World NewsIraqis rally to cheer end of US forces
Bangkok News.Net
Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.
The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to ...
Washington police close camp near President
Bangkok News.Net
Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.
The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few ...
Putin shows he has his own cheer squad
Bangkok News.Net
A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Around 140,000 people attended a rally on Saturday in which placards were raised announcing Putin as a man ...
Suspected drug lord in Mexican police custody
Bangkok News.Net
Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.
Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused ...
Mitt Romney way ahead of Gingrich in Nevada primary
Bangkok News.Net
Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in ...
U.S. Army orders Bradley Manning to face cout martial
Bangkok News.Net
A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Private First Class Bradley Manning, 24, has been in prison since his arrest one-and-a-half ...
Syrian rebels kill nine soldiers in Idlib province
Jerusalem Post
Nine Syrian soldiers were killed and several others wounded in clashes Saturday overnight with opposition militias in the country's northwestern region, London-based Syrian Observatory for ...
Amir Eshel to be next IAF commander
Jerusalem Post
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz announced Sunday that Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel will serve as the next commander of the Israel Air Force. The appointment was approved by Defense Minister Ehud ...
Cabinet approves Red-Med rail link
Jerusalem Post
The cabinet on Sunday approved construction of a Red-Med train link between Eilat and Tel Aviv to both dramatically reduce travel time between the cities and create an Asian-European cargo link as ...
Wide-eyed Saturday into Super Sunday Shacharis
Jerusalem Post
INDIANAPOLIS - The circus is in town. And with his three-ring legacy already on-hand, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been there, done that. This time, he's making sure to enjoy the ...
Mob ransacks Syrian embassy in Oz
IOL
Canberra, Australia - A mob ransacked the Syrian Embassy in Australia after reports of the bloodiest episode yet in Syria's nearly yearlong crackdown on dissent, officials said Sunday. The ...
Rising floodwaters force mass evacuation
IOL
Police ordered the 3,800 residents of the town of St George, in northern Queensland state, to evacuate as rising floodwaters raced towards record heights, threatening to cut the one remaining exit ...
Deadly car bombing in Kandahar
C News
U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces secure an area near a car bomb blast attack in the city of Kandahar Feb. 5, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem KABUL - A car bomb in the south Afghan city of ...
Anger after Russia, China block UN action on Syria
C News
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice speaks during the U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to ...
Fire at Russian nuclear institute
C News
MOSCOW - A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research centre that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, an emergency official said, and Russia’s nuclear agency said ...
Euro zone insists no Greek rescue without reforms
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers told Greece it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately held debt until it guaranteed to implement reforms to secure a second ...
Egypt sends American workers to trial
USA Today
The decision on Sunday by investigating judges is likely to further sour relations between Egypt's military rulers and the United States, the Arab nation's chief western backer for more than 30 ...
Seeking an end to hazing deaths
CBS News
(CBS News) HAZING is on no college or university's official curriculum. Yet hazing does occur with regularity on a number of campuses, and when things go wrong, it ends up in tragedy - and ...
CBS News: Romney wins Nevada
CBS News
(Credit: AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) Updated Sat. Feb. 5, 7:11 a.m. ET With the doors closed at caucus precincts across Nevada, CBS News projects that Mitt Romney has won the Nevada Republican ...
Clinton calls for united front against Assad
CBS News
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, right gestures next to the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as they along other Bulgarian officials enter the news-conference hall in Sofia, ...
US anger at Syria veto 'travesty'
BBC
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described as a "travesty" Russia and China's veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria's crackdown against anti-government protesters. ...
Arab League to pursue Syria efforts
Al Jazeera
Arab states will not stop their efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis even though their bid to secure UN backing was blocked by Russia and China, the Arab League's secretary-general has said. ...
Greece debt talks on 'knife-edge'
Al Jazeera
Greece's prime minister is pressing his political allies to support a rescue package in order to avoid a government default, after his finance minister warned that just hours remain to secure a ...
Palestinian factions discuss elections
Al Jazeera
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agreed at a meeting in the Qatari capital that presidential and legislative elections must be held "quickly", a Fatah official said. Palestinian ...
Opinion: Syria in for bloody stalemate
CNN
>Editor's note: Randa Slim is a research fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank that looks for innovative solutions along the ideological spectrum, and a scholar at the Middle East ...
Single in the Caribbean Sun
International Herald Tribune
GRATEFUL for rain on a Caribbean vacation? You bet I was. And you might have been, too, had you just escaped from a mob of bronzed bodies dancing under the stars in whipped-up, blissed-out unison to ...
Cold Weather, Snow Paralyze Much Of Europe
RadioFreeEurope
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If ...
Iran vows to hit any country that stages attack
USA Today
Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's most powerful military force, didn't elaborate. His comments appeared to be a warning to Iran's neighbors not to let their ...
PA's Abbas, Hamas's Mashaal meet in Qatar
Jerusalem Post
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani and Hamas Political Bureau head Khaled Mashaal in Doha Sunday. The three, along with the Qatari ...
Police claim 'smoking gun' in babies’ abuse probe
Jerusalem Post
Police said Sunday that new and damning evidence had been obtained against the parents suspected of abusing their four month old twins.The statement was made by a police representative to the Tel ...
S. Africa’s last Jewish newspaper makes last stand
Jerusalem Post
Jewish Report is delivered to synagogues across South Africa an unusual routine occurs.Instead of allowing members of the community to pick up copies of the country's only Jewish newspaper ...
Father throws toddler off bridge
IOL
An Italian man threw his 16-month-old son off a bridge into the river in Rome in a fit of rage following a row with his partner over custody, Italian media ...
UN team to diffuse Maldives crisis
IOL
The United Nations is sending a delegation to the Maldives for talks after the government asked for international help to end a crippling stand off with the judiciary, the UN said ...
Syrian protestors target embassies
IOL
Dozens of Syrian protesters were arrested Saturday after storming their country's embassies in cities in Europe and the Middle East, smashing windows and setting fire in one ...
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