Tag: World

Thai soldiers link arms as they monitor the protest against the coup outside a shopping complex in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, May 24, 2014. Thailand's coup leaders said Saturday they will keep former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Cabinet members and anti-government protest leaders detained for up to a week to give them "time to think" and to keep the country calm. They also summoned outspoken academics to report to the junta. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

News Guide: Military carries out coup in Thailand

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 5:17 pm

2 arrested in Spain after attack on minister’s car

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 4:44 pm

Soccer helps some young Hondurans to avoid gangs

alberto-arce · May 24, 2014 4:44 pm

Double-Act: Dardenne siblings talk brotherhood

Thomas Adamson · May 24, 2014 4:40 pm

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman waves as he arrives to give his farewell speech at the end of his six-year term, at the presidential palace, in the Beirut suburb of Baabda, Lebanon, Saturday May 24, 2014. Lebanese politicians haven't been able to agree on a successor to Suleiman, whose term ends Sunday. Sulaiman has called for the country's squabbling politicians to choose a successor to his post as he steps down. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese president urges leaders to name successor

Diaa Hadid · May 24, 2014 4:20 pm

Pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Ukrainians vote Sunday in an early presidential election that could be a crucial step toward resolving the country's crisis, but separatists in the east are threatening to block the vote. The election, which comes six months after the outbreak of protests that led to the president's ouster and a deepening chasm between pro-Europe and pro-Russia Ukrainians, aims to unify the fiercely divided country or at least discourage further polarization.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Election under threat in eastern Ukraine

Nataliya Vasilyeva · May 24, 2014 4:11 pm

266 reported hurt as quake rattles Greece, Turkey

nellassuzan-fraser, costas-kantourisdemetris · May 24, 2014 4:09 pm

Soccer helps some young Hondurans escape the gangs

alberto-arce · May 24, 2014 3:29 pm

Chinese woman scales Everest from Nepal side

BiNaj Gurubacharya · May 24, 2014 2:01 pm

5 things to watch for during pope’s Mideast trip

NICOLE WINFIELDJOSEF FEDERMAN · May 24, 2014 1:58 pm

Motorists ride past a banner of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hanging on an electricity pole in Islamabad, Pakistan. Sharif will attend the inauguration of India's Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, a first for the nuclear-armed rivals, officials said Saturday. Pakistan and India have a history of uneasy relations and they have fought three wars over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947. Saturday's decision by Sharif could signal a further easing of tensions. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan PM to attend Indian inauguration, a first

Munir Ahmed · May 24, 2014 1:35 pm

In this photo provided by the United States Navy, the overturned hull of the Cheeki Rafiki is shown as discovered by a U.S. Navy warship approximately 1,000 miles east of Cape Cod, Mass., Friday, May 23, 2014. The warship located the overturned hull of the British yacht that went missing last week in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, officials said the search for any survivors will conclude on Friday evening. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

Family of UK yacht ‘saddened’ as search called off

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 1:27 pm