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In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008 file photo, an aerial photo reviewed by the Chinese military, the dragon-shaped Pangu Plaza, foreground builds in front of the National Aquatics Center, known as the Water Cube, center, and the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, at rear, in Beijing, China. A Beijing property developer said Saturday it has terminated cooperation with the new âTransformersâ movie, wants Paramount Pictures to make edits to it and is asking China to suspend screenings of the blockbuster film. The company owns the Pangu Plaza, a dragon-shaped hotel, office and mall complex that stretches the length of half a dozen football fields and is featured in âTransformers: Age of Extinction,â the latest installment of the hit franchise. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)

Chinese company sets aside ‘Transformer’ dispute

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 6:14 pm

Kremlin says Putin talks to Obama, urges direct talks between warring parties in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 5:55 pm

Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a return to Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan during their first round match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Djokovic easily advances with 1st round win

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 5:49 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Syria: 4 killed, 9 wounded in Israeli airstrikes

RYAN LUCASJOSEF FEDERMAN · June 23, 2014 5:36 pm

Ebola cases rise in Africa as doctors sound alarm

Paul Schemm · June 23, 2014 5:27 pm

Explosion at medical school in Nigeria’s Kano city

IBRAHIM GARBAMICHELLE FAUL · June 23, 2014 5:18 pm

Insurgents in Ukraine agree to honor cease-fire, engage in more talks to help resolve conflict

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 4:59 pm

Afghanistan's presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, center, leaves after a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 23, 2014. Afghanistan's chief electoral officer resigned Monday in a bid to resolve a political crisis over allegations of massive fraud in the runoff presidential vote earlier this month. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan official quits in bid to end crisis

RAHIM FAIEZAMIR SHAH · June 23, 2014 4:38 pm

Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club on ‘Adios Tour’

Andrea Rodriguez · June 23, 2014 4:22 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, June 20, 2014, Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel in Hamra street in Beirut, Lebanon. An al-Qaida breakaway group's seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria has sent tremors across the Middle East, jolting neighboring countries into action over fears that the Islamic militants may set their sights on them next. In Lebanon heavily armed police busted a suspected sleeper cell allegedly linked to the group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, in raids on two hotels in central Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Militant group’s surge in Iraq fans regional fears

RYAN LUCASOMAR AKOUR · June 23, 2014 4:11 pm

Egypt sentences Christian convert to 5 years

Mamdouh Thabit · June 23, 2014 4:07 pm

FILE - In this June, 22, 1971 file photo, from left, Felix Dennis, Richard Neville and Jim Anderson, the three editors of Oz Publications Inc. Ltd pose for a photograph. Publisher Felix Dennis, who co-edited 1960s underground magazine Oz and went on to build a magazine empire, has died. He was 67 and had cancer. His office said Monday, June 23, 2014 that Dennis died at his home in Dorsington, central England, a day earlier. An enthusiastic participant in the 1960s counterculture, Dennis came to prominence as a defendant in the 1971 trial of Oz for "conspiracy to corrupt public morals." (AP Photo, File)UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Felix Dennis, counterculture publisher, dies at 67

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 4:03 pm