Tag: World

President Juan Manuel Santos, right, who is seeking a second four-year term as candidate for the Social Party of National Unity in the upcoming May 25 presidential election, shakes hands with Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, candidate for the Democratic Center, prior to a televised presidential debate in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Colombia will hold presidential elections on May 25. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia’s presidential race engulfed by scandal

Joshua Goodman · May 23, 2014 3:04 am

Doctors design mini dialysis machine for babies

Maria Cheng · May 23, 2014 2:59 am

US says UN approves sanctions on Boko Haram

Edith Lederer · May 23, 2014 2:52 am

FILE - In this May 17, 2007, file photo, An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Ecuador's government has issued an environmental permit, May 22, 2014, for oil drilling in the pristine Amazon reserve that President Rafael Correa initially offered to exempt from exploration if rich countries would pay his government. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

Energy and Environment

Ecuador issues permit to drill in Amazon reserve

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 1:22 am

Brazil border Cup operation nets 40 tons of drugs

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 12:48 am

FILE - This file photo composite of images taken from flyers made by relatives show ten of 12 young people that were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after hours bar in Mexico City on May 26, 2013. From left to right, top row; Josue Piedra Moreno, Aaron Piedra Moreno, Rafael Rojas, Alan Omar Athiencia Barragon, Jennifer Robles Gonzalez. From left to right, bottom row; Jerzy Ortiz Ponce, Said Sanchez Garcia, Guadalupe Morales Vargas, Eulogio Foseca Arreola, Gabriela Tellez Zamudio. Prosecutors said this Thursday May 22, 2014, that they have arrested the suspected mastermind behind the kidnapping of the 12 young people from a Mexico City bar who were later found slain and buried in a clandestine grave. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico City detains man in kidnap, killing of 12

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 12:17 am

APNewsBreak: US Nazi suspect case moves ahead

David Rising · May 23, 2014 12:14 am

Venezuela blames World Cup for airline cutbacks

Jorge Rueda · May 22, 2014 11:54 pm

Argentine inspectors locked in refrigerated truck

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 11:49 pm

Egypt officials: Militant leader killed in Sinai

Ashraf Sweilam · May 22, 2014 11:37 pm

FILE - In this Friday, March 18, 2011 file photo, then Libyan senior Rebel commander Khalifa Hifter leaves a press conference in the court house in the center of Benghazi, eastern Libya. Libya's army chief ordered the deployment of Islamist-led militias to the capital Tripoli on Monday, May 19, 2014 in response to the storming of parliament by forces loyal to a renegade general, paving the way for a possible showdown between rival militia fighters. The revolt by Gen. Khalifa Hifter threatens to detonate the long volatile divisions among the multiple militias that dominate Libya amid the weakness of the central government and military. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

AP INTERVIEW: Rogue Libya general vows to fight on

Maggie Michael · May 22, 2014 10:45 pm

Kiwi DNA link spurs rethink of flightless birds

Nick Perry · May 22, 2014 10:26 pm