 | Los Angeles Times - The European Union's oil boycott is part of a US-led campaign of sanctions to pressure Iran to return to talks over its nuclear enrichment program. |
 | New York Times - HOMS, Syria - Women threw rice onto three coffins draped with the country's flag, a tribute to young men who died before they could marry in the violence that is ripping this city apart. |
 | New York Times - CAIRO - As Egypt's first freely elected Parliament in six decades held its opening session on Monday, the Muslim Brotherhood received a lesson in the unwieldiness of democracy when a dispute over choosing a speaker degenerated into a shouting match ... |
 | BBC News - Turkey has reacted with anger after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I. The Turkish foreign ministry branded the decision "irresponsible" and ... |
 | Washington Post - Asian Americans gathered to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with fireworks, dancing and confetti on Monday which marks the beginning of the Chinese year of the Dragon. |
 | AFP - GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy - The chaos in the bowels of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia is the worst diver Fabio Paoletti has ever seen and the terror of navigating through an underwater labyrinth is hard to shake off. |
 | BBC News - US Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are facing off in a national debate in the US state of Florida, ahead of the primary vote there. |
 | Herald Sun - DEADLY clashes erupted today in Bani Walid, with a Libyan minister denying local officials' claims the attack on the former bastion of Muammar Gaddafi was carried out by his loyalists. |
 | New York Times - PARIS - Four prominent Kenyans, two of them presidential candidates, were ordered Monday to stand trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the bloodshed and waves of violence ... |
 | Reuters - By Michael Perry | AUCKLAND (Reuters) - The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges of internet piracy and money laundering and said authorities were trying to ... |
 | New York Times - TUCSON - Just before Christmas 2010, Representative Gabrielle Giffords took her staff to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona here so they could see firsthand how the organization was helping the less fortunate during the recession. |
 | The Australian - CHINESE forces shot dead three Tibetans and wounded about 30 amid a mass refusal by Tibetans in China to observe the Chinese New Year. |
 | Times of India - KANO, Nigeria: Fresh explosions and gunfire early Tuesday rocked an area near a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano, where coordinated attacks claimed by Islamists and shootouts left at least 185 dead last week. |
 | Reuters - By Chris Allbritton | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signaled that the US-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation ... |
 | BBC News - Near complete results from Croatia's referendum on European Union membership suggest that a large majority of people want to join the EU in 2013. |
 | The Australian - THE Greens say a decision by US legislators last week to delay the introduction of two controversial anti-piracy laws doesn't go far enough. |
 | Herald Sun - UNIDENTIFIED gunmen today shot dead 15 of the 18 fishermen aboard a boat off the southern Filipino province of Basilan. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command, told the Mindanao Examiner that the three ... |
 | Reuters - By Gergely Szakacs and Marton Dunai | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary could secure a new funding deal worth around 17-20 billion euros with international lenders by March or April, a top government official said on Monday as consumer sentiment in the ... |
 | AFP - NEW YORK - The former US pointman on North Korea voiced doubt that the communist regime would give significant power to young new leader Kim Jong-Un, lowering chances for a resumption of diplomacy. |
 | iNewsToday - The human rights situation in Thailand deteriorated in 2011 as the government failed to address impunity for human rights abuses by security forces, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. |