Tag: World

Canadian-Egyptian acting Al-Jazeera bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy talks to the judge in the Police Academy courthouse along with several other defendants during their trial on terror charges in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Fahmy made a rare appeal to the judge from outside of the defendants' cage, at the end of which the judge wished him a "happy" World Press Freedom Day. In his brief plea Saturday, Fahmy stood directly before the judge's bench. Fahmy said journalists have to speak to all sides to do their jobs including both the government and the Muslim Brotherhood, among others. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)

Al-Jazeera reporter held in Egypt appeals to judge

Laura Dean · May 3, 2014 3:05 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about U.S. policy in Africa at the Gullele Botanic Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, May 3, 2014. America's top diplomat said the U.S. is ready to help increase its ties with Africa, but nations across the continent need to take stronger steps to ensure security and democracy for its people. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

National Security

Kerry urges steps to ensure democracy in Africa

Lara Jakes · May 3, 2014 1:29 pm

Bodies of victims are laid in a row on the ground in Kokrajhar, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Friday, May 2, 2014. Separatist militants opened fire with automatic weapons on Muslim villagers in remote northeastern India, killing at least 10 people, including two children, in two attacks, police said Friday. Four people were wounded. (AP Photo)

Arrests made in India after rebels kill 29 Muslims

Wasbir Hussain · May 3, 2014 6:59 am

Energy and Environment

Guides hope Everest deaths will impel safety fixes

Nick Perry · May 3, 2014 6:39 am

Bodies of victims are laid in a row on the ground in Kokrajhar, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Friday, May 2, 2014. Separatist militants opened fire with automatic weapons on Muslim villagers in remote northeastern India, killing at least 10 people, including two children, in two attacks, police said Friday. Four people were wounded. (AP Photo)

Indian army called after rebels kill 29 Muslims

Wasbir Hussain · May 3, 2014 4:31 am

Uruguay leader calls Colorado pot law ‘a fiction’

Leonardo Haberkorn · May 3, 2014 4:11 am

Venezuela's Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres speaks during a news conference at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 2, 2014. Torres, on Friday, denounced the existence of an alleged plot to promote street protests in recent months in the country, and said that 58 foreigners, including one American, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in those events. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela: Alleged plan to provoke protests

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2014 3:13 am

National Security

Edward Snowden appears via video at Toronto debate

Charmaine Noronha · May 3, 2014 2:55 am

Disney Latin America’s Violetta gives free concert

Debora Rey · May 3, 2014 2:19 am

UN: Torture of detainees common in Mexico

Eduardo Castillo · May 3, 2014 2:01 am

Firefighters evacuate an injured man outside the burnt trade union building where more than 30 people died trying to escape during clashes in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday, May 2, 2014. Odessa had been largely tranquil since the February toppling of President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia. But clashes erupted Friday between pro-Russians and government supporters in the key port on the Black Sea coast, located 550 kilometers (330 miles) from the turmoil in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov)

Ukrainian unrest spreads; dozens dead in Odessa

JIM HEINTZPETER LEONARD · May 3, 2014 1:23 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)

Brother: Rob Ford will overcome ‘little challenge’

Rob Gillies · May 3, 2014 1:07 am