Tag: World

Kurdish peshmerga fighters clean their weapons at a base on the closet front line with militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in Tuz Khormato, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the oil rich province of Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. A defiant Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected calls Wednesday for an interim "national salvation government" intended to undermine the Sunni insurgency by presenting a unified front among Iraq's three main groups, calling it a "coup against the constitution." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq

HAMZA HENDAWILARA JAKES · June 25, 2014 10:50 pm

Centerpiece

jsohnj.sohn · June 25, 2014 10:00 pm

Nigeria's coach Stephen Keshi gives instructions to his players during the group F World Cup soccer match against Argentina at the Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Nigeria coach saddened by explosion at home

Chris Brummitt · June 25, 2014 9:56 pm

Rescue services work at the scene of an explosion at a shopping mall in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. An explosion rocked a shopping mall in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on Wednesday and police say at least over 20 people have been killed and many wounded. Witnesses say body parts were scattered around the exit to Emab Plaza, in the upscale Wuse 11 suburb. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

Explosion rocks mall in Nigerian capital

BASHIR ADIGUNHARUNA UMAR · June 25, 2014 9:51 pm

FILE - In this July 27, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un leans over a balcony and waves to Korean War veterans cheering below at the end of a mass military parade on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice. North Korea is warning that the release of a new American comedy about a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un would be an "act of war." If the U.S. government doesn't block the movie's release, it will face "stern" and "merciless" retaliation, an unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in state media Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

National Security

North Korea’s take on new US movie: “Act of war”

Washington Examiner · June 25, 2014 9:45 pm

Wife of US man jailed in Cuba says he’s despondent

Peter Orsi · June 25, 2014 9:42 pm

American talk show host Seth Meyers poses for photographers prior to Valentino men's Spring-Summer 2015 fashion collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Seth Meyers starts Paris fashion week with giggles

Thomas Adamson · June 25, 2014 9:38 pm

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk listens to lawmakers in the parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Tusk asked lawmakers for an urgent confidence vote in his government, which has been rocked by leaking tapes of private conversations of top state officials. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Lawmakers support Polish PM in confidence vote

Monika Scislowska · June 25, 2014 9:32 pm

Mexico judge orders priest’s arrest in abuse case

Washington Examiner · June 25, 2014 9:10 pm

Protesters shout slogans as Zhang Zhijun, minister of Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, arrived at airport in Taoyuan county, Taiwan, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. China has sent Zhang, its first ever ministerial-level official to Taiwan for four days of meetings to rebuild ties with the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own, after mass protests in Taipei set back relations earlier this year. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

In a first, China sends a minister to Taiwan

Ralph Jennings · June 25, 2014 9:06 pm

FILE - In this June 11, 2014 file photo, former Bayonne's hospital doctor Nicolas Bonnemaison arrives at the courthouse of Pau, southwestern France, for the first day of his trial on poisoning charges, for having given lethal injections to help seven terminally ill patients die. Simultaneously, Europe's top human rights court ordered doctors to continue treatment for a man left comatose after a car accident six years ago, overruling a French panel in a highly unusual late-night decision. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Beyond cure? Europe euthanasia rulings sear debate

Lori Hinnant · June 25, 2014 9:02 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians gather at the site of a car bombing in Homs, Syria, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. An explosion struck the central Syrian city of Homs, killing and wounding several people, in the latest blast to hit the city in recent weeks, Syrian media and an activist group said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Al-Qaida in border town pledges loyalty to rivals

Zeina Karam · June 25, 2014 8:44 pm