Tag: World

The head of foreign military observers, German Col. Axel Schneider, speaks to the media after he has been feed, in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 3, 2014. The leader of pro-Russia insurgents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk said the military observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe who were held for more than a week have been released. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

OSCE observers held in Ukraine released

JIM HEINTZPETER LEONARD · May 3, 2014 8:22 pm

In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry, soldiers inspect the wreckage of a vehicle destroyed during fighting with al-Qaida militants in Majala of the southern province of Abyan, Yemen. (AP Photo/Yemen's Defense Ministry)

National Security

Al-Qaida announces death of a leader in Yemen

Ahmed AlHaj · May 3, 2014 6:50 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, Israel's President Shimon Peres delivers a statement following the death of late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the President's residence in Jerusalem. Among those vying to become Israel's next president are a former defense minister, a former foreign minister, a former finance minister, a respected long-serving lawmaker and a Nobel Prize winner. Amazingly, the man they all seek to replace has held all of those titles and more during a legendary 65-year political career. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israel’s race to succeed President Shimon Peres heats up

Aron Heller · May 3, 2014 6:23 pm

Hundreds occupy land near Cup stadium in Brazil

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2014 5:49 pm

Slovenia PM resigns, seeks new elections

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2014 5:39 pm

Afghans search for survivors after Friday's landslide buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Afghan rescuers and hundreds of volunteers armed with shovels rushed on Saturday to help villagers hit by a massive landslide in the remote northeast a day earlier, officials said, while fears of a new torrent of mud and earth complicated rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Gulrahim Niazman)

Rescuers struggle to help Afghans hit by landslide

AMIR SHAHREBECCA SANTANA · May 3, 2014 5:34 pm

National Security

Hard-liners in Iran protest nuclear deal

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2014 5:25 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother, Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. On Friday, May 2, the senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded Adams' immediate release, as police sought to extend his interrogation over McConville's murder. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Belfast police seek evidence of Adams’ IRA past

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 3, 2014 5:18 pm

FILE - This file photo released on Thursday Nov. 29, 2012 by the anti-government activist group Homs City Union of The Syrian Revolution, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens walking in a destroyed street that was attacked by Syrian forces warplanes, at Abu al-Hol street in Homs province, Syria. Syria's government and rebels agreed to a ceasefire on Friday, May 2, 2014 in the battleground city of Homs to allow hundreds of fighters holed up in its old quarters to evacuate, a deal that will bring the country's third-largest city under control of forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Homs City Union of The Syrian Revolution, File)

Syria activists say evacuations from Homs delayed

Diaa Hadid · May 3, 2014 4:58 pm

102 sentenced as Egypt’s presidential race starts

Maamoun Youssef · May 3, 2014 4:32 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, May 1, 2014, a model backstage is prepared to display a creation by designer Fayzeh Pearl ahead the opening day of the Palestine Fashion Week 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. While Ramallah is not internationally known for fashion, organizers hope that its Palestinian Fashion Week will draw more attention to local designers. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

AP PHOTOS: Fashion show sweeps into West Bank

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2014 4:08 pm

Pope sex abuse panel highlights accountability

Nicole Winfield · May 3, 2014 3:36 pm