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• Sixty-five people executed in Syria's Aleppo: activists
• Mursi due in Germany on visit shortened by Egypt crisis
• Blind dissident urges global pressure on China over rights
• North Korea's Kim dashes early hope but U.S. still seeks change: Clinton
• $7.3 million camp for Afghan police found nearly empty: inspectors
• Venezuelan vice president says Chavez is "very optimistic" of recovery
• Brazilian cities crack down on nightclubs after deadly fire
• Fear, threats and bad food: life aboard a sanctions-hit Iranian ship
• U.N. nuclear watchdog backs Iran's denial of Fordow blast
• Mali secures recaptured towns, donors pledge funds
• Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice
• Egypt army chief warns state could collapse
• US eyes drone base in Africa with al-Qaida in mind
• In recaptured city in Mali, Islamists hunted down
• Brazil police: Outdoor flare started club fire
• Peace envoy says Syria is 'being destroyed'
• UN seeks major aid boost for Syrian 'catastrophe'
• Mexico's new president mostly mum on drug violence
• US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,045
• UN, experts poised to confirm any NKorean blast
• Egypt shudders, with leadership nowhere in sight
• In Timbuktu, a giant task of reconnecting a remote city to the world
• What does the world expect from newly confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry?
• As Egyptians flout curfew, Army warns of 'collapse'
• Spanish economy shows glimmers of hope, but prime minister gets no love
• Putin eyes trip to Antarctica, shuns elder image
• Mixed feelings south of the border on Senate immigration plan
• Mugabe talks up reconciliation, but is it just 'lipstick on a frog'?
• In Port Said, alienation from Cairo makes anger burn hotter
• Why combat role for US women could reverberate worldwide
• Mali: French bring the troops, world now bringing the funds
• Scandal at world's oldest bank upends Italian elections

Sixty-five people executed in Syria's Aleppo: activists Posted: 29 Jan 2013 03:15 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a "new massacre" in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Opposition campaigners blamed the government but it was impossible to confirm who was responsible. Assad's forces and rebels have been battling in Syria's commercial hub since July and both have been accused of carrying out summary executions. U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told the U.N. ...

Mursi due in Germany on visit shortened by Egypt crisis Posted: 29 Jan 2013 03:18 PM PST CAIRO/BERLIN (Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi is to leave Egypt's political crisis behind on Wednesday with a short trip to Germany to seek urgently needed foreign investment and convince Europe of his democratic credentials. But with the Egyptian army chief warning on Tuesday that the state was on the brink of collapse after days of lethal street violence, Mursi cancelled plans to go on to Paris from Berlin and will instead hurry back to Cairo later in the day. ...

Blind dissident urges global pressure on China over rights Posted: 29 Jan 2013 03:41 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng urged the United States on Tuesday not to let business concerns prevent it from pressing China over human rights, saying America must never "offer the smallest compromise" on its principles. Chen is a self-taught legal advocate whose escape from house arrest last April and subsequent refuge in the U.S. Embassy embarrassed China and led to a diplomatic tussle that ended with him leaving China to study in New York. ...

North Korea's Kim dashes early hope but U.S. still seeks change: Clinton Posted: 29 Jan 2013 09:43 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's missile tests and menacing rhetoric have disappointed U.S. expectations that young leader Kim Jong-un would be different than his father but Washington still hopes to persuade Pyongyang to change course, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday. "With a new young leader we all expected something different," Clinton said in a town hall-style session put together by the State Department and broadcast worldwide. "We expected him to focus on improving the lives of the North Korea people, not just the elite, but everyone. ...

$7.3 million camp for Afghan police found nearly empty: inspectors Posted: 29 Jan 2013 03:10 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A $7.3 million base camp built to house 175 Afghan Border Police was sitting virtually empty two months after it was handed over to Afghan authorities, and some equipment like wood-burning stoves had been dismantled, U.S. inspectors reported on Tuesday. The facility, located in Kunduz Province, consisted of 12 buildings, including a dining hall, that were contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers and completed September 3, 2012, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. ...

Venezuelan vice president says Chavez is "very optimistic" of recovery Posted: 29 Jan 2013 10:34 AM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Hugo Chavez is upbeat about recovering from cancer and confident in his medical team, his No. 2 said on Tuesday in the latest message from the Venezuelan leader's sickbed in Cuba. "He told us with great strength: 'I am very optimistic, I trust completely in the treatments I am undergoing, I will beat this again. I'm holding onto Christ and life,'" Vice President Nicolas Maduro said of Chavez's words to him on a recent visit. ...

Brazilian cities crack down on nightclubs after deadly fire Posted: 29 Jan 2013 03:18 PM PST SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Cities across Brazil are cracking down on nightclubs to ensure that they comply with fire regulations after a weekend blaze swept through at a club in the southern university town of Santa Maria, killing 234 people. The fire was Brazil's deadliest in half a century and the tragedy resonated across the country, with many people demanding those responsible be prosecuted and that the government tighten up on safety. ...

Fear, threats and bad food: life aboard a sanctions-hit Iranian ship Posted: 29 Jan 2013 01:13 PM PST CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - The eight Indian crew members on board the MV Amina had no inkling they were trapped on the frontline of the West's economic war against Iran. All experienced seamen, they joined the Iranian-flagged cargo ship last year. Within months, they were caught up in a fight to prevent the ship fleeing to international waters to escape port arrest in Sri Lanka. Having disobeyed the captain's orders to weigh anchor, their courage turned to fear. ...

