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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:17:28 GMT
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 Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:26:11 GMT
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Reuters - American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:24:12 GMT
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Reuters - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader should be freed and tried instead in a civilian court. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:19:34 GMT
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 Reuters - Ethiopian and Somali troops captured a key Islamist militant stronghold in Somalia on Wednesday, as the rebels left their positions, a regional government official and residents said.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:58:39 GMT
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Reuters - PARIS (Reuters)- After months of reassuring secularist critics, Islamist politicians in Tunisia and Egypt have begun to lay down markers about how Muslim their states should be -- and first signs show they want more religion than previously admitted. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:55:00 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 17:37:46 GMT
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AP - Lithuania's government has released the names of 238 citizens who admitted collaborating with the KGB when their country was ruled by the Soviet Union, and said Wednesday it plans to identify other people who have refused to disclose their work with the security agency. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:31:36 GMT
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AP - Sen. John McCain has urged Libya's militias to integrate themselves into the country's new national army. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:11:02 GMT
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AP - A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:12:38 GMT
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 AP - Residents say Ethiopian troops and Somali soldiers have seized a key town in south central Somalia.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:29:48 GMT
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 AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after clashes in several cities between Afghan security forces and protesters furious over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left seven people dead.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:50:03 GMT
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Reuters - Rogers Communications, Canada's biggest wireless telecoms company, said on Wednesday that cost-cutting and growth in its cable and media businesses pushed it to a stronger than expected quarterly profit despite lagging core wireless results. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:34:28 GMT
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AP - Australia's foreign minister resigned Wednesday in a bitter rift with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who may poll party lawmakers next week on who should lead the country. |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:44:12 GMT
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The Christian Science Monitor - With an Islamist militant group on a killing spree in its northern reaches, Nigeria would appear to be just the kind of country that the US military’s Africom was designed to help out. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:55:00 GMT
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Time.com - A celebrated American-born war reporter and a young French photographer were killed on Wednesday morning when Syrian forces bombed a makeshift media center in the besieged city of Homs |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:04:43 GMT
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The Christian Science Monitor - Khaled, a young fighter with the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), keeps a tight grip on his cellphone these days. The serious-looking 20-something with slicked back dark hair and a thin trace of a beard is awaiting a call that will take him from the relative comfort of a safe house in north Lebanon across a border laced with land mines and patrolled by Syrian troops to the dangers and rigors of combat inside Syria. |
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