Suicide attackers and car bombs hit cities across Iraq today, killing at least 60 people in apparently coordinated assaults authorities blamed on al Qaeda affiliates intent on destabilizing the government.
Crowds waving Syrian flags and pictures of President Bashar al-Assad gathered today to bury 26 people who the authorities said were killed by a suicide bomber at a busy Damascus crossroads.
Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire today, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end the violence.
Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs city in a campaign to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Arab peace plan circulating at the United Nations.
Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia today, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being involved in the attacks. Israel had put its foreign missions on especially high alert.
Two bombs were defused in Northern Ireland, police said today, blaming dissident Irish nationalists opposed to a 1998 peace deal that largely ended violence in the British-controlled province.
Nine people including Syrian military personnel were killed and 100 wounded in bomb blasts near security service buildings in Idlib, state media said, as a bombing campaign intensified against government targets.
Greek police fired teargas at protesters who threw petrol bombs at two luxury hotels in the central Syntagma square outside parliament, setting the balcony of one hotel on fire.
Two people were injured in separate explosions at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, authorities said.
Britain has not raised its national terrorism threat level nor a separate threat gauge for airports and railway terminals, police said after reports that security had been stepped up at transport hubs.
Car bombers targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad killed at least 26 people In the latest attacks by insurgents trying to tip Iraq back into widespread sectarian violence.
Syria's defence minister was killed in a bomb attack on a high level security meeting in Damascus today, state television said, as the revolt against Bashar al-Assad struck at the heart of the president's inner circle.
Syrian rebels trying to fight off an army offensive in Aleppo said today they were running low on ammunition as President Bashar al-Assad's forces encircled their stronghold at the southern entrance to the country's biggest city.
Bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities killed 32 people and injured more than 100, police and hospital officials said.
Four car bombs killed at least 31 people at street markets in Iraq today, police and medics said, as sectarian violence grows ahead of provincial elections in April.
As Britain gears up for a big Olympic security exercise between May 2 and 9, Londoners are casting a cool eye at the multiple measures deemed necessary to protect the hundreds of thousands of people expected to visit Olympic venues.
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