By Joseph Logan BEIRUT | Sat May 19, 2012 3:53pm EDT BEIRUT (Reuters) – A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot. The [...]
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Car bomb hits Syrian city of Deir al-Zour – BBC News
At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured after a car bomb exploded in eastern Syria, according to reports. State television said that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber in the city of Deir al-Zour. It is the latest in a series of blasts near security [...]
READ MORE »Bomb at Italian school kills teenage girl, wounds 10 – Reuters
By Elisa Forte BRINDISI, Italy | Sat May 19, 2012 1:18pm EDT BRINDISI, Italy (Reuters) – A 16-year-old girl was killed in southern Italy by a bomb that exploded in front of her school before classes on Saturday in an unprecedented attack that wounded 10 others, one seriously. Officials initially suggested a local mafia group [...]
READ MORE »Fatal School Bombing Stokes Worries of New Italy Violence – New York Times
The explosion occurred near a girls’ school named after Francesca Morvillo, a magistrate who was killed with her husband, Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia judge, by a Cosa Nostra bomb on May 23, 1992, an event Italy planned to commemorate on its 20th anniversary. The bomb went off as students were preparing to enter the school [...]
READ MORE »Obama at G8: We are united on Iran – Ynetnews
The fact that Iran has violated international regulations and is far from proving that it is not trying to achieve nuclear weapons capability is “very worrying for all of us,” US President Barack Obama said Saturday at the G8 meeting at Camp David . Obama stressed that the G8 leaders were united [...]
READ MORE »Suicide car bomb explodes near military compound in Syrian city, government says – Fox News
BEIRUT – A suicide vehicle bomb tore through the parking lot of a military compound in an eastern Syrian city on Saturday, killing nine people in the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security installations, the country’s state media reported. State TV showed footage of damaged buildings, smoldering cars, and trucks [...]
READ MORE »G8 leaders united on Iran and Syria – Irish Times
irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 12:33 Leaders of the major industrial economies met for dinner at the G8 summit in Camp David last night. Photograph: Guido Bergmann/Reuters Group of Eight leaders will discuss the euro zone crisis and other economic issues, including oil market pressures at a G8 summit in the US [...]
READ MORE »Suicide blast rocks Syrian city – The Press Association
(UKPA) – 1 hour ago A suicide car bomb blast has shaken Syria’s eastern city of Deir el-Zour, targeting a military compound in the latest in a wave of blasts to hit the country in recent months, the country’s state media reported. State TV said the blast caused casualties, and showed footage of damaged buildings, [...]
READ MORE »Italian school hit by bomb attack – The Guardian
A bomb has exploded in front of a school in the southern Italian town of Brindisi, killing two girls and injuring five other pupils. The device went off as students were arriving at the Francesca Morvillo Falcone vocational school at around 8am (6am GMT). The school is named after the anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and [...]
READ MORE »G-8 Summit opens at Camp David, as Iran and Syria among top topics – Fox News
CAMP DAVID, Md. – President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria. Obama will have the ear of key players on both issues during back-to-back G-8 and [...]
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