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Bombings, bombardments kill across Syria

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:52:13 GMT

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighborhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar al-Assad's troops.

Asia giants join Iran diplomacy as sanctions hurt trade

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:52:15 GMT

BEIJING/HAMBURG (Reuters) - China said on Friday it would send a senior official to Tehran to discuss Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, and India indicated it would also weigh in, as Asia's two giants seek to head off new sanctions already playing havoc with trade.

Syrian officials should be sent to ICC: U.N. rights office

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:08:16 GMT

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian officials suspected of committing or ordering crimes against humanity should face prosecution in the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.

Insight: Arms and men out of Libya fortify Mali rebellion

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:30:15 GMT

DAKAR/KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi's looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in northern Mali last month overwhelmed the remote garrison.

Norway mass killer faces 24-hour psychiatric watch

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:08:19 GMT

OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-immigration militant who killed 77 people in a Norwegian bomb-and-gun massacre last July, is to undergo psychiatric observation 24 hours a day for up to four weeks as he prepares for his April criminal trial.

Egyptians protest against a year of army rule

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:52:14 GMT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians marched to the Defense Ministry Friday to press demands for the generals to hand over power, a day before a strike called by activists to mark the first anniversary of President Hosni Mubarak's fall.

Saadi Gaddafi warns of uprising in Libya: TV

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:15 GMT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi warned on Friday of an "imminent uprising" in Libya, saying he was in regular contact with people in the country who were unhappy with the authorities put in place after the ousting and killing of his father.

Maldives ex-president demands election, warns of protests

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:15 GMT

MALE (Reuters) - The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, demanded on Friday fresh elections and said he would organise street protests in the Indian Ocean archipelago best known as a luxury beach getaway if polls were not called.

Germany jails Kosovan for life for killing U.S. airmen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:52:12 GMT

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Kosovo-Albanian man who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport last March was sentenced to life in prison by German court on Friday.

Libya fighters-turned-jailors face heat over prisons

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:08:19 GMT

GUWASIM, Libya (Reuters) - The revolutionary fighters-turned-jailors who run what passes for a justice system in Libya's Gharyan region say they are making the best of a bad business.

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