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Yahoo! News: World News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:30:28 GMT
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Over 200 people killed in Syria as U.N. prepares to vote
(Reuters)
 Reuters - More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
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Iran threatens retaliation over oil embargo
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Iran's supreme leader threatened on Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a U.S. newspaper said defense secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb.
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Amid peace bid, U.S. got purported letter from Taliban
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan.
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Cost drives NATO bid for smaller Afghan army
(Reuters)
Reuters - Afghanistan could end up fighting Taliban insurgents with a national army and police force two-thirds the size envisaged, if plans discussed on Friday by NATO defense ministers, trying to balance security needs with budget cuts, gain traction.
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Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west.
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Egyptian Protesters Confront Police After Soccer Riots
(Time.com)
Time.com - Four more die in a day of violent clashes, as anger over alleged police complicity in a stadium tragedy unleashes pent-up frustrations
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Europe says aims to double e-commerce by 2015
(Reuters)
Reuters - European Union competition ministers supported plans on Friday to remove barriers to electronic trade in a bid to spur economic growth and jobs by expanding the single market to the digital world, officials said.
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Syrian activists: 200 dead in government assault
(AP)
 AP - In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday.
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Cuba's Raul Castro visits Venezuela's Chavez
(AP)
 AP - Cuban President Raul Castro flew to Caracas on Friday to attend a meeting with other allies of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who was at the airport for the arrival.
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Lawmakers step up warnings on Egypt military aid
(Reuters)
Reuters - A leading senator warned Egypt's military-led government on Friday that "the days of blank checks are over" as an Egyptian army team huddled with State Department officials to discuss the future of $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.
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Canadian PM to visit China next week
(AP)
AP - Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to the United States, which rejected a pipeline from Canada to Texas.
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Canada PM wants RIM to grow as "a Canadian company"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Canada's prime minister drew an apparent line in the sand on foreign takeovers on Friday, saying he wanted to see BlackBerry maker Research In Motion grow "as a Canadian company" and questioning whether hostile takeovers of key domestic firms are in the country's best interests.
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Australia's Gillard faces new leadership discontent
(Reuters)
Reuters - Growing speculation that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard could be dumped by her party before the end of the year forced senior ministers to rally behind her Friday after a disastrous start to 2012.
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Facebook on collision course with new EU privacy laws
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - With its initial public offering this week, Facebook is roaring ahead. However, new European Union privacy regulations are taking aim at Internet companies' ability to profit through control of personal information â?? the key to their tremendous online advertising profits.
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Bangladeshi Investors Badly Hit by the Stock-Market Crash
(Time.com)
Time.com - The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh's stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows
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A banker's punishment: Sir Fred Goodwin is now just Fred
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - In the good times he was the doyen of British banking. Wealthy and courted by decision makers and knighted by Queen Elizabeth for services to his industry, Sir Fred Goodwin, head of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), seemed invincible.
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