27 January 2013 Last updated at 10:26 ET The mass funeral took place amid widespread anger in Port Said over the death sentences Tens of thousands of mourners in the Egyptian city of Port Said have attended a mass funeral for about 30 people [...]
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Scores killed in blaze at packed Brazil nightclub
January 27, 2013
A firefighter, center, carries a victim after a fire broke out at a disco in Santa Maria, Brazil, on January 27. People cry after a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil on Sunday, January 27. A fire swept through a popular nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday morning, killing at least 245 people. [...]
Bus plunges into Portugal ravine
January 27, 2013
27 January 2013 Last updated at 09:59 ET It had been raining heavily before the crash, reports said At least 10 people have been killed and more than 30 injured when a bus crashed into a ravine in the eastern Portuguese town of [...]
Scores killed in Brazil club fire
January 27, 2013
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French-led troops target Timbuktu
January 27, 2013
27 January 2013 Last updated at 08:41 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. [...]
U.S. getting Egypt wrong again?
January 27, 2013
Editor’s note: Cynthia Schneider is a professor in the practice of diplomacy at Georgetown University; dean at the School of Diplomacy, Dubrovnik International University; and a senior nonresident fellow at Brookings Institution. She is also a former U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. (CNN) — Protests planned around Egypt — particularly in Cairo’s Tahrir Square — [...]
Split vote gives options to Israel leaders
January 27, 2013
Editor’s note: Yossi Mekelberg is associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House and program director of International Relations and Social Sciences at Regent’s College in London. You can find him on twitter @YMekelberg. (CNN) — Elections in Israel always generate much excitement domestically and internationally. However, they hardly produce [...]
Women in infantry: Tough challenge?
January 27, 2013
Editor’s note: Maren Leed is senior adviser, Harold Brown Chair in defense policy studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2011 to 2012, she served as senior adviser to the chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Follow the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Twitter. (CNN) — In the coming [...]
