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EU officials are expected to press Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a stronger line on Syria during a summit in St Petersburg.

ISLAMABAD (AP):A lawyer representing four Pakistani men accused of involvement in the 2010 Times Square bomb plot says they have been acquitted.Malik Imran Safdar said yesterday that the prosecution failed to prove its case against his clients Muhammad...

CAIRO (AP):Ousted president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power last year.

Voters in the Republic of Ireland have approved the EU fiscal pact.

The British Supreme Court has denied Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden over sexual abuse allegations.

Eleven-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead.

United Nations Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan says the country has reached a tipping point after more than a year of conflict.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): Pakistani judges are often pressured to convict people accused under the country's blasphemy laws that call for the death penalty for anyone insulting Islam, a special UN representative said yesterday....

DOHA, Qatar (AP): Investigators in Qatar carried out their first extensive probes through a fire-ravaged daycare centre and other charred areas inside the country's biggest mall yesterday after a blaze that killed 19 people, including 13 children....

BEIRUT (AP):The United Nation's human rights office disclosed yesterday that most of the 108 victims of a massacre in Syria last week were shot at close range, some of them women, children and entire families gunned down in their own homes.The massacre...

LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP):A petition drive to force a vote on Lincoln's "fairness ordinance" for gay and transgendered people has garnered nearly 10,000 signatures, four times the number needed to place the issue on the ballot, organisers said yesterday.

FRESNO (AP): Going to college seemed inconceivable when Adriana Sanchez, the 12-year-old daughter of farm workers, was brought from Mexico to Central California and the family overstayed their visas....