[World] The Motive and the Means: Did al-Qaeda Stage the Benghazi Attack?

The Motive and the Means: Did al-Qaeda Stage the Benghazi Attack?
http://world.time.com/2012/10/02/the-motive-and-the-means-did-al-qaeda-stage-the-benghazi-attack/
By Vivienne Walt | @vivwalt | October 2, 2012 | + Three weeks after the calamitous attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, a former Libyan intelligence chief tells TIME that he is convinced that the assault was a premeditated operation carried out by ...

Syrian State TV Lashes Out at Hamas Leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/world/middleeast/syrian-state-tv-lashes-out-at-hamas-leader-khaled-meshal.html
BEIRUT, Lebanon - State television in Syria issued a withering attack late Monday on a longtime ally, the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshal, addressing him as if he were an ungrateful child, saying he was having a “romantic ...

Students Among the Dead in Attack on Nigerian School
http://www.voanews.com/content/gunman-attack-northern-nigeria-students-10-dead/1518816.html
ABUJA - At least 25 people were killed late Monday in what appears to be a systematic slaughter in Adamawa State in northern Nigeria.

Paolo Gabriele trial: Former butler was 'mistreated'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19795742
Pope Benedict's ex-butler, on trial inside the Vatican, has complained of mistreatment after his arrest on charges of stealing documents from the pontiff's private apartment.

Syrian Shells in Lebanon Stoke Fear of Broader Conflict
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=801575
By Donna Abu-Nasr on October 02, 2012 Mustapha Hassan, a farmer in the Lebanese village of Noura al-Tahta next to the border with Syria, is not willing to risk his life for his crops.

Islamist-secular struggle over Egypt constitution
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/54582/Egypt/Politics-/New-Egyptian-constitution-offers-fewer-religious-f.aspx
CAIRO (AP) - Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt's long-awaited new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring theocratic rule and severely set back civil liberties, including provisions that could empower ...

Court summons Maldives ex-president Mohamed Nasheed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19800821
Judges in the Maldives have issued a summons for the country's ex-president to appear in court next week, after he boycotted the start of his trial.

Rights group calls on Egypt's leader to counter 'bloody legacy' of abuse by ...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/02/egypt-amnest-report-abuses.html
CAIRO - Amnesty International on Tuesday took Egypt's new president to task for failing to address the “bloody legacy” of abuses by security forces committed under military rule after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, which continue even after the ...

Is Venezuela's Hugo Chavez sincere in endorsing Obama?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/1002/Is-Venezuela-s-Hugo-Chavez-sincere-in-endorsing-Obama
Presidential candidates are usually happy to tout public support from prominent figures - see Mitt Romney trading back slaps with John Elway Monday night after receiving the former NFL quarterback's nod.

Police drop Strauss-Khan gang rape case
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/02/strauss-kahn-rape-case-dropped.html
French prosecutors say they are shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn had engaged in group rape.

No red beacons, no perks, promises Kejriwal's party
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/No-red-beacons-no-perks-promises-Kejriwal-s-party/Article1-939023.aspx
Eighteen months after he planned a highly successful anti-graft movement under Anna Hazare's leadership, Arvind Kejriwal, 44, on Tuesday staked his credibility by entering into unchartered territory by announcing the launch of a new political party.

'I may not visit London again,' admits retired general who survived ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-2211917/I-visit-London-admits-retired-general-survived-assassination-attempt-citys-streets.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
By Saurabh Shukla "It is a hate crime, my inner strength saved me, otherwise I wouldn't have survived to talk to you. The intent was clearly to assassinate me," 78-year-old Lt-Gen.

Ai Weiwei gets first big US show, shaped by his plight
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDMqb-JCgGDdXcfiF-B8fcpqPSuQ?docId=CNG.f31358aea7c19f04d766f5c6c315e488.4c1
By Robert MacPherson (AFP) - 6 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The first US survey of the work of Ai Weiwei opens this weekend in Washington, shaped -- in the words of the dissident artist himself -- by his ongoing struggle with the powers that be in Beijing.

The humanity of Eric Hobsbawm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/oct/02/eric-hobsbawm-on-culture
Your various articles on Eric Hobsbawm on 2 October (Tributes pour in for a giant of history and the left; Intellectual who transformed the study of history in Britain; Obituary; Leader; Hobsbawm's history, G2) devote almost exclusive attention to his ...