[World] Hyderabad is not a soft target: Andhra CM

Hyderabad is not a soft target: Andhra CM
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/pxdh4ZBQYaHL3pvCO32qBI/Specific-alert-was-sent-to-Hyderabad-Thursday-morning-centr.html
A day after two blasts ripped through the middle-class locality of Dilkushnagar in Hyderabad, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy answered a posse of questions, unhindered, at his office in the state secretariat on Friday.

Damascus car bomb kills dozens
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/90-killed-in-thursday-s-damascus-bombings-group-334322
A huge car bomb exploded near the Damascus office of Syria's ruling Ba'ath party on Thursday, killing dozens of people and underscoring the erosion of security inside the heavily guarded capital.

Pope's Twitter account to close as he leaves office, Vatican Radio says
http://www.news.com.au/world/pope-benedict-resigned-after-being-handed-report-into-gay-sex-and-corruption-in-vatican-says-newspaper/story-fndir2ev-1226583285843
(CNN) -- At the same time as Pope Benedict XVI leaves office on February 28, his Twitter presence as @Pontifex will also come to an end, according to Vatican Radio.

Iran determined as ever to get nuclear bomb
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4348146,00.html
The new report the International Atomic Energy Agency will submit to its Board of Governors at the end of the month does not point to any dramatic developments in Iran's nuclear program, but it does indicate that the Islamic Republic continues to develop the ...

Berlusconi renaissance would be 'disaster' for Italian economy
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/21/f-vp-murray-berlusconi-election.html
(CNN) -- A leading figure in the party poised to head Italy's next government says a return for the country's previous Prime Minister, controversial politician Silvio Berlusconi, would be a "disaster.

Egyptian Protesters Sending Morsi to the Moon
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/02/22/egyptian-protesters-sending-morsi-to-the-moon.html
Egyptian opposition groups are so desperate to get rid of President Mohamed Morsi, they're getting creative. The April 6 Youth Movementâ€"one of the major protest groups responsible for leading the 2011 uprising that took down former dictator Hosni ...

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party puts forward nation's top cop as new PM
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/22/tunisia.html
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party has chosen its hardline interior minister to form the North African nation's new government, a top official said Friday.

Palestinians clash with Israel Police at Jerusalem's Temple Mount
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-clash-with-israel-police-at-jerusalem-s-temple-mount-1.505213
Following the conclusion of Friday's morning prayers, Palestinian worshippers began hurling stones. Demonstrations supporting hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners also take place in Hebron, Ramallah.

Guatemala: Probing reports drug lord may be dead
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282727/Is-El-Chapo-dead-Police-probe-notorious-Mexican-drug-lord-killed-cartel-shootout.html
Guatemalan authorities are investigating if Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most dangerous and most wanted fugitives, is dead.

Horror of British guests told that the decomposed body of Elisa Lam was in their ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282632/Horror-British-guests-told-decomposed-body-Elisa-Lam-LA-hotel-water-tank.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
A British couple on holiday in Los Angeles have told how they drank, showered and brushed their teeth with water from a rooftop tank at a hotel - where a woman's body had been decomposing for three weeks.