Tag: World

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 1987 file photo, Venezuela's President Jaime Lusinchi, left, is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez De Cuellar at the United Nations. The former president, who struggled to tame an economic crisis sparked by plunging oil prices in the late 1980s and then saw his reputation tarnished by allegations of corruption after leaving office, died Wednesday, May 21, 2014. He was 89. (AP Photo/Mario Suriani, File)

Ex-Venezuela President Lusinchi dies at 89

Jorge Rueda · May 22, 2014 10:26 pm

Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron and his wife Samantha pause to pose for photographers and television cameras as they leave after casting their votes at a polling station in central London, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Voters in 28 countries on Thursday begin choosing the next European Parliament and helping determine the EU's future leaders and course. Around 400 million Europeans are eligible to take part in what is termed the world's largest cross-border exercise in representative democracy. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Exit poll shows shock loss for Dutch euroskeptic

Mike Corder · May 22, 2014 10:24 pm

16 Puerto Rico policemen face corruption charges

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 10:09 pm

Singer Kylie Minogue arrives at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the 67th international film festival, in Cap d'Antibes, southern France, Thursday, May 22, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

CANNES WATCH: Minogue’s look; Wurst on fame

The Associated Press · May 22, 2014 10:04 pm

UN says ready to get aid into Syria despite gov’t

Cara Anna · May 22, 2014 9:52 pm

People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Scores of protesters chanting "Bring Back Our Girls" marched in the Nigerian capital Thursday as many schools across the country closed to protest the abductions of more than 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government's failure to rescue them and the killings of scores of teachers by Islamic extremists in recent years. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerians protest government failure to free girls

Andrew Drake · May 22, 2014 9:44 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2013 file photo, Haitian Maria Julia Deguis looks out from her home in Los Jovillos village, in the Monte Plata province of the Dominican Republic. A law passed by Dominican Republic legislators Wednesday, May 21, 2014, creates a path to citizenship for the children and grandchildren of tens of thousands of migrants who came from neighboring Haiti to work. It follows an international outcry over a court ruling that left many essentially stateless. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz, File)

New Dominican law aids some ‘stateless’ migrants

Ezequiel Abiu, lopezdanica-coto · May 22, 2014 9:30 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2014 file photo, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr perform at The Night that Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles, in Los Angeles. McCartney has canceled his concert in South Korea next week due to the virus-caused illness that forced him to call off his entire Japan tour, organizers said Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The former Beatle, who turns 72 next month, had planned to hold concerts in Japan and South Korea as part of his world tour. (Photo by Zach Cordner/Invision/AP, File)

Paul McCartney treated in hospital for virus

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 8:57 pm

Australian correspondent of Al-Jazeera Peter Greste appears in a defendant cage along with other defendants during a trial on terrorism charges in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 22, 2014. A defense lawyer for one of three Al-Jazeera journalists on trial in Egypt on terrorism charges has told the judge that the proceedings against his client "make no sense." (AP Photo/Ahmed Gamil)

Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s lawyer complains to judge

Laura Dean · May 22, 2014 8:33 pm

Belfast police to sue for all Boston College tapes

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 22, 2014 8:20 pm

An Ukrainian soldier walks past charred APCs at a gunfight site near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles stood at the site of the combat. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Deadliest day for Ukraine troops: 16 slain in raid

IVAN SEKRETAREVPETER LEONARD · May 22, 2014 8:09 pm

Iran opposition activist free after serving term

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 7:43 pm