Tag: World

CHINA EXPLOSION

fduckettf.duckett · April 30, 2014 10:10 pm

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife. (AP Photo)

Iraqis vote in an election without foreign troops

HAMZA HENDAWISINAN SALAHEDDIN · April 30, 2014 9:47 pm

A person holds up a photograph of former Venezuelan Intelligence Chief Eliezer Otaiza as his flag-draped coffin is carried outside the National Assembly during his funeral procession in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Otaiza's body was dumped on the edge of Caracas Saturday after his vehicle was intercepted by a group of armed men. No motive has been established for the crime. As a young army officer, he backed Hugo Chavez's failed 1992 coup attempt and was responsible for his personal security when he was elected president in 1998. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Arrest made in slaying of Venezuela ex-spy chief

Jorge Rueda · April 30, 2014 9:45 pm

This image provided by NTV News via The Canadian Press shows a rotting blue whale carcass sitting on the shore in Trout River, Canada, Sunday, April 27, 2014. (AP Photo/NTV News via The Canadian Press, Don Bradshaw) NO ARCHIVES NO SALES MANDATORY CREDIT

Beached dead whale stinks up town in Newfoundland

Washington Examiner · April 30, 2014 9:33 pm

Russia evokes Nazi horrors to bash Ukraine

EFREM LUKATSKYNATALIYA VASILYEVA · April 30, 2014 9:31 pm

Mill workers talk as a police officer walks away following a shooting at Western Forest Products in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Four people were shot Wednesday at the lumber mill, police said they arrived at the mill within minutes and arrested the suspect. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chad Hipolito)

Canadian coroner: 2 shot dead at BC mill

Jeremy Hainsworth · April 30, 2014 9:29 pm

UN Security Council members despair over Syria aid

Cara Anna · April 30, 2014 9:27 pm

FILE - A Monday Oct. 30 2006 photo from files showing ast member British actor Bob Hoskins giving a television interview as he arrives at a gala screening for the film 'Hollywoodland' as part of the London Film Festival at a West End cinema in Leicester Square, London. Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from "Mona Lisa" to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" has died aged 71. A family statement released Wednesday by agent Clair Dobbs said Hoskins died in a hospital after a bout of pneumonia. In 2012 Hoskins announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was retiring from acting. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ actor Hoskins dies at 71

Jill Lawless · April 30, 2014 9:22 pm

National Security

US contractors profiled ‘Cuban Twitter’ responses

Washington Examiner · April 30, 2014 9:15 pm

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams arrested over IRA’s 1972 abduction, killing of Belfast woman

Washington Examiner · April 30, 2014 8:19 pm

Mexico border city holds festival despite deaths

Washington Examiner · April 30, 2014 8:18 pm

Pro Russian masked armed militants guard barricades near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Ukraine's police and security forces are "helpless" to quell unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia, and in some cases are cooperating with pro-Russian gunmen who have seized scores of government buildings and taken people hostage, the country's president Oleksandr Turchynov said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Kiev: Forces “helpless” to restore order in east

MARIA DANILOVAPETER LEONARD · April 30, 2014 8:02 pm