Tag: World

More refugees granted asylum in Europe last year

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 12:51 pm

A Sri Lankan Muslim man leans against a letter box as he waits out side a closed shop during a shut down protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Muslims have shut down their shops in Sri Lanka's capital to protest attacks by hard-line Buddhists on Muslims and are demanding the government punish those responsible for the violence. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Muslims close shops to protest Sri Lanka attacks

Bharatha Mallawarachi · June 19, 2014 12:45 pm

Spain’s new King Felipe aims to inspire his people

HAROLD HECKLEBARRY HATTON · June 19, 2014 12:32 pm

Outside view of the UN building where closed-door nuclear talks take place photographed in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Deadlock continues at Iran-6-power nuclear talks

George Jahn · June 19, 2014 12:22 pm

From the dust, glittering Louvre show emerges

Thomas Adamson · June 19, 2014 12:08 pm

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres greets a Syrian child during his visit to Khaldeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Guterres is visiting Lebanon where he will meet some Syrian refugees and discuss the situation with Lebanese officials. Lebanon, home to 4.5 million people, is struggling to cope with the presence of more than 1 million refugees in desperate need of housing, education and medical care. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Watchdog accuses Syria’s Kurdish party of abuses

Barbara Surk · June 19, 2014 11:17 am

Court stops Australian funding of school chaplains

Rod McGuirk · June 19, 2014 11:12 am

New director appointed for Berlin Jewish Museum

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 10:52 am

Raw: Chile Celebrates Big World Cup Win

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 9:37 am

Chinese man gets death penalty for 1-child dispute

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 8:51 am

Members of Malaysian Civil Defense Department on a speed boat search for missing Indonesians of a sunken boat off west coast in Banting, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, June 19, 2014. An overcrowded wooden boat on Wednesday carrying Indonesian illegal immigrants home sank in choppy seas, with 25 people still missing. Ten people died in that accident, but at least 62 people survived. (AP Photo)

9 missing after second boat sinks off Malaysia

Eileen Ng · June 19, 2014 8:49 am

In this June 4, 2014 photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second left in front, interacts with bureaucrats before their meeting in New Delhi, India. The top civil servants in in India's labyrinthine bureaucracy these days, are spending their evenings paging through dictionaries, frantically looking up words. The dictionary searches stem from an order by new Prime Minister Modi: All official work must now be done in Hindi, the language spoken by about 45 percent of India's 1.2 billion people. In a country with as many as 22 official languages many question Hindi's dominance. (AP Photo)

Indian bureaucrats scramble for Hindi dictionaries

Nirmala George · June 19, 2014 7:30 am