Tag: World

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to a Palestinian woman in Gaza Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. During the visit to Gaza Strip the U.N. chief said the destruction he saw in Gaza was "much more serious" than what he witnessed in the Palestinian territory in 2009, following a previous Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Yasser Qudih)

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UN chief in Gaza as reconstruction efforts begin

RASHID RASHEEDDANIEL ESTRIN · October 14, 2014 5:58 pm

In this Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 photo, Dario Guerrero, center, poses for a portrait with his grandparents Dario Guerrero Garrido and Crescencia Garcia Vazquez at their home in the outskirts of Mexico City. Guerrero, a Harvard University junior, accompanied his dying mother to Mexico without government permission, and is now unable to return to the United States. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Harvard junior took dying mom to Mexico, now stuck

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZPETER ORSI · October 14, 2014 5:36 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 file photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter walks through a street in Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. The chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring has led to the rise of powerful militias -- including many Islamic extremist groups -- across a Middle East where many central governments have been exposed as weak. Some of the groups are allied with such governments, others are fighting to topple them and some -- like the Kurdish peshmerga in northern Iraq -- are seen as vital Western allies. All could prove to be major obstacles to bringing peace or stability to the troubled region. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo, FIle)

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Militias rule the day in strife-torn Middle East

Joseph Krauss · October 14, 2014 5:35 pm

Mourners chant slogans during the funeral of four female Kurdish fighters, killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, at a cemetery in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Report: Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebel targets

SUZAN FRASERDESMOND BUTLER · October 14, 2014 5:01 pm

Islamic extremist flees Germany despite ankle tag

Islamic extremist flees Germany despite ankle tag

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 4:21 pm

Oscar Pistorius rubs his eyes as he sits in court as the sentencing process entered a second day, Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday Oct. 14, 2014. Pistorius was being portrayed as a "poor victim" ahead of his sentencing for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, Pool)

Prosecutor: Pistorius offered cash after killing

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAGERALD IMRAY · October 14, 2014 4:19 pm

Health workers wearing protective gear wait to carry the body of a person suspected to have died from Ebola, in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday Oct. 13, 2014. Some nurses in Liberia defied calls for a strike on Monday and turned up for work at hospitals amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. In view of the danger of their work, members of the National Health Workers Association are demanding higher monthly hazard pay. The association has more than 10,000 members, though the health ministry says only about 1,000 of those are employed at sites receiving Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: 10,000 new Ebola cases per week could be seen

Maria Cheng · October 14, 2014 3:54 pm

Iraq officials: Shiite lawmaker Ahmed al-Khafaji among 23 killed in Baghdad checkpoint bombing

Iraq officials: Shiite lawmaker Ahmed al-Khafaji among 23 killed in Baghdad checkpoint bombing

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 3:39 pm

Algerian police march to protest leadership

Algerian police march to protest leadership

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 3:14 pm

Police clash with demonstrators outside parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, as deputies repeatedly voted down proposals to officially recognize a contentious WWII-era partisan group as national heroes. Thousands of Svoboda nationalist party supporters rallied in Kiev earlier in the day in celebration of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, but officials from the party denied vehemently that its members were involved in the unrest.(AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Clashes erupt outside Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev

Peter Leonard · October 14, 2014 3:06 pm

FILE - In this Monday, July 14, 2014 file photo, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, foreground left, holds a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, background right, on the second day of talks, in Vienna, Austria. With differences still unresolved and a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal nearing, Iran and the United States have a choice to make: Extend nuclear talks for the second time or face the risk of renewed confrontation and armed conflict. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool-File)

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Analysis: Iran nuclear talks extension possible

George Jahn · October 14, 2014 3:02 pm

Hong Kong protests see weird, wonderful scenes

Sylvia Hui · October 14, 2014 2:36 pm