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- Why won't the U.N. intervene in Syria?
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 04:14 PM -0800
The U.N. Security Council intervened last year to stop the violence in Libya. But it has come nowhere close to that on Syria, where the U.N. estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed since...[more]
- Why won't U.N. intervene in Syria?
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 04:14 PM -0800
The U.N. Security Council intervened last year to stop the violence in Libya. But it has come nowhere close to that on Syria. Why?
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- Myanmar frees more political prisoners, U.S. lauds move
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 04:01 PM -0800
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar freed at least 200 political prisoners on Friday in an amnesty that prompted the United States to upgrade diplomatic relations as one of the world's most reclusive states...[more]
- Syrian tanks attack town amid civil war warning
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 03:48 PM -0800
AMMAN (Reuters) - Unrest in Syria cost at least 15 lives Friday and troops backed by tanks attacked Zabadani, a town near the border with Lebanon, an opposition leader said, in the first big...[more]
- US: Encounter with Iran ship not hostile
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 03:05 PM -0800
Last week's close encounter between U.S. ships and Iranian speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz was considered "routine" and a "very common occurence" especially for ships transiting the strait,...[more]
- Wife: Oxford professor’s death an accident, not murder
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 02:26 PM -0800
The wife of a world-renowned Oxford University astrophysicist says his mysterious death at the home of a fellow academic was a “tragic accident,” not murder.[more]
- S&P cuts France’s rating; more cuts seen
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 01:09 PM -0800
Standard & Poor’s cut France’s credit rating Friday, the nation’s finance minister said. The move is part of an expected downgrade for several euro zone countries.[more]
- Marines inch toward charges over desecration video
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 01:01 PM -0800
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Marine Corps took a first, formal step on Friday toward possible charges against four troops who, in a video widely circulated on television and the Internet, appear to...[more]
- Two Marines in urination video interviewed
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 12:59 PM -0800
Military officials have interviewed two of four Marines in a video which shows them urinating on dead bodies sprawled out on the ground, a Marine Corps official told CNN Friday.
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- Iran clerics urge unity as nuclear scientist buried
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 12:39 PM -0800
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Tehran funeral on Friday of a nuclear scientist blown up by a hitman saw the ruling clergy urge Iranians to rally behind it at a forthcoming election and face down Western...[more]
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