Ivory Coast soldiers killing rivals, attacked camp: Amnesty

Ivory Coast soldiers killing rivals, attacked camp: Amnesty

Ivory Coast soldiers killing rivals, attacked camp: Amnesty

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:40 PM PST

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian soldiers and allied militias are killing and torturing supporters of ousted president Laurent Gbagbo and took part in a deadly attack on a camp housing displaced civilians, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Car bomb hits northern Mali town of Kidal: sources

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:25 PM PST

BAMAKO (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in the remote northern Malian town of Kidal on Tuesday, Malian military and Tuareg rebel sources said, the second such attack in the town in recent days as Islamist rebels step up a guerrilla campaign.

Sri Lanka security rape, torture Tamil detainees: HRW

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:31 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces have used rape to torture and extract confessions from suspected Tamil separatists almost four years after the country's civil war ended, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday.

Chinatown Bus Operator Fung Wah Is Ordered to Shut Down

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 11:46 AM PST

Investigators will conduct a thorough safety review of Fung Wah Bus Transportation, one of the first bus companies in Chinatown to offer deep discounts.

Rare killing of US prison guard

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:12 PM PST

An inmate at a high-security Pennsylvania prison kills a guard, the first time a federal officer has died on the job in almost five years.

Low hopes for Rome talks over Syria

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:11 PM PST

Jim Muir on why change of heart on Syria talks was inevitable

Instagrams from within North Korea lift the veil, but only slightly

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:07 PM PST

This photo by AP Korean bureau chief Jean H. Lee has rocketed around the Internet this week, and for good reason. It's one of the first Instagrams posted since North Korea enabled 3G access for foreigners this week.

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Chinese Intellectuals Urge Ratification of Rights Treaty

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:10 PM PST

More than 100 scholars, journalists, lawyers and writers signed a petition calling on the National People's Congress to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

New York Uncovers Offending Mural for Brief Public Views

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:28 PM PST

"The Genius of America," which was installed in a New York State building in the mid-20th century but later hidden after objections to its depiction of a slave, is now available on a limited basis.

U.K. Tries to Censor Data on Ex-KGB Agent's Death

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:46 PM PST

The British government is seeking to withhold certain documents from a coroner's inquest into the fatal 2006 poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.

Italy seeks path out of election impasse

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:03 PM PST

Political parties must confront election deadlock that has spooked financial markets and sent shockwaves across Europe.

Testimony begins in BP oil spill trial

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 01:03 PM PST

Expert tells court BP fostered culture that put cost-cutting over safety before deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Flogging sentence for Maldives girl

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:26 PM PST

A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex with another man, say court officials in the Maldives.

How China and the U.S. misunderstand one another

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:33 PM PST

Fellow Washington Post blogger and Great Wall Szechuan House enthusiast Ezra Klein has a great post on what China's hackers got wrong about Washington. Like many of the city's own denizens, he writes, the hackers seemed to assume that there must be some sort of top-down master plan, which they actively sought to uncover, driving policy and politics here. Part of that may have been a product of the hackers (or, presumably, their allegedly military bosses) buying into Washington's myth of itself, and part may have been China perceiving and misperceiving the American system through the lens of its own.

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Hawkish Chinese general goes a little overboard on social media

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:31 PM PST

One of China's more hawkish generals waded into the melee of Weibo (China's Twitter) last week, but the masses appear to have shouted him down.

Major General Luo Yuan of the People's Liberation Army drew more than 237,000 followers in his first few days on Sina Weibo, and his first Weibo post drew more than 33,700 comments, reports the Sydney Morning-Herald. But while the general's nationalistic bent has been popular with conservatives and military enthusiasts, China's "netizens," who sometimes lean more liberal, haven't cheered him.

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Flogging sentence for Maldives girl

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:26 PM PST

A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex with another man, say court officials in the Maldives.

Fire deaths mortuary 'a circus'

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 11:11 AM PST

A court hears a mortuary visit by the mother and father accused of killing their six children in a house fire was "like a circus".

Pig Rescues Goat, and the Video Is Really Cute, but Totally Faked

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 08:27 AM PST

An adorable animal video on YouTube proved irresistible to several news programs, but its dramatic rescue of a baby goat was staged.

Most Venezuelans think Chavez will recover: poll

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:12 PM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Most Venezuelans expect President Hugo Chavez to recover from cancer and return to active rule even though he has been in hospital and virtually unseen for two-and-a-half months, a poll showed on Tuesday.

Obama Takes Budget Warnings to Shipbuilder

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 11:24 AM PST

President Obama on Tuesday stood in the facility that builds the country's aircraft carriers to warn that cuts in the Pentagon budget threaten tens of thousands of jobs.

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