Politics

CIA's response to Benghazi attack under scrutiny - 11/03/2012

WASHINGTON, Dan De Luce- Nearly two months after a deadly attack on a US consulate in Libya, a bitter row is still raging over who is to blame for the security breakdown, with the spotlight now...

Syria rebels kill 28 soldiers, video shows 'executions' - 11/01/2012

DAMASCUS- Syrian rebels killed 28 soldiers on Thursday, a watchdog said, amid a report they beat and executed some of them, as fighting raged in the country's northwestern battlefields. The troops...

Turkish village lives in fear of Syrian war - 11/01/2012

OVECCI KOYU, Turkey, Jennie Matthew- Sixteen-year-old Nazire was out in the fields, sitting under a tree when the shooting started. Bullets whizzed past her face and she was terrified. The Syrian war...

Fighters angry at cabinet besiege Libya assembly - 11/01/2012

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Nearly 100 Libyan gunmen backed by heavy weapons kept the national assembly under siege Thursday in protest at the new premier's cabinet lineup and alleged links of some...

Attacks, air strikes hit Syria as death toll mounts - 11/01/2012

DAMASCUS- Bomb attacks hit near Damascus and air strikes pounded rebel bastions on Wednesday as international divisions were again exposed over how to end an escalating conflict now said to have...

HRW condemns Tunisia sacking of dozens of judges - 10/30/2012

TUNIS- Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Tunisia's "unfair and arbitrary" dismissal of 75 judges in May was a dangerous precedent for the independence of the country's judiciary. HRW, which met...

Arab League envoy urges world powers deal on Syria - 10/29/2012

PARIS- The Arab League ambassador to France said Sunday that world powers have to agree on a "minimum accord" on Syria for there to be any chance of resolving the crisis in the conflict-hit country....

Egypt's Copts to vote for new Pope on Monday - 10/28/2012

CAIRO, Jailan Zayan- Egypt's Coptic Christians will vote for a new spiritual leader on Monday after Pope Shenuda III died in March, leaving behind a community anxious about its status under an...

Syrian truce collapses in deadly violence - 10/27/2012

DAMASCUS- Deadly car bombings and artillery fire on Friday shattered a fragile truce between the warring parties in Syria just hours after it had begun on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha...

Susan Sarandon in heaven with 'Cloud Atlas' - 10/27/2012

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- US actress Susan Sarandon says making "Cloud Atlas," adapted from the award-winning British novel, was a joyous theatrical experience in what seemed more like a "circus"...
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