DUBAI (Reuters) – The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday Saudi Arabia lacked the courage to go through with a plan to send ground troops to Syria, and warned they would be wiped out if they went in.
Firebrand monks a powerful force in Myanmar despite setback
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dark-skinned and bearded men jump a young woman after she prays at a Buddhist shrine. They push her to the ground and rape her. Then they cut off her ear and slit her throat….
Angelina Jolie’s film ‘Unbroken’ finally opens in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” opened Saturday more than a year after the rest of the world in Japan, where the main character endures as a prisoner of war and where some have called for a boycott of the movie….
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Monkey Year inspires kung fu, predictions of fire, disease
BEIJING (AP) — The new Chinese year is the one to go bananas over. On Feb. 8, the zodiac calendar enters the Year of the Monkey – the ninth of 12 animal signs. Plastic monkeys are adorning shopping centers and office buildings, and government departments have been giving out toy monkeys….
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I believe I can fly, c.1930s
Mother decries sentence for Israeli who burned her son to death
Parents of Muhammad Abu Khudair expressed anger that their son’s killers have gotten off lightly.
Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to torture instead of death
The US ally originally sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death by beheading for religious “crimes.”
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