Tag: World

KOBANI AERIAL

fduckettf.duckett · October 17, 2014 8:50 pm

A fire truck drives towards smoke caused by an attack by Islamist militias during clashes with forces led by renegade Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Islamist militias fought Wednesday with forces loyal to Hifter, who vows to seize the eastern city of Benghazi, as a top militia commander accused Egypt of bombing his positions with warplanes. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Sheikhy)

National Security

In Libya’s Benghazi, mood of resignation over war

OMAR ALMOSMARIMAGGIE MICHAEL · October 17, 2014 8:34 pm

Aecio Neves, who is running for president with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, kisses the hands of his former rival candidate Marina Silva, of the Brazilian Socialist Party, who supported Neves after she finished third in the first-round of elections, at a campaign event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Neves will face Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in a presidential runoff on Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Ousted Brazil candidate meets, endorses challenger

Stan Lehman · October 17, 2014 8:31 pm

Mexican activists under fire after blogger kidnap

Mexican activists under fire after blogger kidnap

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 8:25 pm

Protesters cry as some of the protesters are beaten by riot police in the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. New scuffles broke out Friday night between Hong Kong riot police and pro-democracy activists in a district where police cleared protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong police arrest 26 amid street clashes

SYLVIA HUIKELVIN CHAN · October 17, 2014 7:49 pm

A group of Japanese lawmakers follow a Shinto priest to pay respect for the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine during an annual autumn festival in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko).

Japan PM sends offerings to war shrine

Mari Yamaguchi · October 17, 2014 7:31 pm

Houthi Shiite rebels collect blankets ahead of remove tents erected two months ago, at a sit-in in a main road leading to the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemeni Shiite rebels overrun al-Qaida stronghold

ahmed-alhajj · October 17, 2014 7:27 pm

UN now training Ebola survivors to help with care

UN now training Ebola survivors to help with care

Cara Anna · October 17, 2014 7:09 pm

FILE - This undated image posted on Aug. 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters of the Islamic State group waving the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is test flying, with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots, several fighter jets captured earlier from air bases belonging to the Syrian military, a Syrian activist group said Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The report by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not be independently confirmed, and U.S. official said they had no reports of Islamic State group militants flying jets in support of their forces on the ground.(AP Photo/ Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

National Security

Former Iraqi pilots train IS fighters on MiG jets

Diaa Hadid · October 17, 2014 7:08 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders in Milan, northern Italy, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to get relief from Western economic sanctions imposed since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its support for a pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine. To that end, he has scheduled a series of meetings on the sidelines of a two-day ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, POOL)

Ukrainian, Russian leaders sound optimistic note

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVCOLLEEN BARRY · October 17, 2014 7:05 pm

A healthcare worker in protective gear is seen at an Ebola treatment center in the west of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. The deadly Ebola virus has infected two people in what was the last untouched district in Sierra Leone, the government said Thursday, a setback in efforts to stop the spread of the disease in one of the hardest-hit countries. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)

UN: We botched response to the Ebola outbreak

Maria Cheng · October 17, 2014 6:47 pm

Iran border guards kill 1 from Pakistani patrol

Iran border guards kill 1 from Pakistani patrol

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 6:38 pm