| Sun, 20 May 2012 Fresh tension in Lebanon after troops kill cleric
| Beirut: Lebanon slipped deeper into turmoil yesterday as troops shot dead a Sunni cleric and his companion when their convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in northern Lebanon. | Shaikh Ahmad Abdul Wahid, a Sunni cleric, and his companion Khalid Miraib, both members o... | Fighting breaks out in restive Damascus district
| Beirut: A restive district of the Syrian capital that has been a hotbed of dissent against President Bashar Al Assad was rocked by fighting overnight Saturday between government forces and army defectors, opposition groups said yesterday. | The Local Coordination Comm... | UN under fire amid 'massacre'
| A ROCKET-PROPELLED grenade exploded near a team of UN observers as almost 50 people were killed overnight in Syria. | No one was hurt in the Douma blast, which came as UN truce mission head Major General Robert Mood and peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous were leading a ... | UN human rights chief visits Zimbabwe
| AP | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has arrived in Zimbabwe on the first mission to the troubled southern African nation by the world rights chief. | Officials say Pillay's weeklong trip is at the invitation of the coalition government formed in 200... | Schoolboy with kidney ailment beaten up by eight older pupils
| Dubai: In yet another incident of violence in schools, a grade five boy was allegedly beaten by eight pupils on the campus of Al Hesn Private School in Al Muhaisnah, Dubai. | The nine-year-old Emirati boy, Yousuf Yaqoub Abdul Rahman, was allegedly assaulted by student... | Syria: Bomb strikes near UN officials
| A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior UN officials toured the area, the latest incident in which the unarmed observer mission has nearly been caught up in the country's bloodshed. | No casualties were reported in the blast, which... | New asylum-seeker boat load biggest in two years
| THE biggest asylum-seeker boat load to arrive in more than two years has been picked up in Australian waters carrying 175 people. | Customs and Border Protection last night confirmed it had intercepted an asylum-seeker vessel northwest of Christmas Island after it sou... | Labor to ease immigration restrictions on health grounds
| THE Gillard government is set to ease immigration laws to admit more foreigners with medical conditions and disabilities. | In a show of compassion amid the border protection debate, the government is changing the way it decides whether impaired foreigners would undul... | |
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