NATO airstrike in Afghanistan kills 27, including women and children

• Israelis arrest two Hamas officials at Jerusalem’s Red Cross office
  REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM –- Israeli police on Monday arrested two Hamas officials who had been holed up in the Red Cross office in Jerusalem for the last 18 months. About two dozen police officers [...]
• Tibetan groups say protesters were fired upon in southern China
  REPORTING FROM BEIJING--At least one Tibetan demonstrator was killed Monday in protests timed for the Lunar New Year in a volatile region of Sichuan province that has recently seen a wave of self-immo [...]
• Rights group: Islamic rebels in Nigeria have killed 935 since 2009
  REPORTING FROM JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Boko Haram, the radical Islamic group in northern Nigeria, has killed 935 people since 2009, the bulk of them in the last year, Human Rights Watch reports. [...]
• Tibetan shooting comes on heels of human rights criticism
  Chinese security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters Monday, killing at least one person, Tibetan activists have reported to the Los Angeles Times. The news comes on the heels of the annual Human [...]
• Nigeria attacks may point to more emboldened Boko Haram militants
  REPORTING FROM JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- The overnight attack on a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano by suspected members of the militant group Boko Haram may indicate how emboldened the [...]