Tag: World

A girl prays in front of paper ships bearing messages for the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a group memorial altar in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 5, 2014. More than 300 people are dead or missing in the water off the southern coast in the disaster that caused widespread grief, anger and shame. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Civilian diver dies in South Korea ferry searches

HYUNG-JIN KIMJUNG-YOON CHOI · May 6, 2014 3:03 am

A woman attends a demonstration in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, May 5, 2014, urging the government to increase efforts to rescue the hundreds of abducted female students from a government secondary school. Saratu Angus Ndirpaya, the leader of a protest march, said Nigeria's first lady ordered her and another protest leader to be arrested Monday. The two were accused by the first lady of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions. Police say that nearly 300 girls and young women were abducted in mid-April from Chibok Government Girls Secondary School. At least 53 girls are known to have escaped. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria group threatens to sell kidnapped girls

Michelle Faul · May 6, 2014 2:59 am

A woman looks at a partly damaged house following an earthquake in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Monday, May 5, 2014. A strong earthquake shook northern Thailand and Myanmar on Monday evening, and some light damage was reported. (AP Photo)

Quake cracks roads in north Thailand, 1 killed

Thanyarat Doksone · May 6, 2014 2:37 am

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)

Salvadoran authorities suspect ex-president fled

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 1:08 am

Mourners attend the funeral of 21-year old nurse Yulia Izotova in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Monday, May 5, 2014. Witnesses say Izotova was killed by shots from a Ukrainian military column on the road near Kramatorsk. Ukraine sent an elite national guard unit to re-establish control Monday over the southern port of Odessa and government troops fought pitched gunbattles with a pro-Russia militia around an eastern city. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Ukraine sends elite force to Odessa due to unrest

RADUL RADOVANOVICYURAS KARMANAU · May 6, 2014 1:01 am

South Korea diver dies in sunken ferry searches

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 12:40 am

Officials: Civilian diver searching for missing people in South Korean ferry disaster has died

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 12:27 am

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home early Thursday May 1, 2014, in Toronto. Ford will take an immediate leave of absence to seek help for alcohol, he said, as a report surfaced about a second video of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

Correction: Canada-Toronto Mayor

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 11:05 pm

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, speaks during a press conference, accompanied by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, left, Congressman Sam Farr, second from right, and Congressman Gregory Meeks at the Hotel Saratoga in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 5, 2014. Congresswoman Lee spoke about the situation of imprisoned U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Congress members visit American jailed in Cuba

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 10:45 pm

South Sudanese Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin, right, welcomes US Secretary of State John Kerry upon his arrival at Juba International Airport, South Sudan, Friday May 2, 2014. Kerry, landing in the capital Juba on Friday, carried the threat of U.S. sanctions against prominent South Sudanese leaders if the rampant violence doesn't stop. But more than anything, he sought to compel authorities on both sides of the fight to put aside personal and tribal animosities for the good of a nation that declared independence three years ago to escape decades of war. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Fierce fight in S. Sudan oil town; rebels counter

ELIAS MESERETJASON STRAZIUSO · May 5, 2014 10:28 pm

‘Vagina Monologues’ to get New York run in Spanish

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 9:51 pm

In this photo released by the Hellenic Coast Guard, local fishermen look a yacht used to transport immigrants illegally that overturned in a fatal accident near the Greek island of Samos, on Monday, May 5, 2014. At least 22 people drowned in the incident in the eastern Aegean Sea, while 36 were rescued and others remain missing. Coast guard officials recovered the bodies of two women, a man and a boy from the sea, and later found a further 18 bodies, including three children, inside the yacht after it was towed to Samos.(AP Photo/Hellenic Coast Guard)

Greece: Smuggling boats capsize, 22 migrants drown

Nicholas Paphitis · May 5, 2014 9:41 pm