Tag: World

National Security

Guantanamo trial in 9/11 veers off track again

Ben Fox · April 18, 2014 12:51 am

UN Security Council meets on rights in North Korea

Cara Anna · April 17, 2014 11:39 pm

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrives on a wheelchair to vote in the presidential elections in Algiers, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Algerians are trickling into the polls to elect a new president of this oil-rich North African nation in an election expected to be won by the ailing incumbent. President Bouteflika has ruled this nation for the past 15 years and, despite suffering from a stroke, is running for a fourth term on a platform of stability. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub)

Opposition cries fraud in Algerian election

Paul Schemm · April 17, 2014 11:26 pm

Gulf Arab states strike new deal to heal rifts

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 10:38 pm

Ukraine OKs intl court, may probe Kiev deaths

Mike Corder · April 17, 2014 9:57 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before a bilateral meeting to discuss the ongoing situation in Ukraine as diplomats from the U.S., Ukraine, Russia and the European Union gather for discussions in Geneva Thursday, April 17, 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)

Who gained, and what, at Ukraine talks

Jim Heintz · April 17, 2014 9:54 pm

A Ukrainian soldier is seen in a tank of the Ukrainian Army, as they are blocked by people on their way to the town of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Pro-Russian insurgents commandeered six Ukrainian armored vehicles along with their crews and hoisted Russian flags over them Wednesday, dampening the central government's hopes of re-establishing control over restive eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Ukrainian unity on display with peaceful rallies

PETER LEONARDYURAS KARMANAU · April 17, 2014 9:48 pm

ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XLAT301 - FILE - This undated file photo of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is seen in an unknown location. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. Garcia Marquez's magical realist novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality. (AP Photo/Hamilton, File)

Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

E. EDUARDO CASTILLOFRANK BAJAK · April 17, 2014 9:37 pm

President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2014. The president spoke about health care overhaul and the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Deal reached on calming Ukraine tensions _ for now

JOHN HEILPRINLARA JAKES · April 17, 2014 9:26 pm

Security men stand guard in front of a bus conveying All progressives Congress opposition governors after visiting victims of at the Accident and Emergency unit of Asokoro hospital where injured people from Monday's explosion at a bus station are receiving treatment in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Scores of peopledied in the the blast that destroyed more than 30 vehicles and caused secondary explosions as their fuel tanks exploded and burned. The Monday attack just miles from Nigeria's seat of government increases doubts about the military's ability to contain an Islamic uprising that is dividing the country on religious lines as never before. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)

Nigerians search unsafe forest for abducted girls

HARUNA UMARMICHELLE FAUL · April 17, 2014 9:24 pm

US Senator John McCain, left, shakes hands with Moldova's President Nicolae Timofti, right, in Chisinau, Moldova, Thursday, April 17, 2014. McCain warned of tougher sanctions against Russia if it did not cease fomenting unrest in the region, while Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Ukraine to end a blockade of Moldova's separatist province Trans-Dniester. (AP Photo)

US senators support Moldova in EU bid

Corneliu Rusnac · April 17, 2014 9:12 pm

French military frees 5 aid workers in N Mali

Jamey Keaten · April 17, 2014 9:10 pm