Tag: World

Colombia: Hacker tried to sabotage peace talks

Cesar Garcia · May 7, 2014 2:37 am

New controversy in Australia-Indonesia relations

Rod McGuirk · May 7, 2014 1:50 am

FILE- In this undated file photo provided byt he USDA, an aedes aegypti mosquito is shown on human skin. Health officials in the Dominican Republic said this Tuesday April 29, 1014, that the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has spread widely since making its first appearance in the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control the chikungunya virus is most often spread to people by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue virus. They bite mostly during the daytime. (AP Photo/USDA, File)

Haiti confirms 14 cases of mosquito-borne virus

Washington Examiner · May 7, 2014 12:34 am

In this May 1, 2014 frame grab taken from APTN video provided by Giga Vision, Santa Cruz Mayor Percy Fernandez grabs the thigh of journalist Mercedes Guzman as he speaks during a public event in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. On Monday, May 5, 2014, Fernandez expressed "anguish for this mess that's been created" in a televised address, but did not specifically apologize for touching her. Fernandez has run into controversy before for his treatment of women. In 2012, he was filmed running his hands over the bottom of a female legislator at a ceremony. At another event, he planted a lengthy kiss on a seemingly unwilling female engineer. (AP Photo/Giga Vision via APTN) NO ACCESS BOLIVIA - NO PUBLICAR EN BOLIVIA

Bolivia mayor apologizes for grabbing woman on TV

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 11:59 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2005 file photo, former President of El Salvador Francisco Flores announces his candidacy for Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) at the presidential house in San Salvador, El Salvador. El Salvador's top prosecutors are seeking on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 the arrest of Flores, who is accused of embezzlement, illegal enrichment and disobedience. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

El Salvador judge orders former president’s arrest

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 11:55 pm

FILE - In this Monday, May 5, 2014, file photo, the Vatican's United Nations ambassador in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, arrives prior to the U.N. torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva. Tomasi revealed comprehensive statistics for the first time Tuesday on how the Vatican has disciplined priests accused of raping and molesting children, saying 848 priests have been defrocked and another 2,572 given lesser sanctions over the past decade. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)

Vatican: 848 priests defrocked for abuse since ’04

JOHN HEILPRINNICOLE WINFIELD · May 6, 2014 11:10 pm

Demonstrators argue with police during a protest by Greek schoolteachers, school guards and cleaning ladies outside the Public Administration Reform Ministry in central Athens, on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. About 300 people took part in the peaceful protest, demanding that the Greek government revokes its decision to cut thousands of public sector jobs under the financially troubled country's bailout committments. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek PM says won’t seek more bailout money

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 10:57 pm

FILE -- In this Sept. 16, 2013 file photo, men work on the Costa Concordia ship as it lies on its side on the Tuscan Island of Giglio. One of the tanks fastened to the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner to help prepare it for removal to land has shifted, Tuesday, may 6, 2014. The consortium overseeing the operation said in a statement that the cause was under investigation and that there was no damage to the ship. Workers fastened the first tank to the starboard side of the ship last week. The tanks, 19 in all, were being filled with water to help stabilize the Concordia, now resting on an artificial seabed after it was set upright in September. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Tank to float Concordia shifts

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 10:49 pm

FILE - In this Monday April 21, 2014 file photo, four female students of government secondary school Chibok, who were abducted by gunmen and reunited with their families walk in Chibok, Nigeria. The number of kidnapped schoolgirls missing in Nigeria has risen to 276, up by more than 30 from a previous estimate, police said, adding that the actual number abducted by Islamic extremists on April 14 was more than 300. Police Commissioner Tanko Lawan said the number of girls and young women who have escaped also has risen, to 53. (AP Photo/ Haruna Umar, File)

Nigerian girl describes kidnap, 276 still missing

Michelle Faul · May 6, 2014 10:26 pm

El-Sissi pushes Egyptians to line up behind him

Lee Keathsarah, El Deeb · May 6, 2014 10:13 pm

A shopper looks at a T-shirt decorated with a marijuana leaf and the word " Mujicannabis," a combination of the president's last name "Mujica" and cannabis, at a head shop in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Uruguay's President Jose Mujica is set to sign a law creating the country's legal marijuana market,making Uruguay the first country in the world to create a nationwide market regulating the cultivation, sale and use of legal marijuana. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Uruguay rule-signing launches marijuana market

Leonardo Haberkorn · May 6, 2014 10:07 pm

Police: UK teen not likely bullied online

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 9:28 pm