Tag: World

Iraq closes notorious prison over security issues

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2014 9:28 am

In this April 9, 2014 photo, lawyer Tang Jitian waits in an emergency room as a doctor checks his X-ray photo at a hospital in Beijing. Tang is among a group of four Chinese rights lawyers who allege they were tortured by police after being rounded up in late March outside a detention center in a farming community on the northeastern edge of China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Chinese lawyers say they were tortured by police

Didi Tang · April 15, 2014 8:52 am

Migrant-smuggling suspect killed in Greece

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2014 8:51 am

Mexico pledges own anti-money laundering list

Eduardo Castillo · April 15, 2014 2:24 am

A man stands behind a wall as an out of control forest fire destroys homes in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, Sunday April 13, 2014. Firefighters struggled for a second night to contain blazes that reached this port city, killing at least a dozen people, destroyed hundreds homes and has forced the evacuation of thousands. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Fires still besiege Chile port; 15 dead, 500 hurt

Eva Vergara · April 15, 2014 1:43 am

Vietnam releases dissidents amid foreign pressure

Chris Brummitt · April 15, 2014 12:35 am

ADVANCE FOR DENIS GRAY'S THE TRAFFICKING STORY - In this photo taken, Feb. 6, 2012, released by The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), Chut Wutty, left, stands next to a logging in a jungle in Kampong Thom province in northern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Wutty was described as one of the few remaining activists in Cambodia brave enough to fight against massive illegal deforestation by the powerful. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights)

Energy and Environment

Killing of environmental activists rises globally

Denis Gray · April 15, 2014 12:11 am

Egypt: El-Sissi in final step to run for president

Hamza Hendawi · April 14, 2014 10:59 pm

Pro-Russian men storm a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka on Monday, April 14, 2014. Several government buildings have fallen to mobs of Moscow loyalists in recent days as unrest spreads across the east of the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

National Security

Ukraine struggles as east slips out of its control

MARIA DANILOVAPETER LEONARD · April 14, 2014 10:25 pm

2 charged with migrant smuggling in Virgin Islands

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2014 10:23 pm

Israel irked by diplomat’s tacit Nazi remark

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · April 14, 2014 9:52 pm

Victims of a blast lie on the ground as fire and smoke rise at a bus park in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 14, 2014. A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria's capital, killing and wounding scores of people in a bombing that marked the bloodiest terrorist attack ever in Abuja. (AP Photo/Kayode Olamikan)

Blast at bus station in Nigerian capital kills 72

BASHIR ADIGUNMICHELLE FAUL · April 14, 2014 9:27 pm