Tag: World

Philippines charges Chinese caught in disputed sea

Jim Gomez · May 12, 2014 12:28 pm

Macedonia opposition skips president’s swearing-in

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 12:10 pm

Explosion in Indian embroidery factory injures 33

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 11:58 am

EU adds 13 more people, 2 enterprises to its Ukraine list for visa bans and asset freezes

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 11:43 am

Police officers stand guard, during a rally calling on the Government to rescue the school girls kidnapped from the Chibok Government secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday May 11, 2014. The failure to rescue the kidnapped girl students who remain captive after some four weeks has attracted mounting national and international outrage, and one of the teenagers who escaped from the Islamic extremists who abducted the hundreds of schoolgirls, science student Sarah Lawan said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press the kidnapping was "too terrifying for words". (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria agrees to security summit on Boko Haram

Sylvie Corbet · May 12, 2014 11:14 am

France to redraw nation’s map to save money

Sylvie Corbet · May 12, 2014 11:11 am

In this collage of photos released by the Imperial War Museum, faces of World War One British soldiers, nurses and home front workers. Britain's Imperial War Museum is launching an ambitious online database on Monday, May 12, 2014 to remember the lives of the millions of men and women who served in World War One. The museum hopes that the history project, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of WWI, could form a permanent digital memorial to the scores of soldiers, nurses and others from Britain and the Commonwealth who contributed to the war by piecing together their life stories. (AP Photo/IWM)

UK museum launches digital WWI database

Sylvia Hui · May 12, 2014 10:55 am

An African immigrant, one of the 32 from Syria and Somalia who survived from one of the deadliest migrant boat accidents which occurred on May 5 in Greek waters, arrives at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Monday, May 12, 2014. At least 22 people, including families trapped in a flooded cabin, drowned when a yacht and a dinghy crammed with migrants trying to slip into Greece capsized last week in the eastern Aegean Sea, next to the island of Samos, authorities said. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

40 migrants rescued in Greece

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 10:25 am

People wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Jaunpur, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Monday, May 12, 2014. Millions of Indian voters wrapped up a mammoth national election Monday, braving the searing sun on the final day of polling with the Hindu nationalist opposition candidate seen as the front-runner for prime minister. With 814 million eligible voters, India has been voting in phases over six weeks, with results expected on Friday. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Indians vote in final phase of national elections

Ashok Sharma · May 12, 2014 10:23 am

In this photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry, Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmad, center left, inspects the troops at areas seized from al-Qaida in the southeastern province of Shabwa, Yemen, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Yemeni armed forces on Thursday swept al-Qaida fighters out of a district in the country's south, one of the main goals of the major offensive waged by the military the past two weeks, the Defense Ministry said, amid fears of retaliatory attacks which officials say prompted the closure of the US embassy in the capital as a precaution. (AP Photo/Yemen's Defense Ministry)

National Security

Yemen: US drone strike kills 6 al-Qaida militants

Ahmed AlHaj · May 12, 2014 9:39 am

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite speaks to the media after winning the first round of the country's presidential election, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, May 12, 2014. Grybauskaite took a big step Sunday toward winning re-election, dominating the first round of voting in the Baltic country's sixth presidential ballot since it regained independence in 1991. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuanian presidential election into 2nd round

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 7:51 am

Ongoing fighting in Iraq’s Anbar hits businesses

SINAN SALAHEDDINSAMEER N. YACOUB · May 12, 2014 7:05 am