Assange's Special Asylum: Why Ecuador Isn't Nice to Anyone Else - TIME
By Stephan Küffner / Quito | August 16, 2012 | + San Tan / AP British police officers arrest a protesters in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the front of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, on Aug. 16, 2012. Like Wikileaks founder Julian … ROCK N' RIOT: Protests planned ahead of Pussy Riot verdict - New York Daily News
I-95 reopens after power line mishap - Boston Globe
By Sarah N. Mattero Interstate 95 near the Interstate 295 exit in Attleboro has reopened, more than two hours after officials closed it because a truck accident brought down power lines on the road, according to the Massachusetts Department of … Arizona blasted for denying licenses to Deferred Action recipients - Fox News
Echoes of Lebanon civil war as Syrian turmoil spreads - Reuters
* Kidnappings raise fear of Syrian spillover to Lebanon * Syrian conflict works on long-standing local frictions * Most main groups have shown interest in avoiding crisis By Dominic Evans BEIRUT, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Tit-for-tat kidnappings by Syrian … Raw video: Family Research Council shooting suspect arrested - Washington Post
Mitt Romney, Obama camp spar on Medicare plans - Washington Post
Holmes doesn't react to talk of struggling victims - U.S. News & World Report
By P. SOLOMON BANDA, AP CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- The suspect in the Aurora movie shooting showed no emotion in court Thursday as a lawyer discussed a charity's efforts to help victims. James Holmes attended a brief procedural hearing in his case in …
At Least 39 Killed in Wave of Attacks in Iraq - New York Times
BAGHDAD -- A wave of attacks across Iraq on Thursday killed more than 100 people on Thursday, including dozens of women and children at an amusement park, security and medical officials said. The attacks, a series of car bombings, roadside bombings and … Army reports spike in suicides in July, as Pentagon wrestles with problem - Fox News
Suicides among active-duty soldiers in July more than doubled from June, accelerating a trend throughout the military this year that has prompted Pentagon leaders to redouble efforts to solve a puzzling problem. The Army, which is the only branch of … N. Korea could produce dozens more nukes: study
North Korea could build an arsenal of up to 48 nuclear weapons, several times more than it has now, if the communist state were able to step up its program unchecked, a US think tank said Thursday. Six killed and 12 injured in unrest in Sudan's Darfur
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Six people were killed and 12 injured in fresh unrest in Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region, state news agency SUNA said on Thursday. The six died during three days of clashes between residents of the town of Mellit in North Darfur. The police and army had restored order, it said, without giving more details. Mainly non-Arab rebels took up arms in Darfur in 2003, complaining the central government in Khartoum had neglected the remote western region. …
Wave of attacks in northern, central Iraq kill 48
Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a wave of attacks from before dawn until late at night Thursday, killing 48 people and wounding dozens in a deadly show of force aimed at undermining the government's authority. Townsfolk sickened after Peru toxic spill
It began with a loud pop like a tire bursting. A toxic cocktail of copper concentrate laced with a periodic-table's mix of volatile compounds then shot skyward. Doomed Polar Explorer's Famed Ship Found on Seafloor
A research vessel testing its underwater mapping equipment recently made a remarkable discovery: the wreck of the Terra Nova, the famed ship that took British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his fateful voyage to Antarctica a century ago. Violent clashes force Lonmin to warn on production
LONDON (Reuters) – Platinum miner Lonmin warned on Thursday it was likely to miss its full year production and cost targets after losing thousands of ounces following violent clashes between unions that forced it to freeze mining at its South African operations. The miner said eight Lonmin workers and two policemen had been killed in the violence that began last Friday – the deadliest so far in a membership turf war between the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the newer Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) in South Africa. … Taliban say they have infiltrated Afghan forces
The Taliban's reclusive leader said Thursday that his fighters have infiltrated the Afghan police and army and were successfully killing a rising number of U.S.-led coalition forces. More 'spectacular' defections in Syria soon: France
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told AFP Thursday he had information that the regime of embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would be rocked by more "spectacular" defections soon. 
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