Tag: World

Thai activist who opposed lese majeste law killed

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 11:44 am

FILE - In this May 22 2013 file photo, climbers descend Khumbu Icefall on their way back to Base Camo after summitting the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) Mount Everest. With its dreams of covering a daredevil's attempt to jump off Mount Everest over, the Discovery network is instead making a documentary on the avalanche, Friday, 18, 2014, that killed more than a dozen mountain guides. Discovery President Eileen O'Neill said Tuesday, April 22, the network hopes to air the film within the next few weeks. Discovery will encourage viewers to donate to a relief fund for families of the Sherpa guides killed in the disaster. Several of the Sherpas killed were helping prepare for American Joby Ogwyn's planned jump from the summit in a wingsuit. Discovery planned to show the stunt on live television May 11.(AP Photo/ Pasang Geljen Sherpa, FIle)

Energy and Environment

Climate change likely to make Everest even riskier

Katy Daigle · April 23, 2014 11:21 am

Hong Kong's leader, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, right, speaks as hostage survivor Yik Siu-ling, center, and Tse Chi-kin, left, brother of killed hostage victim Masa Tse Ting-chunn listen during a news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Hong Kong and the Philippines reached a compromise Wednesday over Hong Kong's demands for an apology for the families of eight tourists killed in a bungled response to a 2010 Manila hostage-taking that soured relations. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

HK, Philippines compromise over tourist deaths

Kelvin Chan · April 23, 2014 11:11 am

Afghan ballot counters read instructions on how to count and register votes in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 20, 2014. New partial results in Afghanistan's presidential election released Sunday show candidate Abdullah Abdullah is still the front-runner, though a runoff election looks likely. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

Afghan election commission delays vote results

Kay Johnson · April 23, 2014 11:11 am

In India’s vote, Hindu holy city is battleground

Nirmala George · April 23, 2014 10:51 am

President and CEO of Formula One Management Bernie Ecclestone arrives at the Circuit of the Americas for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

F1 boss Ecclestone goes on trial in bribery case

Nesha Starcevic · April 23, 2014 10:45 am

China says quality of its groundwater has worsened

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 10:23 am

Material on Australian shore examined in jet hunt

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 9:54 am

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks.

National Security

Blair: Radicalized Islam a growing threat

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 9:25 am

FILE - In this April 19, 2014 file photo, Lee Joon-seok, center, the captain of the sunken ferry boat Sewol in the water off the southern coast, arrives at the headquarters of a joint investigation team of prosecutors and police in Mokpo, south of Seoul, South Korea. A colleague calls Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on the ship. Yet there he was, captured in video on the day his ferry sank with hundreds trapped inside, being treated onshore after allegedly landing on one of the first rescue boats. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT

Captain who left doomed ferry had 40 years at sea

FOSTER KLUGYOUKYUNG LEE · April 23, 2014 9:19 am

UN heads say Syria aid needs ‘largely unanswered’

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 8:58 am

Protesters shout slogans during a rally at U.S. Embassy against next week's visit of U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday, April 23, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Philippine police armed with truncheon, shields and water hose clashed with more than 100 left-wing activists who rallied at the embassy to oppose a visit by Obama and a looming pact that will increase the American military presence in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Anti-Obama protesters clash with police in Manila

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 8:57 am