Tag: World

Couple convicted of killing parents in cash scam

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 12:40 pm

Kurdish security forces prepare combat positions while a Kurdish flag flies outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. As Sunni insurgents swept over a large chunk of northern Iraq and barreled toward Baghdad the past two weeks, Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga seized territory of their own, effectively expanding the Kurdish-run region into areas it has long claimed for itself. Most notably, they grabbed the oil center of Kirkuk. And in contrast to the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, which is in turmoil, the Kurds are growing more confident, vowing to increase oil sales independent of the central government. (AP Photo)

Kurds emerge as winners in Iraq chaos

DIAA HADIDEMAD MATTI · June 20, 2014 12:36 pm

FILE - In this April 17, 2014 file photo, Kim Han-sik, CEO of Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd., which owns the sunken ferry Sewol, is escorted by helpers to hold a press conference at Incheon Port International Passenger Terminal in Incheon, South Korea. Kim, 71, did not deny that the ferry was overloaded with cargo and had been redesigned, but contended that it was questionable whether those factors led to the sinking, according to his lawyer, Kang Seok-won. Prosecutors on Friday said the CEO and four employees of the operator of the sunken ferry caused the accident by overloading the ship with poorly stowed cargo after a risky redesign and neglecting safety by spending less than $2 last year on crew training. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT

S. Korean ferry operator CEO blamed for sinking

Youkyung Lee · June 20, 2014 12:07 pm

Iran convicts 2 men of spying for Britain, Israel

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 12:06 pm

People try to save a man from the floods in the Black sea town of Varna, Bulgaria, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Two people and a child are reported dead and four more are missing. Torrential rain caused severe flooding in Bulgaria, sweeping away cars, reducing scores of homes to rubble, the country's civil defense authority said. (AP Photo/ImpactPressGroup)

12 die in flooding in Bulgaria after heavy rain

Veselin Toshkov · June 20, 2014 11:55 am

AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in exile dream of return

Muhammed Muheisen · June 20, 2014 11:48 am

FILE - Undated file image shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, Poland, which was liberated by the Russians, January 1945. Writing over the gate reads: "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes free - or work liberates). Johann Breyer, 89 faces possible extradition. A German court has charged him with aiding in the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children during World War II. Breyer was arrested Tuesday outside his home in northeast Philadelphia. He has lived in the U.S. since 1952. Breyer has admitted he was an SS guard at Auschwitz in occupied Poland.

Unclear when US Nazi suspect could be extradited

David Rising · June 20, 2014 11:01 am

Pope to legalizing recreational drugs: Just say no

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 10:31 am

Danish photographer freed after 13 months in Syria

Jan Olsen · June 20, 2014 9:07 am

**TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED NEPAL SHERPAS BY BINAJ GURUBACHARYA** In this Thursday, June 19, 2014, photo, a Nepalese woman walks past a big banner of Sherpa in Katmandu, Nepal. The deadliest disaster in Everest history _an avalanche that swept 16 Sherpas to their death in April as they ferried clients' equipment up the mountain, have finally shaken most of them, now, more and more Sherpas have decided that the dangers of their chosen profession outweigh the financial advantages. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s Sherpas drift away from mountaineering

BiNaj Gurubacharya · June 20, 2014 8:50 am

Japanese farmer Masami Yoshizawa, right, shows a black bull with speckles to the media as police officers block him from leading the bull off a truck he drove from Fukushima, northeastern Japan, in front of Agriculture Ministry in Tokyo Friday, June 20, 2014. Yoshizawa and fellow farmer Naoto Matsumura whose livelihoods were wrecked by the March 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have staged a protest briefly at the ministry to appeal for help with the livestock, some of which have developed unexplained white spots on their hides. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Fukushima farmers appeal to Tokyo with live bull

Elaine Kurtenbach · June 20, 2014 8:47 am

CEO of South Korean ferry operator to enter plea

Youkyung Lee · June 20, 2014 5:33 am