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Speaking before the Security Council, the former UN Secretary-General renewed calls for an end to the fighting between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces, as he laid out plans to try re-establish an international presence in the country.

Israel's foreign minister said Friday in Beijing that his country hopes to resolve a nuclear standoff with Iran through diplomatic means. China has close ties to both Israel and Iran.

Cardiologist Dr Fawaz Akhras, whose glamorous London-born daughter Asma married Assad in 2000, has also been caught advising the regime on how to respond to graphic images such as the torture of children by Syrian government forces.

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North Korea will launch a long-range rocket carrying a satellite into space next month. The earth observation satellite will be set into orbit between April 12 and April 16, which will coincide with the nationwide celebrations for the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il-sung.

Syrian regime forces pressed their military offensive in the northern province of Idlib Thursday, driving 1,000 refugees across the Turkish border as the bloody revolt against President Bashar al-Assad entered a second year with no sign of political solution.

The pair urged support for UN special envoy Kofi Annan in his bid to gather full Security Council backing for a resolution denouncing the crackdown by Syrian government forces on the opposition anti-Assad movement.

The UN and human rights activists estimate that at least 8,000 people in Syria have been killed over the past 12 months during the regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent. Untold thousands of others have been arrested.

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Fossils collected years ago from Alberta, Canada, have been identified as two horned dinosaurs belonging to the Leptoceratopsidae horned dinosaur family.

In a report titled Locked away: Sri Lanka's security detainees, Amnesty accuses the Sri Lankan government of arbitrarily detaining prisoners arrested under counter-terrorism laws introduced to combat separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Hoping that governmental reform can end a year of violence, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that new, multi-party parliamentary elections will be held on May 7.

For the first time since his arrest in 2009, Iran has admitted publically that Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been convicted of religious crimes.

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron will spend two days together, doing fun things like watching college basketball, but also getting serious and talking about Syria.

Syrian forces are laying landmines on the country's borders to stop refugees from escaping, the Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday.

Amid fresh allegations that LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his 12-year-old son were brutally killed in a close range by the Sri Lankan forces, Indian Premier Manmohan Singh is struggling to contain the sentiments of opposition parties and lawmakers from regions dominated by Tamil population.

The West clashed with Russia at the United Nations Security Council over Syria Monday, as activists and the Damascus government traded blame for a massacre of civilians in the city of Homs.

The top U.S. diplomat urged all countries to speak with one voice ... that the killing of innocent Syrians must stop. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said the regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad has subjected its citizens in several cities to military assault and disproportionate use of force.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday of cynically launching new military assaults while meeting with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan over the weekend.

On Sunday, many world leaders addressed the anniversary of Fukushima, an event that not only brought tremendous sadness but also a debate on the safety and future of nuclear energy programs.

Both sides in Syria's bitter armed clashes have claimed the other is responsible for the killing of women and children in Homs and other cities, after footage emerged of blood soaked and mutilated bodies over the weekend.