International Glance
Fifteen Syrian students were killed when rebel mortar bombs hit a Damascus University canteen on Thursday, state-run news agency SANA said, as attacks intensify in the center of the capital.
A bastion for President Bashar al-Assad's forces, the city is a crucial prize in a two-year-old uprising that has developed into a war in which more than 70,000 people have been killed.
Mortar strike kills 15 in Damascus University
Ecuador auctions off Amazon to Chinese oil firms
Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering indigenous groups and underlining the global environmental toll of China's insatiable thirst for energy.
On Monday morning a group of Ecuadorean politicians pitched bidding contracts to representatives of Chinese oil companies at a Hilton hotel in central Beijing, on the fourth leg of a roadshow to publicise the bidding process. Previous meetings in Ecuador's capital, Quito, and in Houston and Paris were each confronted with protests by indigenous groups.
Ben Zygier, Israel’s Prisoner X, reportedly revealed IDs of 2 Mossad informants
An Israeli secret agent whose death in Israel’s highest security prison was kept secret for nearly two years may have inadvertently revealed details of one of Israel’s most important intelligence-gathering networks, according to new accounts of the case published Monday.
Why Mossad agent Ben Zygier, who was known until earlier this year only as Prisoner X, was jailed had been a lingering mystery of the case. Zygier spent nearly a year in solitary confinement so intense that not even his jailers knew his real name before he died, allegedly a suicide. Israeli officials added to the mystery by banning journalists from reporting on the case after Zygier was found dead in his cell in December 2010.
5.5 earthquake shakes Mexico City
The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude-5.5 quake hit at 7:04 a.m. (9:04 a.m. EDT; 1304 GMT), centered about 10 miles (17 kilometers) west-southwest of Pinotepa Nacional on the Pacific Coast and 227 miles (365 kilometers) south-southeast of Mexico City.
Singapore mystery death of US engineer stokes speculation
It has been a death that continues to arouse suspicion nine months later, besides spawning tensions across oceans between the United States and Singapore.
Authorities in Singapore orginally said Shane Todd - a 31-year-old engineer from the US found hanging in June 2012 - had committed suicide. But speculation that the nature of his death could have been far more sinister has continued to swirl amid talk of top-secret research, potential threats to US national security, and shadowy links between giant technology firms and the Chinese military.
Israeli court rejects delay on razing settlement
The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected the state's request to postpone dismantling a large, unsanctioned West Bank settler enclave until late 2015, dealing a serious blow to settler hopes to keep dozens of rogue outposts standing.
The ruling could ignite a violent showdown with settlers, who have vowed in the past not to abandon their hilltop stronghold, Migron. Settler leader Shimon Riklin, one of the enclave's founders, told Israel's Channel 2 TV that the evacuation of Migron "would not pass quietly."
Trial of an American Ally: Ghosts of Foreign Policy Past in Guatemala
Former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt is facing charges of genocide, a first for Latin America. It’s also a reminder of the slaughter that U.S. intelligence agencies decided to ignore.
An historic trial is taking place in Central America. Former military dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt is being tried for genocide in his native Guatemala. This is the first time a Latin American despot has faced trial for such charges in his own country.
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