A strong earthquake of magnitude-6.8 struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.
Strong aftershock strikes quake-hit Myanmar
The U.S. Geological Society is reporting a 5.8-magnitude aftershock has hit northern Myanmar hours.
Sri Lanka's opposition calls prisoner deaths 'cold-blooded massacre,' wants parliament probe
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s main opposition party has described the death of 27 inmates after a prison riot as a “cold-blooded massacre” and demanded a parliamentary investigation into the incident. Authorities have said the prisoners died in a shootout.
Syria opposition sign initial deal to form new body: delegate
DOHA (Reuters) – Syrian opposition groups have signed an initial agr eement to form a new coalition of forces fighting to end the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian delegate at talks in Doha said on Sunday. "An initial deal has been signed. The evening session will be for electing the president of the body and his deputy," Ali Sadreddine al-Bayanouni, a Muslim Brotherhood delegate at the talks, told reporters. The new body, made up of groups inside and outside Syria, would be called the National Coalition for Opposition Forces and the Syrian Revolution, he added. … Syrian helicopters bomb border area near Turkey
Syrian activists say regime forces have attacked a border area with Turkey using helicopters and artillery after rebels captured a crossing point. Strong earthquake strikes northern Myanmar; bridge, gold mine collapse, about 12 feared dead
YANGON, