Tag: World

Nita-Minttu Tirkkonen pictured in Helsinki Regional Court, in Helsinki, Finland, Thursday May 26, 2014. A court in Finland has convicted a man and a woman of plotting to kill dozens of people at the country's largest university and sentenced them to at least three years each in prison. In its Friday June 27 2014 verdict, the Helsinki Regional Court found the pair, both aged 24, guilty of possessing weapons, ammunition and chemicals meant "for the mass murder of at least 50 people, chosen randomly." They also planned to rob a gun store to increase their arsenal for the attack, the court said. It sentenced Nita-Minttu Tirkkonen to three years in prison and gave Josef Andrei Hannu a 37-month prison term, including for the possession of child pornography. (AP Photo /LEHTIKUVA / Antti Aimo-Koivisto) FINLAND OUT

Finland finds pair guilty of mass murder plot

Matti Huuhtanen · June 27, 2014 6:12 pm

Rita de Cassia Marciano, who is a "mae de santa," or practitioner of the syncretic Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble, prepares to attend clients in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 26, 2014. Unlike her compatriots, Rita de Cassia Marciano doesn't get too stressed out during Brazil's World Cup matches. She knows Brazil is going to win its sixth title: The gods told her so. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

‘Candomble’ seer says gods with Brazil team

Jenny Barchfield · June 27, 2014 5:42 pm

Bosnian actor Jovan Mojsilovic poses with a plastic replica gun during ceremony of unveiling statue of Gavrilo Princip in Istocno Sarajevo, on Friday, June 27, 2014. Marking the centennial of the beginning of World War I in their own way, Bosnian Serbs have unveiled a monument of Gavrilo Princip in the Eastern part of Sarajevo to the man who ignited the war by assassinating the Austro-Hungarian crown prince on June 28, 1914.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Bosnian Serbs erect statue to man who ignited WWI

Aida Cerkez · June 27, 2014 5:40 pm

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, during an EU Summit meeting in Brussels on Friday, June 27, 2014. European Union leaders are set to nominate former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to become the 28-nation blocâs new chief executive despite strong British opposition. The leaders at their summit Friday in Brusssels planned to elect Juncker with overwhelming majority as the candidate they will propose to the European Parliament. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Juncker is new EU leader despite British wishes

Juergen Baetz · June 27, 2014 5:33 pm

Entrance to German cave sealed after rescue

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 5:04 pm

Monaco's honorary Polish consul, Wojciech Janowski, partially hidden, leaves in a car the Nice police station, southeastern France , Friday, June 27, 2014. Janowski is suspected by investigators of having ordered the murder of his step-mother, Helene Pastor, a real-estate heiress in Monaco, last May 6 in Nice. Pastor and her driver died some days later. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Prosecutor: Diplomat ordered Monaco heiress killed

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 4:55 pm

Emin’s messy bed could fetch million at auction

Jill Lawless · June 27, 2014 4:13 pm

Afghanistan's presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, center, waves to his supporters during a protest against election fraud in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June 27, 2014. Afghanistan's security situation has been complicated by a political crisis stemming from allegations of massive fraud in the recent election to replace President Hamid Karzai, the only leader the country has known since the Taliban regime was ousted nearly 13 years ago. Abdullah Abdullah, one of two candidates who competed a runoff vote on June 14 suspended his relations with the Independent Election Commission after he accused electoral officials of engineering extensive vote rigging, allegations they have denied. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Thousands of Afghans protest alleged vote fraud

Amir Shah · June 27, 2014 3:50 pm

Lebanese army and plainclothes policemen gather outside the Duroy hotel where a suicide bomber blew himself up in his room, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, as Lebanese security forces raided the premises. The bombing is the latest in a string of attacks and security sweeps in Lebanon over the past week that have sparked fears of renewed violence in a country that has been deeply affected by the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Islamic State claims Lebanon suicide bombing

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 3:41 pm

Remembering the Spark for WWI

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 3:12 pm

Syrian opposition asks for help in 2-front fight

Lara Jakes · June 27, 2014 2:47 pm

FILE - In this file image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim breastfeeds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail last week, as the NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned was freed again on Thursday, June 26, 2014, after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)

Sudanese Christian woman inside US embassy

Mohamed Osman · June 27, 2014 2:34 pm