Defence minister says Japan could shoot down rocket if it enters its airspace, as China voices concern over launch plan. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/2012320131315833482.html
Schools hold minute’s silence for four people shot dead at Jewish school in Toulouse, as police step up hunt for gunman. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/2012320132221812616.html
The streets of Kabul have been thronged with people enjoying the festivities marking Norouz, the traditional New Year. But for thousands of poor Afghan families the day is a vivid reminder of the difficulties they continue to face. RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan followed one poor family in Kabul as they…
US campaign group Human Rights Watch says elements of Syria’s opposition have carried out serious human rights abuses, including kidnapping, torture and execution. from (author unknown) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-17445148
St Mark’s Cathedral in central Cairo packed for ceremony after Coptic Christian leader’s death on Saturday, aged 88 Tearful and wearing black, tens of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians joined a funeral mass for their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, led by senior clerics at the main cathedral in Cairo. St…
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales remembers little about the night he is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nightti… Read more: Video, Robert Bales, John-Henry-Browne, John-Henry-Browne-Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Robert Bales Afghanistan, Afghanistan-Robert-Bales, Afghanistan Shooting Massacre, Afghanistan Shooting, World News from The Huffington Post News Team…
A Pakistani parliamentary commission has called for an end to U.S. drone-missile strikes targeting Islamist militants inside Pakistan. from RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal via http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan_commission_drone_strikes_apology/24521673.html
Iraqi soldiers and rescue workers guard the site of an explosion in Kirkuk, Iraq. The blast near a police station killed seven people and wounded 30. It was one of several car and roadside bomb attacks in Iraq. The surge in violence comes a week before an Arab League conference…
UK-born Asma al-Assad, who apparently shopped for luxury goods during the brutal Syrian crackdown, to be added to official sanctions list Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of Syria’s president whose luxury shopping sprees during the regime’s brutal crackdown on internal dissent were revealed by the Guardian last week, is set…
As political pressure grows in the United States for a more rapid drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, a key question is how soon the Afghan National Army will be ready to defend the country by itself. from Charles Recknagel via http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan_national_army_readiness/24516283.html