BEIRUT – Syrian forces killed 13 people yesterday during widespread protests against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said, a day after Syria’s big power ally Russia sharpened its criticism of Damascus in a draft United Nations resolution.
Tunis, (Reuters) – Tunisia’s new president announced yesterday he would sell off most of the presidential palaces built by the country’s ousted dictator and use the cash to fund new jobs, a gesture aimed at soothing anger over high unemployment.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The methodical dissection in courtrooms across London this week of events at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid has finally destroyed the company’s long-held defence about phone-hacking and left son James more isolated than ever.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grammy-winning R&B singer Etta James is terminally ill, her live-in physician said in an interview this week that confirmed reports of the singer’s fading health.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday it was investigating allegations of assault and attempted homicide by peacekeepers in Haiti, the latest charges of misconduct to be leveled against the blue-helmeted force.
ST. JOHNS, Antigua, (Reuters) – Two men convicted of killing a Welsh couple honeymooning on the Caribbean island of Antigua were sentenced yesterday to three consecutive life sentences in prison.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – U.S. forces formally ended almost nine years of war in Iraq yesterday with a modest flag-lowering ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian strains threatening the country in years ahead.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Russia offered the U.N. Security Council a new, stronger draft resolution on the violence in Syria, lifting Western hopes of U.N.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Homosexuals and transgender people in all regions face discrimination and violence, including killings, rape and torture because of their orientation, and risk the death penalty in at least five countries, the United Nations said yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – A French court sentenced flamboyant Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal to another life prison term yesterday for bomb attacks that killed 11 people nearly three decades ago.
PARIS, (Reuters) – A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country’s first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain in 1945.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors sued Chevron Corp, the No.
CAIRO – Rival Islamist groups sought more gains in the second round of Egypt’s parliamentary election yesterday, with liberals also fighting for a voice in an army-led transition that began with the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will extradite one of the region’s most-wanted drug traffickers to the United States today, a Venezuelan government source said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Desperate British students, faced with rising costs on the back of government austerity measures, are turning to prostitution, gambling and other dangerous pursuits to fund their studies, support workers and student leaders said today.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Buried deep in American Airlines’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is a striking asset — a town house in one of London’s most expensive residential streets that property experts say could be worth up to $30 million.
LIEGE, Belgium, (Reuters) – A lone gunman brought carnage to the Belgian city of Liege yesterday, spraying bullets at Christmas shoppers and hurling a grenade at people waiting for a bus, killing four people including a girl of 17 months before shooting himself dead.
AMMAN – Security forces shot dead 17 people in Syria yesterday and rebels killed seven police in an ambush, activists said, after the U.N.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – International scientists said on Tuesday they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.
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