Tag: World

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, black smoke rises from the rooftop of a building that was, according to SANA, attacked by a mortar shelled by the Syrian rebels in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Al-Qaida's leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, called on fighters to determine who killed his chief representative in Syria, a man many militant groups believe died at the hands of a rival militia, in a move that highlighted a conflict between rebels that has killed hundreds. (AP Photo/SANA)

Iran sends Syria 30,000 tons of food supplies

Barbara Surk · April 8, 2014 10:25 pm

Spanish Parliament rejects Catalonia bid

Ciaran Giles · April 8, 2014 10:17 pm

Uruguay to give medicinal marijuana to prisoners

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 9:29 pm

Chile: ancient mummies damaged by quake

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 9:27 pm

French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier pulls a face as he speaks to the media during a Q&A session during the launch his exhibition 'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier : From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk' at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Jean Paul Gaultier pays tribute to London

Sylvia Hui · April 8, 2014 9:20 pm

Raw: Violent Clashes Erupt in Cairo

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 8:53 pm

UN rights chief blames most crimes on Syrian gov’t

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · April 8, 2014 8:47 pm

Ukraine tries to quell pro-Moscow uprisings

Peter Leonard · April 8, 2014 8:33 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2008 file photo, Sherone Simpson of Jamaica at the end of a women's 200-meter heat in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The Jamaican Olympic sprinter was banned from her sport Tuesday, April 8, 2014, until Dec. 20 after testing positive for a banned substance. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Jamaican sprinter Simpson gets ban

David McFadden · April 8, 2014 8:18 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, file photo Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, right, and Gerry Adams attend the funeral of Catholic Priest Alec Reid Clonard Monastery, West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Relations between Britain and Ireland have experienced many highs and lows in a century marked by rebellion, terror and treaties. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Century of clashes, compromise between UK, Ireland

Shawn Pogatchnik · April 8, 2014 8:06 pm

FILE - In this March 20, 2013 file photo, people walk past an image of Susana Trimarco that covers a wall in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trimarco is known for her crusade to find her daughter, Maria de los Angeles "Marita" Veron, who disappeared in 2002. A court in Argentina on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, has handed down sentences of 10 to 22 years in prison to 10 defendants accused of kidnapping and forcing into prostitution Marita, whose disappearance raised global awareness about people trafficking. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Argentine court gives long terms for sex slavery

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 8:06 pm

Oscar Pistorius, leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Pistorius wails while recalling shooting

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAGERALD IMRAY · April 8, 2014 7:22 pm