China seeks "peaceful" resolution in Syria
With visit to Damascus by Vice Foreign Minister, China says it will play "constructive role in mediation"
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Nepali cops: Dad crushed 3 daughters with stones
Girls aged 7, 10, 13 allegedly attacked with stones as they slept in remote mountain village
LaHood: U.S. working to resolve Egypt NGO trial
Says top officials in gov't, including Obama, Panetta, Clinton are working to resolve impending criminal trial of son, other NGO workers
Thai cops: Iran suspects cavorted with prostitutes
Police say suspects in botched bomb plot against Israeli diplomats hung out with several female sex workers
Prison fire exposes chaos in Honduras
Deadliest prison blaze in a century has exposed just how deep government dysfunction and confusion go in Honduras
Misery among heroin addicts in Afghanistan
Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin
Nigeria: Gunmen free 119 from prison; 1 dead
Attackers storm a federal prison in Nigeria, pointing to the nation's rising instability
U.N. General Assembly condemns Syria
World body approved a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for Syria's president to resign
Mubarak holdover blamed by NGOs for crackdown
Egypt's International Cooperation Minister has for years blamed U.S. non-profits for dissent in her country
Woman behind Egypt's NGO pursuit a Mubarak holdover
Faiza Abou el-Naga has survived a series of cabinet purges and weathered the groundswell of anger toward remnants of Mubarak's regime
U.S. slaps "terrorist" sanctions on Iran's spies
Obama administration asserts Iran's intelligence services support global terrorism, commit human rights abuses
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U.S. officials: Al Qaeda behind Syria bombings
A series of bombings against the Assad regime in Syria "all the earmarks of an al Qaeda-like attack", officials say
Israel sends mixed signals on Iran sanctions
Top Israeli officials disagree on whether sanctions are working amid growing concerns Israel is preparing to attack Iran
Judges accuse Iraqi VP of running death squads
An Iraqi judicial panel says Sunni VP Tariq al-Hashemi's death squards targeted state security and Shiites
General: Iran unlikely to strike unless hit
Intel agency chief tells senators that attack over alleged nuclear weapons program could spark retaliation against U.S. forces
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