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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Orlando Echo.com http://www.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:45:27 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:45:27 -0500 30 In the worst violence of the near year-long crackdown by government forces, Syrian security forces have launched a massive attack on the people of Homs. http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203229367/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:09:53 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203229367/cs/1/ A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227892/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:42:46 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227892/cs/1/ CAIRO - Three people were killed in Cairo, and 6 in Suez, as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the death http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208013/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:18 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208013/cs/1/ BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208605/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:29:58 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208605/cs/1/ NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining n http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208431/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:24:13 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208431/cs/1/ AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice has ordered Italy to annul all compensation claims against Germany for Nazi war crimes, saying Rome had breached international laws when its courts allow http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208320/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:06 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208320/cs/1/ TOKYO - Japan's Panasonic Friday predicted staggering annual loss of $10.2 billion, joining rivals Sony and Sharp who have also forecast combined losses of $6 billion. http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207545/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:59:12 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207545/cs/1/ LONDON - The eurozone's service sector has shown some growth, marginal though, for the first time in four months, raising expectations that a recession could be kept at bay. http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207313/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:51:16 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207313/cs/1/ BRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009 crisis. http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207228/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:48:08 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207228/cs/1/ LONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial pressures. http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203206945/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:32 -0500 Orlando Echo.com http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203206945/cs/1/ : An increase in 245,000 payroll jobs was about 100,000 above expectations (at 150,000). But exactly a year ago, the experts were calling for a January 2011 increase of about 140,000 jobs and the ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233193/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:11:09 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233193/ Except that, what really keeps The Scrapbook entertained is the fact that nowadays Acknowledgments are veritable Oscar-award-winning orgies of recognition. They are, in truth, prime specimens of ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233194/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:11:07 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233194/ Profession: Banking consultant Vitaly says he isn’t cold thanks to his hat. He says he's never liked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and voted for the liberal Yabloko party in the ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233185/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:03:41 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233185/ US President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the UN Security Council to take a stand against what he called the "relentless brutality" of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and called on Assad ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233188/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:39 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233188/ Most of those killed in the Port Said football stadium on Wednesday night were crushed in a stampede and the government declared three days of mourning, but protesters hold the military-led ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233187/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:35 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233187/ With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a ham sandwich."I was hungry," he said in an interview with JointMedia News ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233189/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:31 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233189/ Santa Ana - A U.S. Iraq war veteran already charged in the killings of four Orange County homeless men has been linked by DNA evidence to the murders of the mother and brother of a high school ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233186/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:55:50 -0500 IOL http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233186/ More than 200 people have been killed by Syrian forces after a barrage of mortars and artillery was unleashed on the battered city of Homs ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233198/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:48:15 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233198/ ‘It did seem like a lot of weight to lose, but I was determined to do it. Not everyone wants to jump out of a plane, but I really did and I was prepared to do anything to achieve ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233200/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:48:05 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233200/ These women may not have noticed as they chatted along with David Cameron during his swift visit of the Devon based centre, but this picture did reveal a balding patch at the back of his ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233199/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:47:56 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233199/ The Met Office issued a severe weather warning and the AA attended double the usual number of breakdowns yesterday as the exceptionally mild winter suddenly turned into the ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233201/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:47:47 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233201/ During the height of the phone-hacking scandal last summer, David Cameron sent an emissary to Rebekah Brooks, who had been forced out of her job as News International chief ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233202/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:47:41 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233202/ Following Steve Hornsby's discovery of the small blue globules, after a hailstorm last week, some unusual explanations have been put forward about the ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233204/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:47:35 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233204/ She first hit the headlines back in 2010 when she became the first divorcee and single mother to take part in the Miss Great Britain beauty contest in its 65-year ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233203/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:47:25 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233203/ A winner of an Irish competition to resemble the Hollywood superstar George Clooney has left many bemused as the similarity is rather less than ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233205/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:47:17 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233205/ The Tolonews website runs a story on its front page reporting about the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Kabulin this May 23, 2011, file photo. