Tag: World

France holds South Korean tycoon’s daughter

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 4:15 pm

Spanish conductor Rafael Fruehbeck dead at 80

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 3:52 pm

In Somalia, a wives’ tale delays measles treatment

Abdi Guled · June 11, 2014 3:46 pm

Former opposition lawmaker Musallam al-Barrack, right, gives a speech at al-Irada Square, Kuwait City on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Kuwaitis protested against government corruption, demanding transparency in government and an economic revival in the Gulf Arab country that was once one of the region's most attractive for foreign investment. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

Kuwait premier denies corruption allegations

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 3:43 pm

Chrissie Hynde poses for portraits at a north London recording studio, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, following the release of her first solo venture, entitled Stockholm, six years after the last Pretenders album. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Chrissie Hynde a Pretender no more on ‘Stockholm’

Jill Lawless · June 11, 2014 3:34 pm

Turkish court vacates conviction over 1998 blast

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 3:24 pm

Syrian woman survives 700 days of blockade

Diaa Hadid · June 11, 2014 3:07 pm

Former Bayonne's hospital doctor Nicolas Bonnemaison arrives at the courthouse of Pau, southwestern France, for the first day of his trial, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Bonnemaison is accused having poisoned 7 terminally ill patients in 2010 and 2011. The trial comes amid debate in France over whether to legalize euthanasia or other means of ending medical care for terminally ill patients. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Frenchman on trial over ailing patients’ deaths

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 2:03 pm

Britain's Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Hugh Robertson arrives at an EU-Arab league Foreign Ministers summit, in Athens, on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

EU, Arab League join forces against jihadi threat

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 1:40 pm

Chinese relatives of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 cry outside the airlines' office after officials from the airline refused to meet with them in Beijing, China Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Despite a massive air and sea search, no trace of Flight 370 has been found, three months after it vanished after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Families of Flight 370 passengers seek information

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 1:20 pm

A Thai shopper watches a soccer match on a flat-panel television at s shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Thailandâs military junta, which promised to âreturn happiness to the peopleâ after last monthâs coup, has asked regulatory officials to find a way to allow the countryâs many soccer fans to watch all of the 2014 World Cup for free. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai junta to ‘return happiness’ through World Cup

Thanyarat Doksone · June 11, 2014 1:18 pm

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari arrives at an EU-Arab league Foreign Ministers summit in Athens, on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fled the second-largest city. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Iraq foreign minister: Iraq faces ‘mortal threat’

Elena Becatoros · June 11, 2014 1:03 pm