Tag: World

El Salvador evacuates 1,000 people near volcano

Washington Examiner · May 20, 2014 1:29 am

A Bosnian man searches for people and animals after flooding in the village of Vojskova near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac, flooded by the river Sava, 200 km's north of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Monday, May 19, 2014. Tens of thousands evacuated in Serbia and Bosnia during worst floods in a century.(AP Photo/ Amel Emric)

Energy and Environment

Balkans hit with record flooding

The Associated Press · May 20, 2014 1:03 am

Violence in north Mexico heats up; so do protests

Mark Stevenson · May 20, 2014 12:36 am

Actress Jessica Chastain poses for photographers as she arrives for the screening of Foxcatcher at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

CANNES WATCH: R-Patz rates romps; Chastain billows

The Associated Press · May 19, 2014 10:13 pm

In a photo provided by Boston College and made in October, 2013, History Professor Emeritus, Radu Florescu, speaks during a book-signing on campus at Boston College for his new book, "Dracula's Bloodline: A Florescu Family Saga." Romanian-born historian and philanthropist Radu Florescu, who wrote a book linking Count Dracula to the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler, has died at 88. (AP Photo/Lee Pellegrini, Boston College)

Romanian historian who debunked Dracula myth dies

Alison Mutler · May 19, 2014 9:55 pm

Actress Jessica Chastain poses for photographers as she arrives for the screening of Foxcatcher at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

CANNES WATCH: Chastain flutters in Saab couture

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 9:55 pm

In this June 2013 photo provided by National Geographic, divers make their way toward Hoyo Negro, an underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula where the remains of "Naia," a teenage girl who lived 12,000 to 13,000 years earlier, were found. Her skeleton and her DNA are helping scientists study the origins of the first Americans. An analysis of her remains was released Thursday, May 15, 2014 by the journal Science. Her DNA links her to an ancient land bridge connecting Asia and North America, and suggests she shares ancestors with the modern native peoples of the Americas.(AP Photo/National Geographic, Paul Nicklen)

Mexico plans to extract 13,000-year-old skeleton

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 9:38 pm

58 countries urge UN to refer Syria to ICC

Edith Lederer · May 19, 2014 9:37 pm

Chile president sends education reform to Congress

LUIS ANDRES HENAO · May 19, 2014 9:33 pm

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Administrator Charles Bolden speaks during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

NASA: Russia alone can’t end space station work

Frank Jordans · May 19, 2014 9:05 pm

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings which were destroyed from a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, May. 17, 2014. The United Nations chief has condemned a cut in water supplies in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo that he said has deprived at least 2.5 million people of access to potable water. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Activists: Death toll in Syria’s war tops 160,000

Barbara Surk · May 19, 2014 8:59 pm

A flooded area is seen in Obrenovac, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, May 19, 2014. Belgrade braced for a river surge Monday that threatened to inundate Serbia's main power plant and cause major power cuts in the crisis-stricken country as the Balkans struggle with the consequences of the worst flooding in southeastern Europe in more than a century. At least 35 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia in the five days of flooding caused by unprecedented torrential rain, laying waste to entire towns and villages and sending tens of thousands of people out of their homes, authorities said. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Floods threaten power plant, land mines in Balkans

JOVANA GECDUSAN STOJANOVIC · May 19, 2014 8:50 pm