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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:13:36 GMT
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Reuters - The Syrian military pounded rebel-held Sunni Muslim districts of Homs city for the 20th day on Thursday, despite international outrage over the previous day's death toll of more than 80, including two Western journalists, activists said. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:54:11 GMT
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Reuters - Thousands of people marched in Moscow under Russian flags, balloons and banners on Thursday to back Vladimir Putin's bid to return to the presidency and counter opposition protests that have challenged his authority. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:17:32 GMT
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Reuters - An Afghan soldier joined protests on Thursday against the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base and shot dead two foreign troops, western military sources said. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:59:08 GMT
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 Reuters - Simultaneous early morning attacks on mostly Shi'ite targets across Iraq killed at least 60 people and wounded dozens on Thursday in one of the bloodiest days of violence since U.S. troops pulled out in mid-December.
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:01:30 GMT
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 Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month high over fears of an increasing risk of confrontation with the West.
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:30:00 GMT
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Time.com - Tehran's rejection on Tuesday of an International Atomic Energy Agency request to visit a sensitive military site signaled grim prospects for diplomacy resolving the nuclear standoff |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:59:18 GMT
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AP - Lawyers have told Britain's High Court that singer Charlotte Church has settled her claims against the publisher of the News of the World over alleged phone hacking. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:11:27 GMT
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AP - Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate Thursday as government forces resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in the restive central city, where hundreds have died in a weekslong siege. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:10:04 GMT
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AP - The screams haunt convicted murderer Marco Antonio Bonilla, even now as Honduras hails him a hero for saving hundreds of inmates from fire raging through their prison. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:56:07 GMT
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AP - The commander of African Union troops in Somalia says that close to 300 members of the militant group al-Shabab streamed out of Somalia in the direction of Yemen in recent days, a sign the militant group is under increasing pressure. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:58:01 GMT
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 AP - The Afghan president's office says it has received a letter from President Barack Obama formally apologizing for the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:59:48 GMT
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Reuters - Air Canada's 8,600 mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents have rejected a tentative contract agreement with the country's biggest airline, a union spokesman said on Wednesday, marking another setback for the carrier during a year of rocky labor relations. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:17:46 GMT
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AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by Kevin Rudd, the colleague she ousted in a Labor Party coup nearly two years ago. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:20:40 GMT
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The Christian Science Monitor - London is considered the most spied-on city in the world, courtesy of its ubiquitous CCTV cameras, purportedly there to reduce crime. But according to a recent report, there's been little or no change in London's crime rates since they were more widely installed in the mid 1980s. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:30:00 GMT
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Time.com - In the face of continuing bloodshed in their homeland, one anti-Assad group courts the regime's allies in the Syrian business community and Moscow. Is it all in vain? |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:09:26 GMT
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The Christian Science Monitor - After four days of daily protests, some violently dispersed, Spain is bracing for a cycle of social unrest against the harshest austerity measures in decades. At stake is not only Spainâs economic recovery, but that of the European Union. |
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