Tag: World

In this May 28, 2014 photo, players from the Presidente Prudente soccer club's under 16 category train in Presidente Prudente, Brazil. Professional soccer in the World Cup host nation is struggling, with lower-division teams unable to play enough games, players forced to take multiple jobs and even top-tier teams competing in mostly empty stadiums. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Reality of ‘beautiful game’ turns ugly in Brazil

Tales Azzoni · June 4, 2014 5:55 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

National Security

Germany investigates alleged NSA Merkel phone tap

David Rising · June 4, 2014 5:37 pm

Historian Capuchino,Tarsicio de Azcona, center, receives the Prince's Viana Award, from Spain's Prince Felipe at the Monastery of Leyre, 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. King Juan Carlos, who led Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy but faced damaging scandals amid the nation's financial meltdown, announced Monday he will abdicate in favor of his more popular son, Prince Felipe, so that fresh royal blood can rally the nation. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spain’s next king speaks of unity in first speech

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 5:25 pm

Queen Elizabeth II, centre, and The Duke of Edinburgh leaves Buckingham Palace, riding inside the new Diamond Jubilee State Coach, to deliver her speech at the Palace of Westminster, in London, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The Coach was built in Australia by a team of craftsmen led by Jim Frecklington who conceived the initial idea. The State Opening of Parliament is an annual pageant of pomp and politics centered on the Queen's Speech, a legislative program written by the government but read out by the monarch before a crowd of lawmakers. (AP Photo/Jonathan Brady, Pool)

Queen Elizabeth II unveils British gov’t plan

Jill Lawless · June 4, 2014 5:12 pm

Ukraine’s Poroshenko rejects martial law in east

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 5:09 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Tamam Salam, at the government palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday June 4, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is on an unannounced trip to Lebanon to bring Obama administration support to the country's government as it confronts severe difficulties, with an influx of refugees from next door in Syria and a political stalemate at home. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Kerry: US troubled by lack of Lebanese president

Matthew Lee · June 4, 2014 4:36 pm

Danes issue arrest warrant for target shooters

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 4:15 pm

Kerry: We’ll work with Palestinian unity Cabinet

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 4:10 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, shakes hands with Afghanistan's Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, right, ahead of their North Atlantic Council (NAT) meeting, in Brussels, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Official: 1,800 US troops for Afghan counterterror

Lolita Baldor · June 4, 2014 3:57 pm

FILE - In this hand out file photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. The Paris prosecutor's office said a man has been arrested Friday May 30, 2014 in the investigation of the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police, File)

Jewish Museum attack suspect wants French trial

Elaine Ganley · June 4, 2014 3:57 pm

Indian girl, 13, becomes youngest to climb Everest

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 3:28 pm

FILE - This is a Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 file photo of Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, arrives at the Central Criminal Court in London to face charges related to phone hacking. A judge has told jurors that the fate of Britain's phone-hacking defendants will soon be in their hands, and they must banish sentiment and emotion when considering their verdicts. Judge John Saunders began summing up Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at the trial of former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, and five others, over wrongdoing at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. All the defendants deny the charges. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

Judge starts summing-up at UK phone hacking trial

Jill Lawless · June 4, 2014 3:27 pm