[World] Brazen Jewel Robbery at Brussels Airport Nets $50 Million in Diamonds

Brazen Jewel Robbery at Brussels Airport Nets $50 Million in Diamonds
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/brazen-brussels-heist-nets-50m-in-diamonds-20130220-2eq6g.html
BRUSSELS - They arrived at Brussels Airport armed with automatic weapons and dressed in police uniforms aboard two vehicles equipped with blue police lights.

US, China Ties Tested in Cyberspace
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323764804578314591857289004.html
Ties between China and the U.S., strained by military rivalries and maritime disputes, may face an even greater test from the newest front in global conflict: cyberspace.

IMF says still in touch with Tunisia on loan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/pm-jebali-resigns-after-failing-to-form-new-government/article8807425/
WASHINGTON | Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:21pm EST. WASHINGTON Feb 19 (Reuters) - Negotiations between Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund on a $1.78 billion loan are continuing at a technical level, an IMF spokeswoman said after political turmoil ...

General Selected for NATO Post Will Retire, Citing Wife's Health
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/19/us-marine-general-john-allen-retire-petraeus-email-link.html
WASHINGTON - Gen. John R. Allen, the four-star Marine Corps officer who served until earlier this month as the top commander in Afghanistan, will retire from the military to focus on “health issues within his family,” President Obama said on Tuesday.

French Soldier Killed in Mali Clash With Radicals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/19/french-soldier-killed-mali
A French soldier was killed on Tuesday in a clash with jihadists in northern Mali where the French are in the midst of a critical operation, President Francois Hollande announced.

Drones Are the Worst Form Of War, Except For All The Others
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/02/drones_war_and_civilian_casualties_how_unmanned_aircraft_reduce_collateral.html
Anti-drone protesters disrupting a Feb. 7 hearing on the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.

Palestinian prisoner's hunger strike reaches 211th day
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/palestinian-prisoner-hunger-strike-reaches-211th-day-article-1.1268415
The hunger strike of a well-known Palestinian prisoner continued into its 211th day on Tuesday as countrymen protesting his treatment clashed with Israeli soldiers.

Britain's Cameron to voice regret for Jallianwala Bagh massacre
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sikh-outfit-writes-to-british-prime-minister-david-cameron-ahead-of-his-golden-temple-visit/373998-3.html
David Cameron will on Wednesday become the first serving prime minister to voice regret about one of the British Empire's bloodiest episodes in India and will lay a wreath at Amritsar, scene of a notorious massacre of unarmed civilians.

LTTE chief's son's death: Filmmaker claims he has more evidence of SL army ...
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/sri-lankan-soldiers-accused-of-executing-rebel-leaders-son-20130220-2er1e.html
New Delhi: The US plans to introduce resolution on Sri Lankan war atrocities at the United Nations meet after report on cold-blooded murder of LTTE Chief Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son.

Courts halt Georgia killer Warren Hill's execution
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/last-chance-for-warren-lee-hill/
FEB. 19, 2013 JACKSON: Prison guards check a vehicle entering the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Condemned killer Warren Lee Hill, whose mental retardation claims have attracted international attention, was to have been put ...

North Korea: A nuclear 7-Eleven?
http://www.news.com.au/world/nkorea-envoy-warns-south-of-destruction/story-fndir2ev-1226581555771
Experts differ about the scale and immediacy of the military threat posed by North Korea's latest nuclear test, but there is little disagreement about the alarming proliferation risks it presents.

Italy's centre-left woos Monti
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/economist-pm-monti-dogged-by-sex-appeal-deficit-20130219-2eool.html
Italy's centre-left Democrats have urged prime minister Mario Monti to join them in a coalition government that would face the strongest anti-European and most populist opposition of any eurozone parliament.

In Pakistan, there's no answer to terror
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/19/pakistan-terror-murder-shias-baluchistan
On Monday, in Karachi, I stayed at home while protesters took to the streets in an attempt to rouse Pakistan into action against the continuing extermination of Shia Muslims.