Tag: World

In this June 22, 2014, photo, performers ride a horse during one of their routines with the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City. Recent legislation in the city will ban animals from the circus once the law takes effect next year. The law promises steep fines for noncompliance. (AP Photo/Sean Havey)

AP PHOTOS: Mexico City circus acts fear animal ban

Sean Havey · June 27, 2014 2:15 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, June 26, 2014, a protester wears a hand-shaped mask reading: "Stop Wars" during a rally in front of the Japanese prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Japan's ruling party and its coalition partner were near agreement Friday, June 27 on a major shift in the country's restrictive defensive policy that would allow the military to help defend other nations. The planned change is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to allow Japan to play a more assertive role in international security amid China's growing military presence and rising regional tensions. The banner at right reads: "We will never let Japan go to war." (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Japan ruling bloc near agreement on security shift

Mari Yamaguchi · June 27, 2014 2:11 pm

In this image taken from video, flames rise in the background of houses after a state-owned gas pipeline exploded in Nagaram village, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Friday, June 27, 2014. A top official of the state-run Gas Authority of India Ltd, said more than a dozen people died in the fire following the explosion in the pipeline. (AP Photo/NNIS via AP Video) INDIA OUT

India pipeline blast kills 15 people, guts houses

Omer Farooq · June 27, 2014 1:51 pm

Hong Kong lawyers march in a Hong Kong street, Friday, June 27, 2014. Hundreds of Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black have marched in silence to protest a recent Beijing policy statement they say undermines the Asian financial hub's rule of law. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Beijing meddling with HK, protesting lawyers say

Kelvin Chan · June 27, 2014 1:45 pm

Sierra Leone warns of contact with Ebola infected

Clarence Macaulay · June 27, 2014 1:16 pm

Fans of Uruguay's national soccer team await the arrival of Uruguay player Luis Suarez at Carrasco International Airport in the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, June 26, 2014. The Uruguay forward, widely regarded as one of the best players in the world, was banned by FIFA from all football for four months on Thursday for biting an Italian opponent in an incident that marred the team's victory and progression to the second round. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Banned Suarez back home; misses crowd in Uruguay

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 1:12 pm

Syrian troops advance near Lebanon border

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 12:57 pm

German court frees alleged ex-guerrilla

Frank Jordans · June 27, 2014 12:57 pm

Vatican ex-ambassador to Dominican Republic convicted by church court of sex abuse, defrocked

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 12:30 pm

United States' head coach Juergen Klinsmann, left and Germany's head coach Joachim Loew greet each other after the group G World Cup soccer match between the USA and Germany at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, Thursday, June 26, 2014. Germany beat the United States 1-0. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

US ready to take on Belgium in World Cup

Ronald Blum · June 27, 2014 11:28 am

UN: 110,000 fled Ukraine for Russia this year

John Heilprin · June 27, 2014 11:24 am

In this Saturday, April 26, 2014, photo, a Royal Bengal tiger prowls in Sunderbans, at the Sunderban delta, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Calcutta, India. An Indian fisherman says a tiger has snatched a man off a fishing boat and dragged him away into a mangrove swamp. (AP Photo/Joydip Kundu)

Tiger leaps onto boat, snatches man in east India

Prasanta Paul · June 27, 2014 11:05 am