Tag: World

FILE - Int his Thursday, May 29, 2014 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the Upper house diplomacy and Defense committee session in Tokyo. Japan and North Korea appear to be on the verge of a breakthrough on a bizarre legacy of the Cold War, a secret, government-ordered program that led to the abduction of more than a dozen and possibly several hundred Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 80s by North Korean infiltrators and spies. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Hope, risk surround Japan-N. Korea abduction deal

Eric Talmadge · June 5, 2014 9:19 am

U.S. President Barack Obama, center, waves as he is welcomed by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy during arrivals for a G7 summit at the EU Council building in Brussels on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The leaders of the Group of Seven will participate in a two day meeting in which they will discuss among other issues, the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

G-7 leaders center on economic growth, jobs

Washington Examiner · June 5, 2014 7:53 am

In this May 22, 2014 photo, Aung Myint types a document from his sidewalk stand in Yangon, Myanmar. The 67-year-old insists typewriters still have some advantages over computers. "You don't need to waste time with printing," he says, fingers flying high over the keys and then hammering down as he speaks. "And if you make a mistake, you can just erase it and type over it. It's easier." (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Typewriters, telegrams cling to life in Myanmar

Esther Htusan · June 5, 2014 7:12 am

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Damien Theriault and Mayor George LeBlanc pause to collect themselves before addressing the media during a late night news conference at City Hall in Moncton, New Brunswick on Wednesday June 4, 2014. Three police officers were shot dead and two others injured in a rare case of gun violence in the east coast Canadian province of New Brunswick, officials said. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Marc Grandmaison)

3 officers killed, 2 injured in Canada shooting

Washington Examiner · June 5, 2014 6:35 am

In this May 20, 2014 photo, Howard Bailey pauses as he speaks to a journalist as he works on his neighbor's farm in Bohemia, Jamaica. The 42-year-old father of two was deported in May 2012 from the U.S. to his Caribbean homeland because he was convicted of a marijuana-related felony drug charge in 1997, despite the four years he served in the Navy, including a few months on a supply ship during the first Gulf War. (AP Photo/David McFadden)

A US veteran, deported and struggling in Jamaica

David McFadden · June 5, 2014 4:16 am

World Cup tourists, get ready for price shock

LUIS ANDRES HENAO · June 5, 2014 4:06 am

A member of the Homeless Workers Movement take part in a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup preparations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

Protesters march in Sao Paulo ahead of World Cup

Washington Examiner · June 5, 2014 3:32 am

South Korean President Park Geun-hye comes out after casting her vote for local elections at a polling station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. South Koreans began voting Wednesday in local elections seen as a test of how the public feels about President Park Geun-hye's handling of April's deadly ferry sinking. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT

Ruling party, rival split S. Korean vote

HyungJin Kim · June 5, 2014 3:28 am

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant achievement for the insurgents. Bergdahl was freed on Saturday after five years in captivity, and exchanged for the five Guantanamo detainees who were flown to Qatar, a tiny Gulf Arab country which has served as a mediator in the negotiations for the swap. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

National Security

Bergdahl’s hometown cancels celebration amid furor

BRIAN SKOLOFFRAHIM FAIEZ · June 5, 2014 3:03 am

Police in New Brunswick, Canada says 3 officers are dead and 2 are injured from shooting

Washington Examiner · June 5, 2014 2:07 am

In this photo taken Monday Dec. 10, 2012, earth moving vehicles are seen in Baidaoping area in Lanzhou in northwest China's Gansu province. China's campaign to shave off mountaintops and fill in valleys to make way for cities may come at too high a price in the pollution, erosion and flooding unleashed by the unprecedented redistribution of earth, Chinese researchers warned Thursday June 5, 2014. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Warning on bulldozing hills for Chinese cities

Louise Watt · June 5, 2014 1:47 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama attend the first working session at a G7 summit in Brussels on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The leaders of the Group of Seven are participating in a two day meeting in which they will discuss among other issues, the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Russia’s Putin dominates G-7 summit in absentia

JUERGEN BAETZJOHN-THOR DAHLBURG · June 5, 2014 1:10 am