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood/Files ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233191/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:35:35 -0500 C News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233191/ Workers in protective hazmat suits clear the belongings of protesters from the Occupy DC protest movement at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square, Washington Feb. 4, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233190/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:35:32 -0500 C News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233190/ They seem to know immediately if the latest bang means increased danger or if it is just part of the new urban noise that now defines life here. I was shaken awake by a huge explosion near the flat ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233192/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:31:46 -0500 Sky News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233192/ ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has agreed with euro zone partners on how to recapitalize Greek banks after a planned bond swap, but has yet to resolve issues related to labor reform and spending cuts in ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233175/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:35 -0500 Reuters http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233175/ A protester holds a megaphone and a toy gun amongst Syrians demonstrating outside the Syrian Embassy in London Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after Syrian government forces assaulted the city of Homs. (AP ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233177/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:58 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233177/ (CBS News) LAS VEGAS -- Mitt Romney appears to be on cruise control. The Republican presidential candidate is expected to win big Saturday in the Nevada caucuses. Romney was on the stump Friday, ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233179/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:53 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233179/ (CBS News) There are indications the economy is getting stronger. The Labor Department said Friday 243,000 jobs were added last month, the largest gain since April of last year, and the unemployment ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233180/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:46 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233180/ (AP) STOCKHOLM -; A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it. CyberForce used Twitter to claim ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233181/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:43 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233181/ Appearing on "CBS This Morning: Saturday," author and TV host Jane Velez-Mitchell - who has written about her own addiction - talked about the problems facing Hamilton and his relapse. ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233183/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:34 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233183/ By Durosimi Thomas 1605: And they're off with the score at 0-0 after 5 minutes. 1558: With minutes to go Matthew tweets that the stadium is still empty. 1556: Sudan make only one change ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233173/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:14:16 -0500 BBC http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233173/ Thousands of people are marching in Russia's capital Moscow in protest at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's grip on power. It is the third rally since December's parliamentary election ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233171/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:14:11 -0500 BBC http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233171/ The UN Security Council is set to vote on a draft resolution condemning Syria’s deadly crackdown, a day after reports of violence in the city of Homs that activists said left more than 200 ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233196/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:11:35 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233196/ The US Defence Secretary has reassured European allies that Washington remains committed to their security despite an austerity drive, as NATO pushed for new ways for alliance members to maintain ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233197/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:11:24 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233197/ Micron Technology chief executive and chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a US memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231209/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:35:05 -0500 Trade Arabia http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231209/ Violence in Egypt has continued for a third straight day since deadly soccer-related clashes left 74 people dead. In the capital Cairo, police fired tear gas and shotgun pellets in an attempt to ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231201/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:28:19 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231201/ CAIRO -The death toll from street fighting between protesters and the police rose to 12 Saturday as a daylong attempt at truce in the streets of Cairo collapsed into the third night of clashes set ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233184/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:58 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203233184/ Iran says nuclear path unchanged despite oil ban, warns of turmoil if EU oil ban enforced and says can easily replace EU as buyer; Tehran rejects discount on gas exports to ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231205/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:42 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231205/ MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of Russians defied bitter cold in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections in a march against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, and thousands of others staged a rally ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231208/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:39 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231208/ Aziz Tekin, a correspondent for the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat, had the misfortune of becoming a news item himself over the weekend when he became the 105th journalist in Turkey to be ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231206/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:31 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231206/ Catholic leaders from around the world meet next week for a conference to combat child abuse which will include a penitential service but which has already drawn fire from victims' ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231204/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:19:32 -0500 IOL http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231204/ The Met Office issued a severe weather warning and the AA attended double the usual number of breakdowns yesterday as the exceptionally mild winter suddenly turned into the ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231213/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:31 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231213/ Together at last: Non-identical twins Emilie Falk, right, and Lin Backman, left, discovered they have a lot in common after being reunited nearly 29 years after being separated at ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231214/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:27 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231214/ The Prime Minister made the impromptu visit to a branch of Morrisons on his way home to Oxfordshire after spending the day in Plymouth, Devon, meeting Royal ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231215/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:18 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231215/ But just when it seemed like it was ready to move on to dessert it suddenly regurgitated the freshwater pike having decided it was simply too big to go ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231216/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:08 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231216/ The