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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:27:07 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 17:07:23 GMT
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 Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:05:53 GMT
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 Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's passionate supporters.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:11:37 GMT
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Reuters - The verdict in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with ordering the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power, will be delivered on June 2, the judge said on Wednesday. |
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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 18:24:42 GMT
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AP - A list of those dead or missing in the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia off Italy. Italian officials released a list of the missing. Those not listed as crew are passengers. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:20:43 GMT
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 AP - Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew a rebuke from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise new tensions with the U.S. as the prime minister prepares to head to the White House.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:23:33 GMT
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 AP - President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:34:29 GMT
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AP - A British man has been sentenced to probation for helping a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary steer massive bribes to Nigerian officials to win more than $6 billion in construction contracts. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:55:48 GMT
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AP - A spokesman for the international military force in Afghanistan says findings from an investigation into the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO base may come out as early as Wednesday. |
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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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