News 02/22/2012
Unconfirmed reports from Syria say two Western journalists - an American and a French national - have been killed in the central city of Homs ... Afghan President Hamid Karzai urges Afghans "not to resort to violence" after protests over the burning of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul ... Heavily armed Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants in south-west Somalia ... Hundreds of people are reported to have been injured in a commuter train crash at a busy station in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires ... All the key points, analysis and reaction as David Cameron faces his weekly Commons grilling from MPs ... (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a shooting at a health spa in an Atlanta suburb on Tuesday in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said ... AUCKLAND (Reuters) - U.S. crime-fighters failed in a bid to keep alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom behind bars on Wednesday when a New Zealand court freed him from jail and instead put him under ... Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring ... Americans in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray ... A senior administration official says that the Treasury Department plans to release information about its forthcoming plan to overhaul the corporate tax system on Wednesday ... |