model told The Sun: 'No one seems to believe it, but every day i eat three big meals and I snack on chocolate and crisps all the time. I just have a small stomach. It's a bit like a ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231217/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:11:58 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231217/ The ramblers, who have had free access to the 100,000-acre grounds for centuries, say they are now being stopped by security staff and told to buy ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231218/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:11:46 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231218/ In one episode, future heir Prince William, now the Duke of Cambridge, reveals that despite being one of the most famous women in the world, following her 60-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231219/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:11:35 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231219/ The continuing storm over City bonuses is damaging Britain's reputation as a place to do business, a group of leading international bankers has ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231221/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:11:04 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231221/ A judge has found a widow cannot collect the full value of her husband's $1-million life insurance policy after he died in a plane crash on Vancouver Island more than three years ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231194/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:56:22 -0500 Vancouver Sun http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231194/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed lawmakers to pass his proposal to provide up to $10 billion in aid to struggling homeowners, saying a failure to address the housing ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231189/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:42:07 -0500 Reuters http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231189/ MUNICH (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reassured European allies on Saturday that Washington remains committed to their security despite an austerity drive, as NATO pushed for new ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231188/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:42:03 -0500 Reuters http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231188/ (CBS/AP) MUNICH - Moscow still sees two problems of "crucial importance" with a draft U.N. resolution on the violence in Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Saturday amid Western ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231195/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:36:56 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231195/ More than 3,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during 2011, the deadliest year on record for residents of the war-torn country, according to a UN report. A total of 3,021 civilians died last ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231212/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:33:16 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231212/ Thousands detained Brebesh's death was one of the highest profile killings of a former government official since rebels captured and killed Gaddafi, the ousted longtime leader, in late ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231211/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:33:11 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231211/ BEIRUT - Syrian opposition leaders raised the death toll to 260 in a military assault on Saturday on the ravaged central city of Homs, an attack that they described as the government's deadliest in ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231200/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:49:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231200/ "It's the economy, stupid," was a useful slogan for the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. Of course, it wasn't really true. The Clinton campaign was about much more than the economy. ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227408/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:15:36 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227408/ Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos says Greeks have withdrawn 65 billion euros ($85 billion) from banks since 2009, and have sent 16 billion euros abroad. Fears that Greece may be forced to ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227388/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:07:04 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227388/ MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of Russians have gathered in the capital Moscow in temperatures of minus 20 Celsius for the latest demonstration to demand an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227389/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:06:59 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227389/ Guarded and "soft" sites, such as synagogues, schools and community centers, are under increasing threat by Iran, letter obtained by ABC says; US, Canada heighten security around Jewish ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227399/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:43 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227399/ MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned of a "scandal" if a Western-Arab drafted resolution comes to a vote on Saturday in the UN Security Council, the Itar-Tass news agency ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227400/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:39 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227400/ BEIRUT - More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the UN Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing an ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227401/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:35 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227401/ Sunshine has returned to Israel after a drenched January broke the average in recent years, kicking off February's first weekend with warmer temperatures and a drop in humidity on ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227402/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:32 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227402/ ABU DHABI/DUBAI - Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227403/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:29 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227403/ Specialist Michael Wagnon is seen in this undated handout.The U.S. Army dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face court-martial in the murder of unarmed Afghan civilians, ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227393/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:55:53 -0500 IOL http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227393/ Sanaa - The face of veteran Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to the masthead of the leading state-owned daily on Friday after loyalist gunmen besieged the newspaper's offices ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227394/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:55:49 -0500 IOL http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227394/ A Moldovan dancer has admitted to officials investigating the Costa Concordia shipwreck that she is the lover of the vessel's captain and was on the bridge with him when it ran aground, Italian ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227396/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:55:41 -0500 IOL http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227396/ Miramonte Elementary school principal Martin Sandoval walks out to address the media outside the school in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Veteran Miramonte Elementary school teacher Mark ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227397/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:55:36 -0500 IOL http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227397/ Marine spokesman Nicholas Mannweiler says the blast was reported at 9 p.m. PT Friday in a residence in the base's privatized family housing area, located about 30 miles from the Bridgeport base. He ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231185/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:54:03 -0500 USA Today http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203231185/ PORT MORESBY: Papua New