News 1st Look: Violence ripples across Iraq, leaves 8 dead

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Violence ripples across Iraq, leaves 8 dead

Violence ripples across Iraq, leaves 8 dead
Senegal's president will face runoff
Amnesty report rips Iranian crackdown
Official: 18 dead after buses ambushed in Pakistan
U.S. says Mexican drug war 'not a failure'
Wounded photographer escapes
Why Syria's Christians are angry
Making house calls on the high seas
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Violence ripples across Iraq, leaves 8 dead

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:02 AM PST

A series of attacks across the Iraqi capital left seven people dead and nine wounded Tuesday, while another attack killed a local leader and wounded his guard in Fallujah.

Senegal's president will face runoff

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 06:21 PM PST

Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade acknowledged Monday that he fell short of a majority in his country's weekend presidential vote and will have to face a runoff.

Amnesty report rips Iranian crackdown

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:50 PM PST

While the world's attention has been focused on tumult in the Arab world, Iran has cracked down with impunity on dissent and is feared to come down even harder as elections approach, Amnesty International said in a sweeping report.

Official: 18 dead after buses ambushed in Pakistan

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:08 AM PST

Assailants ambushed four passenger buses in northwest Pakistan, pulled out Shiite males and killed 18 of them Tuesday, police said.

U.S. says Mexican drug war 'not a failure'

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:10 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Monday that the war on drugs in Mexico "is not a failure."

Wounded photographer escapes

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:32 AM PST

British photographer Paul Conroy, who was wounded in an attack in Syria that left two other journalists dead last week, has been smuggled out of the country and is now safe in Lebanon, activist Wissam Tarif said Tuesday.

Why Syria's Christians are angry

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:43 AM PST

In Syria, the Christians are angry. For eleven months, many of their leaders have stood firmly behind the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. However, Syria's new Constitution explicitly says in Article 3 that the president of the country has to be a Muslim, thereby barring Christians from the right to run for the top post.

Making house calls on the high seas

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:41 PM PST

In the last two years, Dr. Benjamin LaBrot and his team of volunteers have traveled on "The Southern Wind," a 76-foot-long refurbished ship, to treat nearly 13,000 patients in Haiti, Honduras and Panama.