Tag: World

12 sentenced to death for killing Egypt officer

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 4:37 pm

Experts: Cut trees to rescue Nero’s fabled palace

Kavitha Surana · June 18, 2014 4:26 pm

Sex workers of Dolly red-light district sit on the road in a protest against the closing of the prostitution complex in Surabaya, East java, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The government has shut down a red-light district in Indonesia's second largest town amid protests by pimps and sex workers as well as dependents. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Indonesia shuts down massive prostitution complex

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 4:14 pm

Visitors of the Wertheim Park point to a banner opposing plans for a second Holocaust monument in the park in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Plans for a second Holocaust monument in the park in Amsterdam designed by architect Daniel Libeskind have been put on hold after angry neighbors told the city it is too large for the park where it was to have been placed. Edwin Oppedijk, a spokesman for the city's central district, said Wednesday that after hearing the complaints, the city will reconsider whether to place the monument in the Wertheim Park after all or possibly an alternate location. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Plan for Dutch Holocaust monument on hold

Toby Sterling · June 18, 2014 4:11 pm

14 dead in bombing of WCup view site in Nigeria

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 4:01 pm

Nigerian censors want cuts to Half of a Yellow Sun

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 3:59 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2006 file photo released by Centre of Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, fish swim amongst bleached coral near the Keppel Islands in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. A decision Wednesday June 18, 2014, to add the Great Barrier Reef to a list of World Heritage in Danger has been held off a year, after the U.N.'s cultural agency said Australia has made progress in protecting it. (AP Photo/Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, File)

Energy and Environment

Barrier Reef won’t be called endangered for now

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 3:26 pm

A few handy words for speaking “futebol”

The Associated Press · June 18, 2014 2:52 pm

South African bill targets foreign security firms

Christopher Torchia · June 18, 2014 2:41 pm

Stray bullet hits Brazilian boy in World Cup city

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 2:40 pm

1980 coup leaders given life sentences in Turkey

Suzan Fraser · June 18, 2014 2:28 pm

Anti-foreigner attacks in Germany rise 20 percent

Frank Jordans · June 18, 2014 2:26 pm