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Marie Colvin (left) and Remi Ochlik (right) were killed in Homs,
Syria, Wednesday, opposition activists and a French government official
said.
In a news report aired by U.K. broadcaster ITN on Tuesday, Colvin talked about the situation in Homs and its Baba Amr suburb.
In a news report aired by U.K. broadcaster ITN on Tuesday, Colvin talked about the situation in Homs and its Baba Amr suburb.
"There are snipers all around Baba Amr on the high buildings," Colvin said. "I think the sickening thing is the complete merciless nature ... they are hitting civilian buildings absolutely mercilessly, without caring. The scale of it is just shocking."
Speaking to BBC News Tuesday, Colvin compared the situation in Baba Amr to the massacre of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war in 1995, when Serb forces killed more than 7,000 Muslims.
She said there were 28,000 living in Baba Amr and "they are here because they can't get out."
Colvin told the BBC that she had counted 14 shells falling on the suburb within 30 seconds early Tuesday morning.
She spoke about watching a 2-year-old child dying from shrapnel wounds in a makeshift clinic in an apartment, saying it was "absolutely horrific."
"The doctor just said 'I cannot do anything.' His little tummy just kept heaving until he died," Colvin told the BBC. The child was among a "constant stream" of injured civilians coming to the apartment for treatment.
Kabul embassy issues safety warning amid anger over burning of Muslim holy books at Nato base in Afghanistan
The US has locked down its embassy in Kabul amid violent protests across the capital over the burning of Qur'ans at Nato's main base in Afghanistan.
"The embassy is on lockdown; all travel suspended. Please, everyone, be safe out there," the embassy posted on its official Twitter feed after protests at which demonstrators screamed "Death to America!".
Several people were wounded on Wednesday, according to witnesses, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered for a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Qur'an were burned at the Bagram airbase.
"The embassy is on lockdown; all travel suspended. Please, everyone, be safe out there," the embassy posted on its official Twitter feed after protests at which demonstrators screamed "Death to America!".
Several people were wounded on Wednesday, according to witnesses, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered for a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Qur'an were burned at the Bagram airbase.
Paradise lust: the man who sexed up America
He had named two continents after himself and thrilled Europe with the salacious tales of what he saw there. But, 500 years on, can we trust Amerigo Vespucci's accounts? Peter Popham discovers the full story
Christopher Columbus didn't know where he was going when he set out
and he didn't know where he had been when he got back. But was Amerigo
Vespucci, who died 500 years ago today and after whom America was named,
any better informed?
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A person who has not one but two continents named after himself is likely to attract his share of jealousy. The Florentine mathematician and navigator who crossed the Atlantic a few years after Columbus, making landfall in what are now Venezuela and Brazil and reaching almost as far south as Patagonia, has been called many names over the years, a deliberate liar, a "faker", a "false pickle-dealer" and much else.
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A person who has not one but two continents named after himself is likely to attract his share of jealousy. The Florentine mathematician and navigator who crossed the Atlantic a few years after Columbus, making landfall in what are now Venezuela and Brazil and reaching almost as far south as Patagonia, has been called many names over the years, a deliberate liar, a "faker", a "false pickle-dealer" and much else.
Dolphin activist cleared in Japan
February 22, 2012 - 3:36PM
A Sea Shepherd dolphin activist, held for two months in jail in the
town of Taiji over an alleged minor assault, has been cleared of the
charge in a very rare finding by a Japanese court.
Erwin Vermeulen, a volunteer with the Cove Guardians group of Sea Shepherd protesting against the Taiji dolphin hunt, was arrested after he was said to have shoved an employee of the Dolphin Resort Hotel.
Erwin Vermeulen, a volunteer with the Cove Guardians group of Sea Shepherd protesting against the Taiji dolphin hunt, was arrested after he was said to have shoved an employee of the Dolphin Resort Hotel.
Report says Somali children used as 'cannon fodder'
NAIROBI, KENYA - Feb 21 2012 13:54
Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab rebels
have forced children as young as 10 to fight alongside them and serve as
"cannon fodder" in battles against government troops, Human Rights
Watch said on Tuesday.
The Islamists have also abducted girls to
help on the frontline and as wives to rebel fighters, according to a
report by the New York-based group.
Parents who try to prevent their children being dragged into the conflict have themselves been targetted and even killed, it added.
"After several weeks of harsh training, al-Shabaab's child recruits are then sent to the front lines, where some serve as 'cannon fodder' to protect adult fighters," the organisation said.
Parents who try to prevent their children being dragged into the conflict have themselves been targetted and even killed, it added.
"After several weeks of harsh training, al-Shabaab's child recruits are then sent to the front lines, where some serve as 'cannon fodder' to protect adult fighters," the organisation said.
22 February 2012
Last updated at 09:45 GMT
Western journalists 'killed in Homs shelling'
Unconfirmed reports from Syria say two Western journalists have been killed in the central city of Homs.
Activists said an American and a French national had died
after a shell hit a makeshift media centre in the Baba Amr area, which
has come under bombardment. Several other people were also killed and wounded, the activists added.
Opposition-held districts of Homs have been under siege by security forces for more than two weeks, with hundreds of people reportedly killed
After two wars, drums beat again over Iran
'When you have heated politics and incomplete control of events, it's possible to stumble into a war,' nuclear strategy expert says
WASHINGTON — The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest
period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops
killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs
estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.
The outcomes seem disappointing and uncertain.
So why is there already a new whiff of gunpowder in the air?
Talk of war over Iran’s nuclear program has reached a strident pitch in recent weeks, as Israel has escalated threats of a possible strike, the oratory of American politicians has become more bellicose and Iran has responded for the most part defiantly. With Israel and Iran exchanging accusations of assassination plots, some analysts see a danger of blundering into a war that would inevitably involve the United States.
Talk of war over Iran’s nuclear program has reached a strident pitch in recent weeks, as Israel has escalated threats of a possible strike, the oratory of American politicians has become more bellicose and Iran has responded for the most part defiantly. With Israel and Iran exchanging accusations of assassination plots, some analysts see a danger of blundering into a war that would inevitably involve the United States.
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