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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world world World News en-us Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:59:20 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_syria nm/20120223/us_syria Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:46:29 GMT Reuters - Syrian tanks pushed into a rebel stronghold in the battered city of Homs on Thursday and U.N. investigators accused President Bashar al-Assad's government of crimes against humanity. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_israel_usa_iran nm/20120223/us_israel_usa_iran Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:34:27 GMT Reuters - a hastily arranged meeting in a custodian's office at a Washington airport in 2007 - Iran has been one of the few issues on which Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu have been able to find some common ground. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_korans nm/20120223/us_afghanistan_korans Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:11:03 GMT Reuters - President Hamid Karzai on Thursday blamed a U.S. soldier for "ignorantly" burning copies of the Koran at a NATO base, an accusation that could trigger more protests across Afghanistan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_somalia_conference nm/20120223/us_somalia_conference Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:48:48 GMT Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday threatened sanctions on anyone blocking reforms intended to end Somalia's "hopeless, bloody conflict" and counter militant and pirate groups seen as a growing menace to world security. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_iraq_violence nm/20120223/us_iraq_violence Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:29:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_iraq_violence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20120223/i/r1046331632.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=_IZFb2ske2Ne_mpSq29bUQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Boys wounded in a car bomb attack are seen after treatment at a primary school in Mussayab, February 23, 2012. A car bomb killed two people and wounded 102 in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY) )" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Simultaneous early morning attacks on mostly Shi'ite targets across Iraq killed at least 60 people and wounded dozens on Thursday in one of the bloodiest days of violence since U.S. troops pulled out in mid-December.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_iraq_violence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20120223/i/r1046331632.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=_IZFb2ske2Ne_mpSq29bUQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Boys wounded in a car bomb attack are seen after treatment at a primary school in Mussayab, February 23, 2012. A car bomb killed two people and wounded 102 in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY) )" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20120223/wl_time/httpglobalspinblogstimecom20120223whatiransinspectionrebuffsaysaboutprospectsfornucleardiplomacyxidrssfullworldyahoo time/20120223/httpglobalspinblogstimecom20120223whatiransinspectionrebuffsaysaboutprospectsfornucleardiplomacyxidrssfullworldyahoo Time.com world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:45:00 GMT Time.com - Tehran's rejection on Tuesday of an International Atomic Energy Agency request to visit a sensitive military site signaled grim prospects for diplomacy resolving the nuclear standoff http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_us_holocaust ap/20120223/eu_poland_us_holocaust AP world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:27 GMT AP - Polish and U.S. officials are engaged in intense talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: a barrack that once housed doomed prisoners at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp and is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq ap/20120223/ml_iraq AP world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:02:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20120223/i/r1046331632.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=_IZFb2ske2Ne_mpSq29bUQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Boys wounded in a car bomb attack are seen after treatment at a primary school in Mussayab, February 23, 2012. A car bomb killed two people and wounded 102 in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY) )" border="0" /></a>AP - A rapid series of attacks spread over a wide swath of Iraq killed at least 55 people on Thursday, targeting mostly security forces in what Iraqi officials called "frantic attempts" by insurgents to show civilians that their country was doomed to violence for years to come.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20120223/i/r1046331632.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=_IZFb2ske2Ne_mpSq29bUQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Boys wounded in a car bomb attack are seen after treatment at a primary school in Mussayab, February 23, 2012. A car bomb killed two people and wounded 102 in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY) )" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_train_accident ap/20120223/lt_argentina_train_accident AP world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:22 GMT AP - Argentines desperately searched hospitals Thursday in hopes that loved ones survived a train crash that killed 50 people and sent hundreds to emergency rooms. A stunned government declared two days of mourning, with flags flying at half staff across the nation. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_somalia ap/20120223/eu_britain_somalia AP world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:11:04 GMT AP - World leaders pledged new help to Somalia to tackle terrorism and piracy, but insisted Thursday that the troubled east African nation must quickly install a permanent government and threatened penalties against those who hamper political progress. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_korans_shooting nm/20120223/us_afghanistan_korans_shooting Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:59:20 GMT Reuters - The two NATO troops killed by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform were Americans, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120223/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_eu_canada_tarsands nm/20120223/canada_us_eu_canada_tarsands Reuters world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:44:30 GMT Reuters - Canada hailed a European Union decision to not classify tar sands crude as more polluting than oil from other sources as "a victory for science", but hinted at trade action if the EU did end up singling out the oil sands later. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120223/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_politics ap/20120223/as_australia_politics AP world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:13:54 GMT AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by Kevin Rudd, the colleague she ousted in a Labor Party coup nearly two years ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120222/wl_csm/470768 csm/20120222/470768 The Christian Science Monitor world Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:20:40 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - London is considered the most spied-on city in the world, courtesy of its ubiquitous CCTV cameras, purportedly there to reduce crime. But according to a recent report, there's been little or no change in London's crime rates since they were more widely installed in the mid 1980s. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20120223/wl_time/08599210734800 time/20120223/08599210734800 Time.com world Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:45:00 GMT Time.com - In the face of continuing bloodshed in their homeland, one anti-Assad group courts the regime's allies in the Syrian business community and Moscow. Is it all in vain? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120222/wl_csm/470742 csm/20120222/470742 The Christian Science Monitor world Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:09:26 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - After four days of daily protests, some violently dispersed, Spain is bracing for a cycle of social unrest against the harshest austerity measures in decades. At stake is not only Spain’s economic recovery, but that of the European Union.