Month: July 2011

Activists speaking at a Syrian government-sponsored “national dialogue” meeting today criticized recent crackdowns by the country’s security forces, calling for an end to violence against protesters.

Activists speaking at a Syrian government-sponsored “national dialogue” meeting today criticized recent crackdowns by the country’s security forces, calling for an end to violence against protesters.

Gunmen shot dead Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral on Saturday as his car made its way to the airport in Guatemala City, police said.

Video broadcast on Yemeni state television Sunday showed the country’s embattled president meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser in Saudi Arabia.

The last edition of the News of the World hit stands Sunday morning, as Britain’s best-selling newspaper shut down in the face of a phone scandal that has rattled the foundation of the nation’s political establishment.