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Kerry downplays Syria government's gains
LA Times:In Jordan for talks with the pro-opposition Friends of Syria bloc, he calls Bashar Assad's military advances 'very temporary.'AMMAN, Jordan — Recent battlefield advances by the Syrian...
Sources: LA Times, Washington Post, CBS News, ABC News, USA Today...
In Britain, terrorism suspected in man's hacking death
LA Times:Two assailants slashed their victim to death near a military barracks in Woolwich, in southeast London, witnesses say.
Sources: LA Times, The Boston Globe, CBS News, Washington Post...
Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
LA Times:The news that the secret program's accidental death toll is higher raises new questions as President Obama...
Prostitutes gunned down in Pakistan's Balochistan
CNN:Gunmen shot dead five people, including four prostitutes, in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province Thursday...
Memo From Jerusalem: Israel Is Drawn Into Syria’s Turmoil
NY Times:Israelis are asking what their options are, as if they feel it has become impossible to avoid deeper involvement...
Sources: NY Times, CNN, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Fox News...
Blogger sentenced to Turkish prison for blasphemy
CNN:A Turkish-Armenian blogger vowed to appeal a day after an Istanbul court sentenced him to more than a year in prison...
Blundering into another war?
CNN:Barry Blechman has seen the U.S. involved in many wars, some of which have taken very bad turns. He says we must think long and hard before engaging militarily...
Lebanon: 16 killed in clashes over Syria
CNN:Clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left six more people dead in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, Lebanon's state news agency said.
Sources: CNN, The Boston Globe, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post.
Sophia Bush
Heartbreaking ... RT @cnnbrk: Police confirm that the man killed near a military barracks in London was a soldier. on.cnn.com/187DAlZ
Bret Baier
(AP) -- UK police: 2 more arrests linked to hacking death of British soldier in London.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
RT @abumuqawama: U.S. Fears the Fighting in Syria Might Spill Over Into Lebanon, Kerry Says, via @nytimes nyti.ms/10Uy26L
Testing time for Syria’s rebels
David Ignatius
Washington Post Opinions
It’s a rule of thumb in Middle East conflicts that whenever peace talks are announced, each side steps up the fighting so it can grab as much territory as possible before the cease-fire lines are...
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
Los Angeles Times
LA Times Commentary
Though he stands accused of the Boston Marathon bombings, for some girls and women, he's the ultimate 'bad boy.' OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more...
The crisis of individualism
Phyllis Chesler
Fox News Opinions
People who think, write, and speak out, are now being attacked for their ideas, not only on the page, but in very ugly and economically and physically violent ways.
Jack Keane and Danielle Pletka: How to Stop Assad's Slaughter
Jack Keane And Danielle Pletka
Wall Street Journal Opinions
In The Wall Street Journal, Gen. Jack Keane and Danielle Pletka write that hitting Syria's airfields and war planes would be a game-changer—and U.S. forces would not be put in harm's way.
Success: Are We Measuring the Right Elements?
Courtney Jordan Baechler
Huffingon Post Blog
We are constantly measuring the success of women by their salaries and their occupancy of c-suites compared to men. But is that all there is for women? For any of us?