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Monitors head to Syrian opposition stronghold
Cairo (CNN) — A fact-finding team is expected to travel Thursday to the Syrian opposition stronghold of Daraa where it will monitor an Arab League initiative that calls for President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces to end a violent crackdown on anti-government groups. The trip follows mounting criticism from opposition groups over the selection of a [...]
Turkey airstrike kills 31 Kurd villagers
(CNN) — An airstrike in southeast Turkey killed at least 31 Kurdish villagers crossing into the country from Iraq on Wednesday night, a local official from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party said. “A group of villagers were coming from northern Iraq across the border after 9.30 p.m. Their path was blocked by soldiers and [...]
Kim Jong Un named ‘supreme leader’
Kim Jong-il’s son and successor was declared “supreme leader” of North Korea’s ruling party, military and the people during a memorial today for his father in the first public endorsement of his leadership by the government. Kim Jong-un, head bowed and sombre in a dark overcoat, stood watching from a balcony at the Grand People’s [...]
Bahrain ‘to adopt’ new torture policy
(CNN) — Bahrain is adopting a zero tolerance policy toward “torture, inhuman treatment and degrading detention” practices toward political prisoners — one of a number of recommendations made by an independent commission looking into claims of abuse during a crackdown on protesters earlier this year. The government announced the policy in a statement released by [...]
Myanmar: Blast in Yangon kills 20
(Reuters) – At least 17 people died and 80 were injured in an early morning explosion at an industrial district on Thursday in an eastern suburb of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, police said. Earlier, witnesses had spoken of about 50 dead bodies after the 2 a.m. (1930 GMT Wednesday) blast in an industrial district of [...]
Arab League monitor sees tiny ‘martyr’
The Arab League began its one-month mission to Syria on Tuesday, Dec. 27, with a small contingent of monitors visiting the stubbornly defiant, besieged city of Homs, and one thing is already clear: it’s going to be a long month. There were reports from activists earlier in the day that security forces had withdrawn about [...]
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