[World] Army Chief Warns of Egypt's 'Collapse' as Violence Mounts

Army Chief Warns of Egypt's 'Collapse' as Violence Mounts
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/world/middleeast/egypt-protest-updates.html?pagewanted=all
CAIRO - Reacting to Egypt's growing chaos, the head of the Army warned on Tuesday of the “collapse of the state” if political forces in the country did not reconcile, reflecting growing impatience with the crisis from Egypt's most powerful institution.

Timbuktu, ancient seat of Islamic learning
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hg_u130xGgx3IcfoPseFUgxudb_g?docId=f8f34c32fc6b462fbe6ab60fefc558de
SEVARE, Mali (AP) - Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient Arab manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed in the Americas.

Plane crash kills 21 in Kazakhstan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-01/29/c_132136941.htm
ASTANA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- A passenger plane crashed in thick fog as it prepared to land in Kazakhstan's largest city of Almaty on Tuesday, killing all 21 people aboard, authorities said.

British queen not likely to follow Dutch example
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/jST9Nr9VdzZcJWOnXBkIkN/Dutch-Queen-abdicates-WillemAlexander-to-succeed.html
LONDON (AP) - The story in the Daily Mirror features a photo of an elegant aging monarch with the headline: "Queen Gives Up Her Throne to Son.

Hospital evacuated as Australia hit by heavy flooding
http://www.smh.com.au/business/floods-make-insurers-bills-rise-20130129-2diu5.html
Editor's note: Are you there? Send us your photos, videos, but please stay safe. (CNN) -- Heavy flooding in Australia caused by torrential rains has forced mass evacuations from towns along the country's east coast, with critically-ill patients and newborns from ...

Rescind North Korea's license to provoke
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/29/japan-sanctions-north-korea-nuclear-test.html
Editor's note: Patrick M. Cronin is senior adviser and senior director of the Asian-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington.

Departing SKorean president grants special pardons
http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Departing-SKorean-president-grants-special-pardons-4231738.php
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's outgoing president has granted special pardons to political allies despite criticism from his successor.

Suicide bomber kills two near Somali presidential palace
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/two-dead-in-somalia-palace-blast-3369182.html
By Abdi Sheikh. MOGADISHU | Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:16am EST. MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Somali presidential palace on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers in a strike apparently aimed at the country's leaders, ...

Pakistan polio vaccination policeman shot dead by gunmen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21244016
A policeman providing security for a polio vaccination team in Pakistan has been killed by gunmen near the north-western town of Swabi, officials say.

Syrian refugee flood breaches 700000
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/29/4036358/un-syrian-refugees-overwhelm-jordan.html
(CNN) -- History books are filled with mentions of "great migrations" -- vast displacements of people in the face of cataclysmic events.

France's parliament to debate gay marriage bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21243875
The French National Assembly is due to debate the legalisation of same-sex marriage after months of impassioned public protests and counter-protests.

Poison suspected in deaths of 10 endangered pygmy elephants in Borneo
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57566345/ten-endangered-borneo-pygmy-elephants-found-dead-in-malaysia/
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News. Ten endangered pygmy elephants have been found dead in suspicious circumstances in Malaysia, according to reports.