cozying up to its old rival China. China is holding hands with Seoul. Tokyo is striking deals with Pyongyang. In the ever-shifting game of Asian alliances, where just about everybody has a dispute over something or can actually remember a shooting war with their neighbors, past grudges run deep. But expedience and pragmatism often run deeper. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-ji, Pool, File)

Expedience, pragmatism shape new Asian alliances

Eric Talmadge · July 8, 2014 12:05 pm

Oscar Pistorius arrives at court in Pretoria, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel has challenged the credibility of a physician, Wayne Derman, who testified that the athlete has an anxious nature linked to his disability and could not be objective about the double-amputee runner because he had treated Pistorius over many years and traveled with him extensively. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Pistorius defense team closes case

Christopher Torchia · July 8, 2014 8:23 am

In this June 27, 2014 photo, tears roll down the face of Shamshu Nahad after she learned that her newly born daughter has died in Dar Paing, a camp for Rohingya Muslims in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Living under apartheid-like conditions, she and other residents have little or no access to life-saving medical care, food, clean water, or jobs. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Myanmar camp baby a brief chapter in painful story

Esther Htusan · July 8, 2014 5:40 am

Route of proposed Nicaraguan canal unveiled

LUIS MANUEL GALEANO · July 8, 2014 3:17 am

Secretary of State John Kerry greets media representatives flying aboard his plane bound for diplomatic talks in China while flying from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, July 7, 2014. Kerry is heading to Beijing to participate in the sixth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

National Security

Kerry: Afghan power grab would mean US aid cutoff

Bradley Klapper · July 8, 2014 3:09 am

Robbers loot Samsung plant in Brazil

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · July 8, 2014 2:36 am

French, US leaders press for Ukraine cease-fire

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 2:15 am

Vietnam raises helicopter crash death toll to 18

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 2:15 am

2nd Chinese company plans to sue over Transformers

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 1:55 am

Palestinians carry bodies of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam Brigades members who were killed in an airstrike during a funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on Monday, July 7, 2014. The Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza vowed revenge on Israel for the death of several of its members killed in an airstrike early Monday morning in the deadliest exchange of fire since the latest round of attacks began weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli army launches offensive on Gaza Strip

Daniel Estrin · July 8, 2014 1:54 am

The Iranian flag flies in front of a U.N. building where closed-door nuclear talks take place at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Friday, July 4, 2014.

National Security

Diplomats: Iran nuke talks make little progress

George Jahn · July 8, 2014 1:32 am

Iran leader rejects pressures at nuclear talks

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 12:55 am