Tag: World

In this Thursday, May 15, 2014 photo, China Coast Guard vessels sail in the waters claimed by China and Vietnam in the South China Sea. China's deployment of an oil rig off Vietnam's coast has prompted a tense sea standoff and touched off deadly anti-China rioting. The conflict pits two neighbors with very similar governments but whose people bear ill feelings rooted in a rivalry that dates back centuries and has occasionally burst out into armed conflict. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

On high seas, Vietnam and China play tense game

Hau Dinh · May 17, 2014 5:23 am

Lao military plane with defense chief crashes

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 5:17 am

Greek coalition faces major test in midterm vote

Nicholas Paphitis · May 17, 2014 4:53 am

A Bangladeshi man mourns for his missing brother, as rescuers continue to search the site of a ferry that sank, on the banks of the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, in Bangladesh, Friday, May 16, 2014. Rescuers have recovered at least 26 bodies after a ferry capsized during a storm in a river in central Bangladesh, officials said Friday. Police estimated at least 100 people were still missing, but there was no clear picture about exactly how many people were on board because the ferry operators did not maintain a passenger list, said a local administrator, Saiful Hasan. (AP Photo/Suvra Kanti Das)

40 dead as Bangladesh ferry search called off

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 4:12 am

Fight for ‘Alcatraz of Caribbean’ in Puerto Rico

Danica Coto · May 17, 2014 4:03 am

In this photo provided by Brody Lisle, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford poses for a photo with him in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada on Friday, May 16, 2014. Ford is still in rehab, his lawyer said Friday as photos of the mayor posing with residents in Ontario's cottage country were posted online. "I was so excited, I'm still shaking after seeing him," Lisle said. "He seemed a lot thinner and he was really happy and cheerful." (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Brody Lisle)

Toronto mayor Rob Ford spotted in Ontario town

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 2:40 am

Head of Dreamworks Jeffrey Katzenberg, right, and actress Cate Blanchett leave after the screening of How To Train Your Dragon 2 at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

CANNES WATCH: Blanchett jokes; Weinstein sells

The Associated Press · May 17, 2014 2:15 am

Anti-government protesters chant slogans on a monument for the town's miners, during a march in Soma, Turkey where the mine accident took place, Friday, May 16, 2014. Hundreds of protesters took part in the march against the government and there were clashes with the police forces. An explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Istanbul, killed hundreds of workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkish firm, govt deny negligence in mine fire

DESMOND BUTLERSUZAN FRASER · May 17, 2014 1:59 am

Colombia rebels, govt reach agreement on drugs

ANNE-MARIE GARCIALIBARDO CARDONA · May 17, 2014 1:47 am

Indians take photographs of a map of India holding a portrait of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi, made with colored powder and surrounded by rose petals, at the party office in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Friday, May 16, 2014. Modi will be India's next prime minister, winning the most decisive election victory the country has seen in more than a quarter century and sweeping the long-dominant Congress party from power, partial results showed Friday. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Landslide win for Indian opposition party

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 1:47 am

US missionary stabbed to death in Haiti

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 1:06 am

In this photo released by the National Civil Police, masked soldiers escort Jairo Estuardo Orellana in handcuffs after his arrest as they bring him to an air force base in Guatemala City, late Thursday, May 15, 2014. Guatemala's Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla announced the government detained Orellana, an alleged member of Mexico's Zetas Cartel drug gang who is described by the U.S. government as one of the region's most important drug traffickers, during an operation in which two of Orellana's bodyguards we killed, as well as a police officer, in town of Gualan in the Zacapa department. (AP Photo/National Civil Police)

Guatemala nabs alleged Zetas leader wanted in US

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 12:44 am