Should some Missile Strikes be Criminalized?
WorldNews.com
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Smoke pours out of the civilian shelter for days while rescue workers collapse in grief excavating the remains, pitching their dead cargo to the ground. Some vomit from the stench of the sizzling corpses, nearly all women children, and babies, burned...
Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty in India Rape Case
The New York Times
The New York Times
Prosecutors on Wednesday asked for a “death sentence” for four men who participated in the rape and murder of a 23-year-old student last December, a goal long sought by the victim’s family and many Indians who were horrified by the case, Ellen Barry wrote in The New York Times. “There...
Philippine rebels call for foreign mediation
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Rebel fighters holding scores of hostages in the southern Philippines have demanded international mediation, an official said. The rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the government, are holding the civilian hostages as human shields near the port city of Zamboanga. Troops have surrounded...
Syria crisis: Obama vows to keep pressure on Assad
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Share Twitter Ghana News Share View Comments US President Barack Obama: "I have a deeply held preference for peaceful solutions"President Obama says he will pursue diplomatic efforts to remove Syria's chemical weapons but has ordered the US military to "be in a position to respond" if such...
The President Speaks on Syria
The New York Times
The New York Times
Three observations about President Obama’s prime-time remarks explaining his Syria strategy. 1) This speech should not have been given. The diplomatic situation is completely fluid, and the administration has had only had 24 hours to process the possibility that Russia might — might — be...
Koreas: Kaesong Industrial Complex To Reopen
Orange News
Orange News
11 September 2013, 1:49 Koreas: Kaesong Industrial Complex To Reopen Tweet North and South Korea have agreed to reopen an industrial park after it was closed by Pyongyang in April amid military tensions. The South's Unification Ministry said the Kaesong complex, which lies six miles (10km) over the...
Dobbins doubts complete Afghan withdrawal by 2014
Dawn
Dawn
WASHINGTON: A US envoy on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that Washington would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan after next year, saying that both countries wanted to preserve a smaller force. Aides to US President Barack Obama earlier this year openly mulled the so-called “zero option” of a...
Setback for EU financial-transaction tax plan
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
A plan to tax financial transactions in 11 European Union member states from 2014 is illegal, the bloc's lawyers have concluded, in what could be a final blow to the measure as proposed. The opinion is not binding, and Germany - which...
Syria crisis: France to table UN resolution
BBC News
BBC News
10 September 2013 Last updated at 10:54 BST France will table a resolution to the UN Security Council calling on Syria to "shed all light" on its chemical weapons programme, the French Foreign Minister has said. Speaking in Paris, Laurent Fabius said the decision to "take the initiative" was made...
Kenya's deputy president pleads not guilty before international court
Swissinfo
Swissinfo
Reuters September 10, 2013 - 10:30 By Thomas Escritt and James Macharia THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto pleaded innocent to crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, at the start of a trial that will test the stability...
A Diplomatic Proposal for Syria
The New York Times
The New York Times
Secretary of State John Kerry may not have expected his casual suggestion that Syria avert American military action by giving up its chemical weapons to be taken seriously. But it may have created a diplomatic way out for President Obama, who has insisted that a military strike is the only way to...
Norway Elects a Conservative as Its Premier
The New York Times
The New York Times
LONDON — A little more than two years after a far-right, anti-immigrant militant killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, Norwegian voters ousted their center-left government on Monday, paving the way for the conservative leader, Erna Solberg, to assemble a governing coalition that may include an...
Syria civil war: Russia demands United Nations report on risk of nuclear ‘catastrophe’
The Independent
The Independent
Official: 60 Dead in C. African Republic Clashes
The New York Times
The New York Times
BANGUI, Central African Republic — A government spokesman in Central African Republic says 60 people were killed during weekend attacks involving fighters believed to be loyal to former President Francois Bozize, who was ousted in a coup in March. Guy Simplice Kodegue said Monday the fighting took...
