U.N. assembly adopts resolution condemning Syria (Reuters)

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• U.N. assembly adopts resolution condemning Syria (Reuters)
• Nigerian "underwear" bomber gets life in prison in U.S. (Reuters)
• U.S.-China discord remains after Xi's mood music (Reuters)
• Nuclear crisis turns Japan ex-PM Kan into energy apostle (Reuters)
• Iran "shadow war" intensifies, crosses borders (Reuters)
• After Gaddafi: Why Libya Turns into a More Dangerous Place (Time.com)
• Latvia votes: Is Russian our language, too? (AP)
• A year after uprising, militias hold sway in Libya (AP)
• US forensics team to help probe Honduras fire (AP)
• 2 police officers killed by gunmen in Nigeria (AP)
• HK leader-in-waiting hit by basement controversy (AP)
• House passes Keystone bill, Senate action uncertain (Reuters)
• Sarkozy seeks presidency again, promising 'strong France' (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Talks with the Taliban Are Inevitable, But Who Will Be at the Table? (Time.com)
• Putin on trial? Fake video goes viral in Russia (+video) (The Christian Science Monitor)

U.N. assembly adopts resolution condemning Syria (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:54 AM PST Reuters - The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly ratcheted up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday by overwhelmingly approving a resolution that endorses an Arab League plan calling for him to step aside.

Nigerian "underwear" bomber gets life in prison in U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:57 AM PST Reuters - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian man to life in prison for trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear.

U.S.-China discord remains after Xi's mood music (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:52 PM PST Reuters - China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping won the kind of reception in the United States that suggests Washington sees his rise as a chance to narrow economic and political rifts.

Nuclear crisis turns Japan ex-PM Kan into energy apostle (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:20 AM PST Reuters - Nearly a year after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger crisis forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo and threatening the nation's existence.

Iran "shadow war" intensifies, crosses borders (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST Reuters - The loudest noise that Thongma Danoi had ever heard was followed 20 minutes later by the strangest sight: a dazed and bloodied Iranian carrying two wire-adorned devices through the usually sleepy Bangkok neighborhood.

After Gaddafi: Why Libya Turns into a More Dangerous Place (Time.com) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:00 AM PST Time.com - Libya should be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the revolution that toppled Gaddafi. Instead, the country remains fractured and dangerous due to its powerful militias

Latvia votes: Is Russian our language, too? (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:19 AM PST AP - Like a detective at a crime scene, chief language inspector Antons Kursitis scans the lobby of a hotel in downtown Riga. He spots a brochure that lists hotel services in Russian only, a flagrant violation of Latvia's language laws.

A year after uprising, militias hold sway in Libya (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:03 PM PST AP - One militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighborhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where torture is said to be rampant.

US forensics team to help probe Honduras fire (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:15 PM PST AP - Countries are reaching out to Honduras after its deadly prison fire, sending medical aid and forensic doctors, with the United States dispatching an investigative team to help find the cause of the blaze.

2 police officers killed by gunmen in Nigeria (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:38 AM PST AP - Authorities say unknown gunmen shot and killed two police officers in Nigeria after a radical Islamist sect engineered a prison break in a neighboring state.

HK leader-in-waiting hit by basement controversy (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:15 AM PST AP - The man widely seen as Hong Kong's next leader is mired in a controversy over a luxurious but illegal basement extension that is raising concern among his supporters in Beijing.

House passes Keystone bill, Senate action uncertain (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:08 PM PST Reuters - The House of Representatives passed an energy bill on Thursday that would wrest control of a permit for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline away from President Barack Obama, who has put the project on hold.

Sarkozy seeks presidency again, promising 'strong France' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:34 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Trailing in polls and criticized by supporters for taking too long to unleash his formidable campaign skills, Nicolas Sarkozy has finally made his reelection campaign official, telling France, “Yes, I’m a candidate in the presidential election.”

Talks with the Taliban Are Inevitable, But Who Will Be at the Table? (Time.com) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:00 AM PST Time.com - The U.S. has said that within two years it will end its already decade-long military entanglement in Afghanistan's civil war, and the Taliban is anything but defeated

Putin on trial? Fake video goes viral in Russia (+video) (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:22 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A startlingly realistic fake "breaking news" video purporting to show the arrest and trial of Vladimir Putin has gone viral, garnering well over 3 million hits since it was posted on YouTube on Monday.

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