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Assad forces renew barrage on Syria's Homs (Reuters)

2/22/2012 6:01 PM

Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists...Read More

Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail (Reuters)

2/22/2012 2:25 PM

2/22/2012 3:55 PM

Reuters - U.S. and European officials are downplaying allegations that Iran and al Qaeda have recently stepped up cooperation in preparation for possible attacks on U.S. and other Western targets...Read More

Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests (Reuters)

2/22/2012 4:40 PM

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...Read More

Putin praises Cold War moles for stealing U.S. nuclear secrets (Reuters)

2/22/2012 3:55 PM

Reuters - Vladimir Putin praised Cold War-era scientists on Thursday for stealing U.S. nuclear secrets so that United States would not be the world's sole atomic power, in comments reflecting his vision of Russia as a counterweight to U.S. power...Read More

Grasping at Straws: The Syrian Opposition Appeals to Russia (Time.com)

2/22/2012 2:15 PM

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...Read More

Swedish palace: crown princess about to give birth (AP)

2/22/2012 7:13 PM

AP - The Swedish Royal Court says Crown Princess Victoria has been admitted to a hospital for the birth of her first child, who would be a future heir to the throne...Read More

Shelling kills 2 Western journalists in Syria (AP)

2/22/2012 7:13 PM

AP - Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a French photojournalist — two of 74 deaths reported Wednesday in Syria...Read More

Argentine train slams into station, killing 49 (AP)

2/22/2012 6:49 PM

AP - The first two cars were packed as usual for the morning rush, so tightly that people stood pressed flesh to flesh, sandwiched between bicycles and the few seats, many without so much as a strap to hold onto...Read More

NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case (AP)

2/22/2012 3:53 PM

AP - The trial of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide is expected to transport jurors back almost 18 years to a roadblock outside a family owned hotel in Butare where prosecutors say the defendant decided who would live and who would die...Read More