Tag: World

FILE - In this June 14, 2013 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, right, meets with Venezuela's Archbishop Diego Rafael Padron Sanchez, left and Italian Pietro Parolin, Holy See's representative in Venezuela, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Padron, speaking in Caracas on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, accused Maduro of attempting to criminalize dissent. Venezuela's organization of Catholic bishops is accusing the government of seeking totalitarian-style rule, comments that potentially could complicate the Vatican's offer to facilitate talks between the socialist government and its opposition. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Bishops say Venezuela seeks totalitarian rule

Washington Examiner · April 2, 2014 9:19 pm

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Pope Francis has hailed Pope John Paul II's legacy to Catholic faithful on the 9th anniversary of the Polish-born pontiff's death. A crowd of tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims, including some from Poland, applauded when Francis recalled during his weekly Wednesday public audience in St. Peter's Square that John Paul died on April 2, 2005, and will soon be made a saint. Francis will lead the sainthood ceremony on April 27 in the square for both John Paul and Pope John XXIII. Francis urged the faithful to prepare for the event by "rekindling the legacy of faith that John Paul left behind." He added that the long-ailing John Paul, who led the church from 1978 until 2005, "even accomplished good with his suffering." (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Francis recalls John Paul II’s death 9 years ago

Washington Examiner · April 2, 2014 9:19 pm

Far-right sets sights on European Parliament

Elaine Ganley · April 2, 2014 8:55 pm

Women hold portraits of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails during a rally calling for their release in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Arabic on the posters read, "Dean of prisoners, Karim Younis, 21 years in prison." (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

National Security

Imprisoned spy may be key for Kerry on peace talks

Josef Federman · April 2, 2014 8:40 pm

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Yanukovych says the annexation of Crimea was a tragedy and he would have done everything possible to prevent it, had he remained in power. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

National Security

AP Interview: Yanukovych admits mistakes on Crimea

CARO KRIELVLADIMIR ISACHENKOV · April 2, 2014 8:30 pm

Iranians avoid bad luck with outdoor festival

Nasser Karimi · April 2, 2014 8:02 pm

Plainclothes Egyptian security forces detain people at the scene of deadly explosions that hit the area outside the main campus of Cairo University, in Giza, Egypt, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Three bombs exploded Wednesday, hitting riot police deployed against near daily protests by Islamist students amid a fierce crackdown by security forces against protesters and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

Egypt: Bombings bring escalation in campus wars

hamza-hendawisarah, El Deeb · April 2, 2014 7:55 pm

Afghan policemen arrive after a suicide bomber wearing a military uniform struck the entrance gate of the Interior Ministry compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the bomber, who was wearing a military uniform to evade security checks, reached the entrance of the heavily fortified ministry compound before detonating his explosives. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Bomb kills 6 at well-guarded area in Afghanistan

AMIR SHAHKIM GAMEL · April 2, 2014 7:48 pm

A look at the power of the number 13 in the world

Thomas Adamson · April 2, 2014 7:47 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2011 file photo, candidates for the 2011 French Socialist party primary elections Francois Hollande, left, shakes hands with Segolene Royal, right, while Manuel Valls, center back, looks on before a televised debate in Paris. Royal, French President Francois Hollande's former partner, has been named Wednesday April, 2, 2014 as Minister of Environment and Energy. Valls is now Prime Minister. (AP Photo/Patrick Kovarik, Pool-File)

Hollande’s ex-partner named to new French cabinet

GREG KELLERSYLVIE CORBET · April 2, 2014 7:43 pm

Israel’s foreign ministry ends strike

Israel’s foreign ministry ends strike

Washington Examiner · April 2, 2014 7:12 pm

Lebanese army soldiers deploy in the streets of the Sunni neighborhood of Bab Tabbaneh and the neighboring Jabal Mohsen, which is mostly populated by followers of the Alawite sect, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday April, 2, 2014. In a rare day of exuberant emotion, weary residents of two warring neighborhoods greeted each other with tears and cheers as hundreds of Lebanese soldiers deployed for the first time in years throughout the area, quelling violence between them that has killed at least 200 people in three years. The Lebanese army deployment in the northern city of Tripoli is the most determined plan yet by the government to bring peace to an area that was teetering into the neighboring Syrian civil war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese foes celebrate together as army deploys

Diaa Hadid · April 2, 2014 7:10 pm