Tag: World

In this picture taken on early Sunday April 20, 2014, Saleh Zawaraa, 28, center, arrives on horseback after being severely injured by a tank shell as he tried to bring bread into the Syrian village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. He and other Syrians refugees came over 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. The village of Beit Jinn has been under siege by Syrian troops for months, and no food and medicine has been allowed to reach thousands of trapped civilians inside.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

AP PHOTOS: Syrians on treacherous trek to safety

Hussein Malla · April 23, 2014 7:34 am

In this picture taken near the town of Harrachov, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 deer cross a creek in a winter enclosure. The Iron Curtain was traced by a real electrified barbed-wire fence that isolated the communist world from the West. It was an impenetrable Cold War barrier _ and for some inhabitants of the Czech Republic it still is. Deer still balk at crossing the border with Germany even though the physical fence came down a quarter century ago, with the painful Cold War past apparently still governing their behavior, new studies show. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Former Iron Curtain still barrier for deer

Karel Janicek · April 23, 2014 6:51 am

FILE - In this April 15, 1963 file photo, Pope John XXIII sits at his working desk in his studio in a IX century tower in the Vatican gardens. In background the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. The Pontiff found the tower - once a fortress and later the Vatican observatory - abandoned and in decay. He liked it, particularly for the beautiful view from its covered terrace, embracing a great part of Rome and the surrounding country, in clear weather as far as the sea, distant about 25 kilometers (16 miles). He had it repaired and spends many days working in the studio he has had arranged there. While much of the focus of Sunday's dual canonization will be on Pope John Paul II's globe-trotting, 26-year papacy and his near-record sprint to sainthood, many older Catholics will be celebrating the short but historic pontificate of the "Good Pope," John XXIII. (AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File)

Pope John XXIII launched Vatican II and then some

Nicole Winfield · April 23, 2014 6:33 am

Ground crew check the Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore that turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Australia signals deeper search for Malaysian jet

Rod McGuirk · April 23, 2014 6:02 am

Pirates rob Japanese tanker in Malacca Strait

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 5:39 am

In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014, searchers and divers look for people believed to have been trapped in the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea. One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from the South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago. (AP Photo/Korea Pool) KOREA OUT

SKorea ferry toll hits 146 as search gets tougher

GILLIAN WONGHYUNG-JIN KIM · April 23, 2014 4:12 am

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, as U.S. President Barack Obama looks on before their trilateral meeting at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in the Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT

Obama visit to Asia seen as counterweight to China

Elaine Kurtenbach · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

In this image taken from video, dead bodies lie on the road near Bentiu, South Sudan, on Sunday, April 20, 2014. The United Nations' top humanitarian official in South Sudan, Toby Lanzer, told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, that the ethnically targeted killings are "quite possibly a game-changer" for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities. There was also a disturbing echo of Rwanda, which is marking the 20th anniversary this month of its genocide that killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Toby Lanzer, United Nations)

‘Piles and piles’ of bodies in S. Sudan slaughter

Jason Straziuso · April 23, 2014 3:15 am

Violence erupts in Rio slum near Olympic venues

Bradley Brooks · April 23, 2014 2:54 am

Vietnam sentences American man to death for heroin

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 2:39 am

FILE - In this March 19, 2014, file photo, Bogota's Mayor Gustavo Petro speaks to supporters from a balcony of the city hall in Bogota, Colombia. A Colombian court has ordered, Tuesday April 22, 2014, the reinstatement within 48 hours of ousted Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro. Petro was removed from office in March after President Juan Manuel Santos refused to heed the Inter-American Human Rights Commission's call for a stay on the Inspector General's ouster of the mayor months earlier for alleged administrative missteps. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara,File)

Colombia court reinstates ousted Bogota mayor

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 2:36 am

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2013, file photo, workers set up a polling station at a school in Santiago, Chile. Chile has reformed its constitution, Tuesday April 22, 2014, to give voting rights to citizens living outside the country. The measure was more than 20 years in the making, and is seen as a major victory for the many Chileans who left the country during its long dictatorship. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo,File)

Chile amends constitution to allow expat voting

Eva Vergara · April 23, 2014 2:33 am