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Syria jets kill tens as international envoy visits

kiemtarDec 25, 2012December 26, 20120

BEIRUT (AP) — A government airstrike Sunday on a bakery in a rebel-held town in central Syria killed more than 60 people, activists said, casting

India clamps down on gang-rape protests, PM appeals for calm

YoopyaDec 24, 20120

(Reuters) – Indian authorities throttled movement in the heart of the capital on Monday, shutting roads and railway stations in a bid to restore law

Navy SEAL commander dead in Afghanistan in suspected suicide

YoopyaDec 24, 20120

(Reuters) – The commander of an elite U.S. Navy SEAL unit has died inAfghanistan, the Defense Department said on Sunday, and a U.S. military official

Iran defense minister says NATO missiles harm Turkey security

YoopyaDec 22, 20120

(Reuters) – The installation of Patriot anti-missile batteries sent by NATO members to bolster Turkey’s defenses against a possible missile attack from Syria will only harm Turkey’s

Syrian rebels fight for strategic town in Hama province

YoopyaDec 21, 20120

(Reuters) – Rebels began to push into a strategic town in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday and laid siege to at least one town

Fifth arrest in Delhi bus gang rape

YoopyaDec 21, 20120

Police in the Indian capital say they have arrested a fifth person in connection with the gang rape on a bus of a young woman

Business as usual for South Korea’s chaebol under Park

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – A Park will be back in South Korea’s presidential mansion come February, and the big businesses, or chaebol, that dominate the country’s economy will be