Tag: World

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, right, wait for the start of closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Iran and six world powers are hoping to narrow differences at a new round of nuclear talks, less than three months before an informal July deadline for a deal. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Iran, 6 powers seek to narrow nuclear differences

George Jahn · April 8, 2014 10:11 am

Egypt women: Rights on paper, not yet on ground

Laura Dean · April 8, 2014 9:29 am

Ukraine feels nervous as big powers debate fate

National Security

Ukraine feels nervous as big powers debate fate

Maria Danilova · April 8, 2014 9:19 am

Visitors try out Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Note 3 at its showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Declining smartphone prices hit profit at Samsung for a second straight quarter. The consumer technology heavyweight said Tuesday that it expects operating income of about 8.4 trillion won ($8 billion) for the January-March quarter, down 4 percent from a year earlier. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Samsung’s profit falls as smartphones get cheaper

Youkyung Lee · April 8, 2014 7:58 am

Electrical device helps paralyzed men move legs

Maria Cheng · April 8, 2014 7:53 am

People gathered in front of a barricade at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. A Ukrainian news agency is reporting that pro-Russian separatists who have seized the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed the region an independent republic. The activists on Monday also called for a referendum on the sovereignty of the Donetsk region, which borders Russia, to be held no later than May 11, the Interfax news agency reported. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

National Security

Pro-Russians call east Ukraine region independent

Peter Leonard · April 8, 2014 2:43 am

20 die as criminals clash in Mexico border state

20 die as criminals clash in Mexico border state

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 2:36 am

Indian voters wait in queues to cast their votes during the first phase of elections in Dibrugarh, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, Monday, April 7, 2014. Indians began voting Monday in the world's biggest election, with the opposition heading into the polls with strong momentum on promises of economic renewal. The country's 814 million eligible voters will vote in stages over the next five weeks. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India starts voting in world’s largest election

Wasbir Hussain · April 8, 2014 1:39 am

In this photo taken on March 28, 2014 and released by a neutral activist youth group, About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Dutch Father Francis Van Der Lugt, 72, in Homs, Syria. A masked gunman opened fire on Van Der Lugt, a well-known elderly Dutch priest, in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest and an activist group said. (AP Photo/About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply)

Gunman kills Dutch priest in Syrian city of Homs

Albert Aji · April 8, 2014 1:21 am

Anti-independence Liberals win Quebec legislative elections, will form majority government

Anti-independence Liberals win Quebec legislative elections, will form majority government

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 1:03 am

Ya Ru Zheng holds a photo of her daughter Qian Liu outside a courthouse in Toronto, on Monday, April 7, 2014. A jury has found 32-year-old Brian Dickson guilty of first-degree murder in the death of York University student Liu, from China. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Allison Jones)

Canadian convicted of murder seen through webcam

Rob Gillies · April 8, 2014 12:42 am

The chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston shows a map to the media during a press conference about the on going search operations for wreckage and debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Monday, April 7, 2014. Houston reported the towed pinger locator deployed from the Ocean Shield has detected two signals consistent with those emitted by an in flight back box recorder, in the northern part of the current search area in the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

‘Promising lead’ emerges in hunt for Flight 370

Nick Perry · April 8, 2014 12:39 am