Day: July 17, 2011

As fighting raged around the eastern Libyan oil town of al-Brega on Saturday, supporters of Moammar Gadhafi’s internationally isolated government staged a rally hundreds of miles to the west.

Syrian forces moved into a city near the Lebanese border Sunday, detaining dozens of people, residents said.

Afghanistan’s acting central bank governor says the country’s second largest private lender is not in crisis, warning outspoken lawmakers — who claim the bank is in trouble — against spreading fear among its account holders.

Iran offered to “collaborate” with Argentina’s investigation into the worst terrorist attack in the South American nation’s history, the bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people in 1994.

China spoke out strongly Sunday against a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, saying it “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and harmed Sino-U.S. relations.”

A “surprisingly healthy” population of rare snow leopards has been discovered in the remote northeastern stretches of Afghanistan, one of the few areas largely unaffected by the near decade-long war in the country.