Rebels whisk injured British reporter out of Syria
• USA TodaySyrian rebels smuggled a wounded British journalist out of the besieged central city of Homs Tuesday and whisked him to safety in neighboring Lebanon, activist groups said.
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Crippled cruise ship, being towed in Indian Ocean, to reach land Thursday, Costa says
• By Associated PressA crippled Italian cruise ship being towed in the Indian Ocean with more than 1,000 people aboard and no air conditioning now won’t reach land in the Seychelles until Thursday, officials said.
Attempt on Putin’s Life Foiled
• Moskovsky KomsomoletsThe media reported on Monday that Russian and Ukrainian secret services had foiled an attempt on the life of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
UPDATE 3-Ecuador's Correa pardons media accusers in libel case
• By Eduardo GarciaEcuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, on Monday pardoned three newspaper publishers and a former columnist who had been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay $40 million damages in a libel case that angered media freedom advocates.
Millions of Indian workers strike for rights
• ALJAZEERAMillions of workers in India have begun a 24-hour strike to demand improved rights for employees and to protest over rising prices.
Fishing boat assists stricken cruise ship
• ALJAZEERAItalian ship with 1,000 people aboard under tow to Seychelles after night adrift without power on the Indian Ocean.
Piracy threatens West Africa oil expansion
• The RawStory.comPiracy is a growing threat to West Africa’s plans to double oil production over the next decade and is already having a devastating impact on ports, the UN Security Council was warned Monday.
U.S. stocks tumble as high oil price weighs
• The RawStory.comUS stocks sank Monday as traders worried about the high price of oil and after the Group of 20 major economies snubbed Europe’s call for more aid to fight the eurozone debt crisis.
TransCanada makes new push for Keystone XL oil pipeline
• The RawStory.comTransCanada Corp announced Monday it would go ahead with construction of part of its Keystone XL oil pipeline that does not require US presidential approval, a stretch from the state of Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast.
Former President Bill Clinton among Nobel Prize nominees
• The RawStory.comTunisian President Moncef Marzouki, alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, and former President Bill Clinton may be among the hundreds of nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, rights activists say.
Yemen’s Saleh formally steps down after 33 years
• The RawStory.comYemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down after 33 years at the helm on Tuesday at a ceremony at the presidential palace in Sanaa, formally handing power to his deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi.
'US to announce aerial blockade on Syria'
• Roi KaisUS readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border.
Cruise line: 22 passengers robbed in Mexican seaside resort
• By the CNN Wire StaffTwenty-two Carnival Cruise Lines passengers were robbed of valuables and their passports during a shore excursion in the Mexico seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta, cruise officials said late Saturday.
The Colonization Begins: Germany May Send 160 Tax Collectors To Greece
• Tyler DurdenEuropean banks and various insurance companies are about to send out the first group of colonial scouts in the form of German tax collectors.
Wikileaks Begins Publishing ‘Millions’ of Stolen Stratfor Emails
• By Matt PeckhamOut of the frying pan, into the fire: Global intelligence firm Stratfor may have secured its perimeters after its servers were infiltrated late last year, but a mammoth email dump just hit the grid courtesy Wikileaks.
Russia, Ukraine foiled plot to kill Putin
• APRussian and Ukrainian special services have arrested suspects linked to a Chechen rebel leader for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state television reported Monday, less than a week before elections he is all but cert
WRAPUP 3-Homs under fire, Syria awaits vote result
• REUTERSSyrian artillery pummelled rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday.
US court rejects oil company’s appeal to dismiss judgment issued by Ecuadoran court.
• Luis Ángel SaavedraChevron continues to lose legal battles
Will France's First Lady Be Able To Seduce Voters? by Eleanor Beardsley
• by Eleanor BeardsleyIn the traditional world of French politics, spouses don't usually jump into the fray. But French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy is anything but a traditional political spouse.
Scotland moves toward vote on independence
• Washington PostAfter centuries of war with England, politicians in this stately city signed away Scotland’s sovereignty in the early 1700s for the promise of riches and the glory of empire. Three hundred years later, resurgent nationalists here are plotting a new r
Colombia’s FARC promises to free all hostages
• The RawStory.comColombia’s FARC rebels pledged Sunday to end decades of kidnapping civilians, a historic shift for Latin America’s longest-fighting leftist guerrillas, who also vowed to release remaining police and military hostages.
Clinton says ‘every possibility’ of civil war in Syria
• The RawStory.comThere is “every possibility” that Syria could descend into a civil war which could be worsened by foreign intervention, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the BBC on Sunday.
Ecuador libel case pits Correa against the press
• Simeon TegelEcuador President Rafael Correa’s high-stakes showdown with the media could entirely prevent local reporters from covering presidential elections in the South American nation next January.
Afghan president calls for calm over Koran-burning
• The RawStory.comAfghan President Hamid Karzai went on television Sunday to appeal for calm after five days of violent anti-US protests across his country over the burning of Korans at a US military base.
Anti-Putin human chain protest hits Moscow
• The RawStory.comThousands of Russians linked hands around Moscow on Sunday in a protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s expected return to the Kremlin for a third term in elections next weekend.
Huge Anti-Putin Human Chain Protest Encircles Moscow
• Common Dreams staffJust a week before Russia's election, tens of thousands of anti-Putin protesters formed a continuous human chain stretching 10 miles around the center of Moscow on Sunday afternoon.
Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire from Three Points
• by Pyotr Iskenderov
India-EU FTA: Where is the Europe’s Trade Agenda Headed?
• by Kavaljit SinghThe internal documents of the European Commission reveal the disgraceful attempts to push for higher levels of commitments in trade in industrial goods and agricultural products, services and investment liberalisation
Privatization Derailed Argentina’s Rail System
• by Marcela ValenteIncreasingly frequent and tragic railway accidents in Argentina, like this week’s crash, show that the rail system, run by private companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from the state, constantly ignores warnings from in
Syria has made a curious transition from US ally to violator of human rights
• The GuardianIn recent weeks, US officials have been falling over one another to denounce the brutality of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. President Obama has accused it of committing "outrageous bloodshed" and called for Assad to stand down; Hillary Clinton
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