Tag: World

File - In this Dec. 6, 2013, file photo, Mexico's head coach Miguel Herrera listens to a question during a press conference at the national team's training center in Mexico City, after the final draw in Brazil for the 2014 World Cup. Herrera, who said last May 2014, that he expects his players to refrain from any horizontal samba during their stay in Brazil, where the monthlong tournament opens next week. (AP Photo/Christian Palma, File)

A World Cup quandary: sex or abstinence

Joshua Goodman · June 4, 2014 4:02 am

Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, presidential candidate for the Democratic Center speaks during an interview with Associated Press in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Zualuaga will face President Juan Manuel Santos, who is seeking a second four-year term as candidate of the Social Party of National Unity, in a presidential runoff on June 15. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

AP Interview: Colombian challenger tough on rebels

LIBARDO CARDONAJOSHUA GOODMAN · June 4, 2014 4:00 am

South Korean President Park Geun-hye casts her ballot 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

South Koreans vote following ferry sinking

HyungJin Kim · June 4, 2014 3:38 am

More than 60 women join Australian combat roles

Rod McGuirk · June 4, 2014 3:13 am

Tropical Storm Boris heads toward Mexico’s coast

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 2:56 am

22 killed in mine accident in southwestern China

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 2:22 am

A protester flashes three fingers, representing liberty, brotherhood and equality, during an anti-coup demonstration at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, June 1, 2014. Hundreds of demonstrators shouting "Freedom!" and "Democracy!" gathered Sunday near a major shopping mall in downtown Bangkok to denounce the country's May 22 coup despite a lockdown by soldiers of some of the city's major intersections. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

‘Hunger Games’ salute used as protest in Thailand

JOCELYN GECKERTHANYARAT DOKSONE · June 4, 2014 2:08 am

Child migrants driven to US by violence, poverty

CHRISTOPHER SHERMANALICIA A. CALDWELL · June 3, 2014 11:22 pm

Supporters of Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi react to the official announcement declaring him the next president of Egypt with 96.9 percent of the vote, and a turnout of 47.45 percent, in Alexandria, Egypt, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. El-Sissi's victory was never in doubt, but the career infantry officer had pushed for a massive turnout as well to bestow legitimacy on his ouster last July of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and the ensuing crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist supporters. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)

President-elect to Egyptians: ‘Time to work’

Maggie Michael · June 3, 2014 10:19 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani makes an address during a ceremony marking the 25th death anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, at his shrine just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Iran's moderate president said Tuesday that his administration will defend the Islamic Republic's nuclear rights and work to end international sanctions that have devastated its economy. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

National Security

Iran’s president vows to defend nuclear rights

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 10:09 pm

Irish church under fire over children’s mass grave

Shawn Pogatchnik · June 3, 2014 9:37 pm

Russia: Syrian vote isn’t obstacle to peace talks

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 9:20 pm