U.N. nuclear watchdog backs Iran's denial of Fordow blast Posted: 29 Jan 2013 12:48 PM PST VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog made clear on Tuesday it had seen no sign of any explosion at one of Iran's most sensitive nuclear plants, backing up Tehran's denial of media reports that such an incident had taken place last week. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in an unusual move, made a brief statement after some Israeli and Western media at the weekend reported there had been significant damage at the underground Fordow uranium enrichment facility. ...

Mali secures recaptured towns, donors pledge funds Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:29 PM PST DOUENTZA/GAO, Mali (Reuters) - French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday, uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and France said it aimed to hand over longer-term security operations in Mali to an African force. An 18-day offensive in France's former West African colony has pushed the militants out of major towns and into desert and mountain hideouts to head off the risk of Mali being used as a springboard for jihadist attacks in the wider region or Europe. ...

Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:40 PM PST SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this Brazilian college town.

Egypt army chief warns state could collapse Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:10 PM PST PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) — Residents of this Mediterranean coastal city burying their dead from Egypt's wave of political violence vented their fury at Egypt's Islamist president and the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, demanding his ouster and virtually declaring a revolt against his rule, as the head of the military warned Egypt may collapse under the weight of its turmoil.

US eyes drone base in Africa with al-Qaida in mind Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:14 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans to base unarmed American surveillance drones in the African nation of Niger highlight the Obama administration's growing concern about extremist influences in the volatile region. They also raise tough questions about how to contain al-Qaida and other militant groups without committing U.S. ground forces in yet another war.

In recaptured city in Mali, Islamists hunted down Posted: 29 Jan 2013 11:11 AM PST GAO, Mali (AP) — Residents in Mali's newly liberated city of Gao hunted down and beat suspected Islamist extremists who had not fled with their brothers-in-arms as Malian and French military forces closed in and retook the town.

Brazil police: Outdoor flare started club fire Posted: 29 Jan 2013 03:51 PM PST SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the investigation into this weekend's deadly blaze.

Peace envoy says Syria is 'being destroyed' Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:04 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The international envoy to Syria told the Security Council on Tuesday that "Syria is being destroyed bit by bit" and his mediation effort cannot go forward unless the council unites to push the Syrian government and opposition forces toward some compromise.

UN seeks major aid boost for Syrian 'catastrophe' Posted: 29 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST KUWAIT CITY (AP) — International aid officials are framing their latest gathering on Syria's humanitarian crises in terms not seen in the region since the height of the Iraq war: Refugee numbers possibly swelling toward 1 million, more than double that number in need of help inside the country and political policymaking among Bashar Assad's foes torn between the battlefield strategies and the civilian costs.

Mexico's new president mostly mum on drug violence Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:37 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two months after President Enrique Pena Nieto took office promising to reduce violent crime, the killings linked to Mexico's drug cartels continue unabated.

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,045 Posted: 29 Jan 2013 12:59 PM PST As of Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at least 2,045 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

UN, experts poised to confirm any NKorean blast Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:31 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts say it might be difficult to establish whether the blast is nuclear in nature.

Egypt shudders, with leadership nowhere in sight Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:38 PM PST "The continuation of this struggle between the different political forces ... could lead to the collapse of the state."

In Timbuktu, a giant task of reconnecting a remote city to the world Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:37 PM PST When the Internet got knocked out three weeks ago here in Timbuktu, Islamist militants who then ran the city did what most of us would do: They harassed their service provider.

What does the world expect from newly confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry? Posted: 29 Jan 2013 01:45 PM PST Hillary Rodham Clinton has been one of the US's most popular and peripatetic secretaries of state – logging nearly 1 million miles in four years and becoming a household name from Panama to Pakistan.

As Egyptians flout curfew, Army warns of 'collapse' Posted: 29 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST The head of Egypt's Army warned today that Egypt's upheaval could lead to the "collapse of the state," a starkly worded warning from the institution that ruled Egypt during the recent transition.

Spanish economy shows glimmers of hope, but prime minister gets no love Posted: 29 Jan 2013 12:35 PM PST It looks like 2013 is going to be another hard year for Mariano Rajoy.

Putin eyes trip to Antarctica, shuns elder image Posted: 29 Jan 2013 09:14 AM PST Russian President Vladimir Putin is rejecting the advice of some of his PR specialists to dial back his trademark action-hero persona and instead cultivate the image of a "wise patriarch," according to the pro-government Moscow daily Izvestia.

Mixed feelings south of the border on Senate immigration plan Posted: 29 Jan 2013 07:47 AM PST If anyone is an activist for the rights of Mexican migrants, it is Adriana Cortes, the head of the Community Foundation of the Bajio, a nongovernmental organization in the Mexican state of Guanajuato that focuses on local rural development.

Mugabe talks up reconciliation, but is it just 'lipstick on a frog'? Posted: 29 Jan 2013 07:37 AM PST When Zimbabwe's controversial leader Robert Mugabe spoke Jan. 21 at the burial of his deputy, he called for "peace, peace and more peace."

In Port Said, alienation from Cairo makes anger burn hotter Posted: 29 Jan 2013 07:06 AM PST Egyptians gathered outside a mosque yesterday in this Suez Canal city to mourn those killed the day before – killed as they marched in a similar funeral procession for people who died a day earlier day in clashes with police.

Why combat role for US women could reverberate worldwide Posted: 29 Jan 2013 06:08 AM PST In lifting a ban on women serving in combat roles in the US military, the Obama administration has made a monumental move toward gender rights that could ultimately change the way war looks.

Mali: French bring the troops, world now bringing the funds Posted: 29 Jan 2013 06:02 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Scandal at world's oldest bank upends Italian elections Posted: 29 Jan 2013 05:32 AM PST A scandal engulfing the world's oldest bank has emerged as a potential game changer in Italy's national election, threatening to drag down the leading party in the polls and give a critical boost to Silvio Berlusconi's bid to regain office.

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