Tag: World

Bus accident kills 8 kids on school trip in China

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2014 8:39 am

Israel launches new spy satellite

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2014 8:04 am

FILE - In this Saturday, April 5, 2014 file photo, roses lay in front of a picture of the Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, who was killed April 4, 2014 in Afghanistan, in Paris. Fellow officers say the Afghan police commander who killed Niedringhaus and wounded reporter Kathy Gannon seemed a calm, pious man who may have come under the influence of Islamic fundamentalists calling for vengeance against foreigners over drone strikes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

National Security

Afghan probe begins in attack on AP journalists

AMIR SHAHKIM GAMEL · April 10, 2014 7:36 am

Police bomb disposal experts search for evidence next to remains of a car after a car bomb explosion in central Athens on Thursday, April 10, 2014. A bomb exploded outside a Bank of Greece building in central Athens before dawn Thursday, causing some damage but no injuries. The blast came hours before Greece was to return to the international bond markets for the first time in four years, and a day before German Chancellor Angela Merkel was to visit Athens.(AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

Car bomb explodes outside Bank of Greece

ELENA BECATOROSNICHOLAS PAPHITIS · April 10, 2014 7:06 am

FILE - In this March 5, 2011 file photo, an anti-government rebel sits with an anti-aircraft weapon in front an oil refinery, after the capture of the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya. The official Libyan news agency said Sunday, April 6, 2014 that the country's main militia in the east has agreed to hand back control of four oil terminals it captured and shut down last summer in its demand for a share in oil revenues. The shutdown has cost Libya millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

In Libya, politicians in fear of powerful militias

Maggie Michael · April 10, 2014 6:46 am

Members of An-Nadzir Muslim sect cast their ballots at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Gowa, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Polls opened Wednesday for nearly 187 million Indonesians eligible to vote in single-day legislative elections, a huge feat in the still-young democracy that's expected to help clear the path for the country's next president. (AP Photo/Masyudi S. Firmansyah)

Indonesia opposition leads, but less than expected

ali-kotarumalos · April 10, 2014 5:40 am

Lawmakers hold a session at Mexico's national Congress in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Over the decades, corruption scandals have tainted presidents, brought down mayors, seen generals jailed and led to charges against untold numbers of police. But Congress has remained largely untouched. Now, that perception has changed, leaving Mexicans wondering if there is any institution in the country left untouched by corruption. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico congressmen charge mayors for federal funds

Eduardo Castillo · April 10, 2014 4:01 am

Fredy Vegas, 33, a migrant from Honduras who uses a prosthetic leg after loosing his limb while riding the train through Mexico toward the U.S. border, poses for a portrait at a migrant shelter in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Vegas is in Mexico City, along with other Honduran migrants who lost limbs after falling from trains during northbound journeys across Mexico, to ask the country's Senate to stop the government's persecution of Central Americans and protect them from criminal gangs. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Honduran migrants ask Mexico to allow free passage

Mark Stevenson · April 10, 2014 3:09 am

Argentine federal police stage major drug raids

Washington Examiner · April 9, 2014 10:41 pm

Toronto police's forensic unit arrives at an office building following a stabbing in Toronto, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. A man stabbed four of his colleagues at a Toronto office building before being subdued, police said Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

4 people stabbed at Canada office building

Rob Gillies · April 9, 2014 10:02 pm

National Security

US troops may be sent to Eastern Europe

JohnThor Dahlburg · April 9, 2014 9:50 pm

Pink eye extends school closures in American Samoa

Fili Sagapolutele · April 9, 2014 9:41 pm