Tag: World

Man charged with planning Australian terror attack

Man charged with planning Australian terror attack

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 4:12 am

A pro-democracy protester is arrested by riot polices after police moved in the occupied area by the protesters in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Riot police moved in on a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong police clear smaller protest zone

SYLVIA HUIKELVIN CHAN · October 17, 2014 3:05 am

Mexico probes kidnapping of drug-violence blogger

Mexico probes kidnapping of drug-violence blogger

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 2:05 am

U.S. veterans, William Sanchez, center, 96, of Monterey Park, CA., Oral C. Nichols, left, 93, of Carlsbad, NM., and Jack Schwartz, 99, of Hanford, CA, stand together in front of Heiwajima Kannon by the Heiwajima Motorboat Race stand, the former site of Omori camp, where Sanchez was held before going back to the United States, in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. The three former POWs are among seven invited by a Japanese government friendship program that has brought five groups of World War II prisoner of war survivors, almost all of them in their 90s, to visit the camps where they were held nearly 70 years ago during the war and speak about their experiences. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Ex-US POWs visit Japan, recall horrors of war

ELAINE KURTENBACHKAORI HITOMI · October 17, 2014 1:51 am

Brazil police say they arrested serial killer

Brazil police say they arrested serial killer

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 12:42 am

In this Sept. 26, 2014 photo, Thai actress Pimthong Washirakom poses after an interview in Bangkok, Thailand. Up-and-coming starlet Pimthong's debut role as a dangerously beautiful "bad girl" who gets raped in the soap "The Rising Sun" aired last month. Pimthong said that filming of the scene, in which a police detective locks her in his office and rapes her, took place after the girl's rape on the train in July. As the cameras rolled, she broke down in tears. A recent real-life rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train in Thailand has focused national outrage on Thai popular culture, and particularly TV soaps for sending messages that trivialize - and some say encourage - rape. (AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone)

Thai soaps trigger outcry over romanticizing rape

JOCELYN GECKERTHANYARAT DOKSONE · October 17, 2014 12:21 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, Gordon Kamara, left, is sprayed by Konah Deno after they loaded six patients suspected to have been infected by the Ebola virus into their ambulance in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia. Ebola has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa and wreaked havoc on the region, but some Africans see a bright side: The virus has been limited to five countries. It has even been beaten back in two of those countries. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN: Ebola death toll rising to 4,500 this week

John Heilprin · October 16, 2014 11:44 pm

Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad impose Ebola travel bans

Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad impose Ebola travel bans

David McFadden · October 16, 2014 11:33 pm

Paraguayan journalist shot to death in drug hotbed

Paraguayan journalist shot to death in drug hotbed

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2014 11:32 pm

Venezuela jubilant over UN Security Council win

Hannah Dreier · October 16, 2014 11:25 pm

US official says Mideast Quartet to meet next week

US official says Mideast Quartet to meet next week

EDITH M. LEDERERMATTHEW LEE · October 16, 2014 11:21 pm

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for re-election with the Workers Party, waves to photographers during a commercial break as she attends a presidential candidate debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Rousseff will face Aecio Neves, candidate with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, in a presidential runoff on Sunday, Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil presidential contenders battle in debate

Brad Brooks · October 16, 2014 11:17 pm