Tag: World

3 UN peacekeepers wounded by land mine in Mali

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 9:57 am

FILE - In this June 29, 2007 file picture Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works at the art museum in Chur, Switzerland. H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Chateau St. Germain told The Associated Press Tuesday May 13, 2014 that Giger had died in a hospital the day before. Giger received a 1979 Academy Award for special effects in 'Alen'. Giger's works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for "biomechanical" tattoos. (AP Photo/Keystone,Arno Balzarini,File)

‘Alien’ artist H.R. Giger dies at 74

Frank Jordans · May 13, 2014 9:56 am

In this photo taken April 11, 2004, Chinese dissident Xiang Nanfu shares an Easter meal with other Chinese dissidents at a brick home in Houbaihujian village, on the outskirts of Beijing. Xiang who supplied information to to a dissident-run U.S.-based news website has been detained on charges he made up stories that disparaged the Chinese government, police announced Tuesday, May 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China detains man who wrote for foreign website

Didi Tang · May 13, 2014 9:14 am

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 more deaths from MERS

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 9:13 am

French police arrest 6 suspected Syria jihadists

Jamey Keaten · May 13, 2014 8:28 am

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency taken on Monday, May 12, 2014 police personnel and others stand near a burned bus as it is prepared to be towed following an explosion in Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Authorities in southwest China said Tuesday, May 13, 2014, that police suspect that a man who died in the explosion on the bus was responsible for igniting the fire that also injured dozens. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing) NO SALES

China authorities: deadly bus fire caused by arson

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 5:21 am

In this Thursday, May 8, 2014 photo, a security guard stands at the entrance of Jakarta International School (JIS) compound in Jakarta, Indonesia. U.S. citizen William Vahey taught here from 1992-2002. Vahey began his international teaching career with a series of stays around the Middle East and Europe, and by 1992, Vahey and his wife moved to Indonesia. He 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 the public persona of William Vahey 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/Achmad Ibrahim)

Glance at pedophile teacher’s career

The Associated Press · May 13, 2014 4:01 am

LRA’s Kony hunted in Central African Republic

Edith Lederer · May 13, 2014 3:22 am

Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo y Marfil, second right, talks with Finland's Foreign Minister Erkki Sakari Tuomioja, left, French Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir, second left, and Romania's Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean during an EU foreign ministers meeting at the European Council building in Brussels Monday, May 12, 2014. EU foreign ministers discuss the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

National Security

EU adds 13 people, 2 firms to Ukraine list

Raf Casert · May 13, 2014 3:08 am

UN experts: Iran’s banned nuke buying has showed

Edith Lederer · May 13, 2014 12:39 am

Official: Slain Zetas founder was robbing banks

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 11:56 pm

In this photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday May 12, 2014 shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaking to the camera. The new video purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300 were kidnapped from a northeastern school the night of April 14 exactly four weeks ago. (AP Photo)

Boko Haram demands release of fighters for girls

MICHELLE FAULSUNDAY ALAMBA · May 12, 2014 11:07 pm