Actress voices her anger at Syria’s violence
An icon of Syria’s revolution is furious that her country’s peaceful protest movement has been drawn into armed conflict with the regime.
Pressure mounts as Gadaffi loses west Libya towns
Pressure mounted on Monday on Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi as anti-regime forces overran towns in his traditional western stronghold.
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Red Cross: Violence, looting on the rise in Haiti
The Red Cross warned on Monday that violence by desperate Haitians is growing, despite the mammoth international earthquake relief operation.
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Aid finally reaches quake survivors
Aid finally started reaching some of Pakistan’s thousands of cold and hungry earthquake survivors on Monday as helicopters, trucks and donkeys raced to reach Himalayan villages cut off for nine days. The leader of Pakistani Kashmir put the toll from South Asia’s disaster at more than 54 000.
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Villagers recount quake horror in the mountains
Villages wiped off the map, bodies rotting, survivors walking hours for water — earthquake victims fleeing Kashmir’s still inaccessible mountains recount the same apocalyptic tales. As villagers trudge into Pakistani Kashmir’s ravaged capital, they recount stories of entire towns razed and out of reach of food and medicine.
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Support grows for firebrand cleric
Many of Baghdad’s Shiite and Sunni Muslims on Wednesday rallied behind embattled firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr whose banned militia is facing a nationwide assault by US-led coalition forces. Al-Sadr meanwhile called for power in Iraq to be handed over to ”honest men” and not to collaborators of the US-led occupation.