Guinean authorities Saturday began retrieving the bodies of those killed when a crowded ferry sank two days ago in what is thought to be among the nation's worst sea ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227380/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:43:27 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227380/ MOSCOW: Tens of thousands of Russians are set to march through Moscow Saturday, braving freezing temperatures to challenge Vladimir Putin's grip on power a month before the premier stands in ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227381/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:43:24 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227381/ Steve Appleton, who worked his way up from the factory floor to become CEO of Boise's Micron Technology at 34, was killed Friday when his experimental airplane crashed after ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227375/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:42:36 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227375/ The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the Falkland Islands amid heightened tensions between Britain and Argentina over the disputed islands, it was reported ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227370/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:31:41 -0500 The Independent http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227370/ It was an 8% increase in civilian deaths from 2010. 2011 was also the fifth year in a row that the civilian toll has became steadily worse. The report said insurgents killed more than three-quarters ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227372/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:05:13 -0500 USA Today http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227372/ A Syrian woman who says she was injured in shelling by the Syrian government forces, stands at her home in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, Feb. 1, 2012. ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227378/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:04:45 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227378/ (CBS/AP) MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister has warned Washington that any attempt to put a draft resolution on Syria to vote at the United Nations would lead to "scandal." Sergey ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227377/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:04:40 -0500 CBS News http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227377/ Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning is to face a court martial, the US Army has confirmed. Private Manning, 24, an intelligence analyst who served in Iraq, is alleged to have leaked US government ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227369/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:03:47 -0500 BBC http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227369/ Seven England players and Ireland batsman Kevin O'Brien all failed to attract bids at the auction for this year's Indian Premier League. James Anderson, Graeme Swann, Ian Bell, Matt ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227368/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:03:44 -0500 BBC http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227368/ More than 200 people have been killed across Europe as temperatures plummeted to new lows amid forecasters' predictions that the week-long cold snap could intensify. The latest death toll of ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227410/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:02:17 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227410/ US civil rights groups have called on the New York attorney-general to investigate the city's police department, after leaked documents showed police recommended increasing surveillance of ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227412/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:02:10 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227412/ Almost a year since a crackdown began on demonstrations among Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority, thousands of protesters have taken part in marches to demand political reform. The government says ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227413/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:02:07 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227413/ A preliminary accident report released by the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority has ruled out malfunction or faulty equipment as the cause of a light aircraft crash in Sharjah last month, The ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227376/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:36:19 -0500 AME Info http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227376/ TAY BAY HTA, MYANMAR - When Myanmar announced a cease-fire last month with one of the country's most prominent rebel groups, images of longstanding enemies shaking hands across a table were beamed ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227384/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:30:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227384/ WASHINGTON - President Obama received a message last year, purporting to be from the elusive Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, in which he expressed an interest in opening talks that could end ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227383/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:00:32 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227383/ With the UN Security Council due to consider a resolution condemning violence in Syria, a Britain-based rights group says Syrian government forces killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs. ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221089/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:42:02 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221089/ The comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, broadcast nationally on Friday, staked out a hard line in apparent replies to suggestions that military strikes are an increasing possibility if sanctions ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227371/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:38:53 -0500 USA Today http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227371/ Chemi Shalev / Don't knock the media's bias and double standards on Israel Disproportionate coverage is the flip side of disproportionate support for Israel, and thus a critical element in ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221092/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:38:19 -0500 Haaretz http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221092/ Activists protested at embassies across the world Friday against Syrian President Bashar Assad's crackdown on citizens. Rallies in both Cairo and Berlin degraded into riots as people broke ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221102/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:21 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221102/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Qatar on Sunday, AFP quoted Fatah party spokesman Azzam al-Ahmad as saying.According to Ahmad, the two ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221101/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:16 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221101/ VIENNA - Iran's apparent reluctance to let UN inspectors visit a military site near Tehran underlines the uphill task they face in getting the Islamic state to address suspicions it may be ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221099/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:11 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221099/ Israel's blockade of goods coming into the Gaza Strip has been the target of flotillas and a cause for concern among human rights activists and economists alike. But the difficulty of getting ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221098/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:09 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221098/ The pair, seen here posing with their fellow prefects, were members of the elite group known as the Eton Society, founded in 1811 as a debating ... http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221120/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:39 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.orlandoecho.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221120/