STRASBOURG, France, April 16 - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Monday that Russia had violated the rights of relatives of thousands of Poles who were killed by the Soviet secret police in 1940, and described the Katyn massacre as a “war crime”.
[FULL ARTICLE]KABUL, April 15 - Heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattled Kabul on Sunday as Afghanistan’s Taliban launched a “spring offensive” with multiple attacks targeting Western embassies, the NATO force’s headquarters and the parliament building.
[FULL ARTICLE]SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 15 - The Mexican help wanted ads offer a quick $500 for a simple job – drive a car into California on an errand for an “important business” organization.
[FULL ARTICLE]AMAKO, April 15 - A Swiss woman who had stayed in the northern Malian town of Timbuktu after it was captured by Tuareg and Islamist rebels was taken from her house by unidentified gunmen on Sunday, a witness and several sources in the town said.
[FULL ARTICLE]BEIRUT, April 15 - Syria’s ceasefire increasingly was under threat on Sunday as the government vowed a crackdown on a wave of “terrorist attacks” and its forces shelled Homs on the day the first U.N. peace monitors entered the country.
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