News 1st Look: Rights group: Dozens die in Syria clashes

Friday, April 29, 2011

Rights group: Dozens die in Syria clashes

Rights group: Dozens die in Syria clashes
Gadhafi's forces make big push
Will Syria's crisis spill over to Turkey?
Mexican kingpin extradited to U.S.
Terrorists blamed for bombing of Moroccan cafe
Think U.S. unemployment is bad? Look at Spain
U.S. challenges China's 'serious backsliding'
U.S. Embassy resumes normal operations in Egypt
Factory fire kills 10 in India

Rights group: Dozens die in Syria clashes

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:37 PM PDT

Syrian forces waged a brutal crackdown Friday on demonstrators, with witnesses saying dozens of people have died in the latest in a series of military actions aimed at suppressing civilian dissent.

Gadhafi's forces make big push

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:25 PM PDT

Libyan government forces seeking to re-enter the embattled port city of Misrata Friday killed at least nine people and wounded 30 others, a doctor who is a member of the medical committee in the city said.

Will Syria's crisis spill over to Turkey?

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:59 AM PDT

Turkish officials engaged in last-minute shuttle diplomacy with their restive neighbor Syria and repeated calls for restraint ahead of what is expected to be another violent day of protests across the Arab nation on Friday.

Mexican kingpin extradited to U.S.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:19 PM PDT

Drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix, one of the leaders of the major Tijuana cartel, was extradited to the United States on Friday, Mexico's attorney general's office said.

Terrorists blamed for bombing of Moroccan cafe

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:15 AM PDT

The death toll from a series of explosions at a cafe in Marrakech, Morocco, has risen to 16, government officials said Friday.

Think U.S. unemployment is bad? Look at Spain

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:09 AM PDT

Spain's unemployment rate rose nearly a point to 21.29%, with 4.9 million jobless for the first quarter of 2011, the government reported Friday, as the prolonged economic crisis continues to squeeze the nation.

U.S. challenges China's 'serious backsliding'

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:48 PM PDT

Talks between China and the United States about human rights issues, including missing Chinese activists, ended Thursday with little progress and many unanswered questions, an American diplomat said.

U.S. Embassy resumes normal operations in Egypt

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:46 AM PDT

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has resumed normal operations and the State Department is lifting the "ordered departure" status for its non-emergency staff there, according to a travel alert issued Thursday.