Tag: World

N. Korea criticizes ‘human rights racket’ of US

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 6:42 pm

Local residents look at the airborne combat vehicle, which was destroyed during a Ukrainian night combat operation, in the village of Horodychevo, near Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 18, 2014. Ukraine is hoping to placate Russia and calm hostilities with its neighbor even as the U.S. prepares a new round of sanctions to punish Moscow for what it regards as fomenting unrest. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

57-nation OSCE plays key Ukraine monitoring role

George Jahn · April 18, 2014 6:30 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2006 file photo, Cuba's acting President Raul Castro, brother of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, left, chats with Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez during a military parade in Havana, Cuba. Marquez died on Thursday, April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP Photo/ Javier Galeano, File)

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Associated Press · April 18, 2014 6:16 pm

Pilgrims carry crosses during Good Friday in Jerusalem Friday, April 18, 2014, as Christians commemorated the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.(AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Christians mark Good Friday in the Holy Land

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 5:50 pm

This Monday, April 14, 2014 photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government soldiers gathering outside a damaged hotel that Syrian rebels had been using, in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Syrian government troops seized two villages, one of them an ancient Christian hamlet, north of Damascus on Monday, as part of the military's relentless offensive along the rugged frontier with Lebanon, state media and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Syrian state TV: 14 killed in car bombing in Homs

MAAMOUN YOUSSEFZEINA KARAM · April 18, 2014 5:41 pm

Anti-semitic Leaflets Posted in Eastern Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 5:36 pm

French President Hollande’s top aide resigns

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 5:13 pm

In Egypt, a corruption watchdog hit by backlash

maggie-michaelsarah, El Deeb · April 18, 2014 5:09 pm

Algeria’s ailing incumbent president wins 4th term with 81 percent of vote

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 3:43 pm

Ukraine insurgents reject call to quit buildings

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · April 18, 2014 3:38 pm

FILE - In this Friday, May 29, 2009 file photo, Senior White House adviser David Axelrod speaks during a television interview in the press briefing room at the White House in Washington. Britain's opposition Labour Party has recruited Axelrod, a top adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama's campaigns, to help with its leader's election bid next year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

UK opposition party hires top Obama adviser

Sylvia Hui · April 18, 2014 3:21 pm

Maulana Abdul Aziz, head cleric of a Pakistani seminary, sits in a library named after slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Friday, April 18, 2014 in Islamabad, Pakistan. A controversial Pakistani cleric who runs an Islamic seminary for girls in the capital of Islamabad has named the school's newly built library in honor of Osama bin Laden, his spokesman and a school administrator said Friday. Notices read instructions about library rules. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan library named ‘bin Laden’ as memory fades

Munir Ahmed · April 18, 2014 2:56 pm