[World] Trial Offers Rare Look at Work of Hezbollah in Europe

Trial Offers Rare Look at Work of Hezbollah in Europe
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=847603
LIMASSOL, Cyprus - In a little-noticed trial in a small courtroom here on Wednesday, a 24-year-old man provided a rare look inside a covert global war between Israel and Iran, admitting that he is an operative of the militant group Hezbollah, for which he ...

Hazara killings: CJ says intelligence should be shared with LEAs, not courts
http://dawn.com/2013/02/21/hazara-killings-cj-says-intelligence-should-be-shared-with-leas-not-courts/
ISLAMABAD: During Thursday's hearing of the suo motu notice taken of unabated killings of the Hazara community, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry remarked that intelligence was supposed to be shared with law enforcement agencies and not ...

Soccer Player Killed in Strike on Damascus Stadium
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323549204578315882400316270.html
BEIRUTâ€"Mortars exploded in a sports stadium in central Damascus on Wednesday, a day after the government said mortars struck close to a presidential palace, in what rebels and some analysts described as the start of a campaign of targeted strikes on ...

Outrage in Tamil Nadu over killing of Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Outrage-in-Tamil-Nadu-over-killing-of-Prabhakarans-12-year-old-son/articleshow/18583489.cms
CHENNAI: A series of chilling photographs showing Balachandran, the 12-year-old son of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, before and after he was shot dead in 2009, towards the end of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, has triggered an outcry in ...

Chávez Family 'Encouraged,' Bolivia Leader Says at UN
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuela-condemns-us-stance-amid-chavez-illness-18549278
President Evo Morales of Bolivia said Wednesday that Hugo Chávez, the cancer-stricken president of Venezuela and one of his closest friends, had endured “most difficult moments” and that Mr. Chávez's doctors and family were encouraged now that he had ...

Upbeat Rajoy says Spain is on the mend, despite economic woes
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/0220/Upbeat-Rajoy-says-Spain-is-on-the-mend-despite-economic-woes
An unapologetic Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Wednesday tried to inject optimism into his first state of the union speech before parliament, suggesting that while much pain remained ahead, the country is on a path to recovery.

Judges threatened ahead of Kenyan vote...
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/640013-judges-threatened-ahead-of-kenyan-vote.html
Judges threatened ahead of Kenyan votePublish Date: Feb 21, 2013. Judges threatened ahead of Kenyan vote. Tweet. mail; img. Chief justice Willy Mutunga said he had received the threats from a criminal gang known as Mungiki.

Militants kidnap French family in north Cameroon
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/20-Feb-2013/7-french-people-kidnapped-in-cameroon
By Tansa Musa and Bate Felix. YAOUNDE/DAKAR | Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:41pm EST. YAOUNDE/DAKAR (Reuters) - Islamist militants from neighboring Nigeria abducted a French family of seven, including four children, in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, ...

Tibetan Teenagers Die in Double Self-Immolation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/9883248/Tibetan-teenagers-set-themselves-on-fire.html
Two Tibetan teenagers killed themselves by self-immolation on Tuesday to protest Chinese rule in Tibet, according to reports on Wednesday by a Tibet advocacy group and Radio Free Asia.