Tag: World

UN chief announces resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi as joint UN-Arab League envoy for Syria

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 4:14 pm

This photo provided by former Tehran American School student Mark Turnage shows part of a page about student organizations in the school's 1973 yearbook with a photo of William James Vahey, right, who taught at the school from 1972-1973. Vahey was one of the most beloved teachers in the world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats, well-off Americans and local elites. That was Vahey's public persona until a maid stole a memory drive from him in November. On it was evidence that Vahey molested scores of adolescent boys, possibly more. (AP Photo) NO SALES

Pedophile teacher abused scores as clues missed

MICHAEL WEISSENSTEINTAMI ABDOLLAH · May 13, 2014 4:07 pm

FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo, a Saudi man talks on his phone as he wears a mask outside King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi health officials say another five people have died after contracting a potentially fatal Middle Eastern respiratory virus that has sickened hundreds. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Saudi Arabia reports 5 new deaths from MERS

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 3:41 pm

Raw: Baghdad Blasts Kill Dozens

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 3:38 pm

Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Sentenced to 6 Years

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 3:27 pm

Intl war crimes prosecutor reopens Iraq inquiry

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 3:24 pm

South Sudan: Bodies in wells, houses burned

Josphat Kasire · May 13, 2014 3:19 pm

Ukraine’s defense ministry says 6 servicemen ambushed, killed in the restive east.

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 3:01 pm

Moldova to sign EU accord on June 27

Corneliu Rusnac · May 13, 2014 2:57 pm

Masked anti-government demonstrators walk amid teargas fired by Bolivarian National Police during a protest to demand the release of arrested student protesters in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 12, 2014. Venezuelan courts have ordered 11 student protesters to stand trial, but they have freed more than 150 others arrested with them during raids on encampments set up by protesters opposed to President Nicolas Maduro's government. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela opposition threatens to end crisis talks

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 2:44 pm

Group says Syria used chemical weapons in April

Diaa Hadid · May 13, 2014 2:35 pm

FILE - In this March 24, 2014 file photo, co-pilot, flying officer Marc Smith turns his Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft at low level in bad weather whilst searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean. The Australian government plans to spend 90 million Australian dollars ($84 million) on the search for the missing Malaysian plane. Australia is leading the search for the missing plane, which is thought to have disappeared in the Indian Ocean with 239 people aboard on March 8. Budget documents released Tuesday, May 13, 2014 showed that the government has budgeted AU$90 million for the search in the current fiscal year through June and next fiscal year. (AP Photo/Richard Wainwright, Pool, File)

Australia to spend $84M on Malaysian jet search

Rod McGuirk · May 13, 2014 2:28 pm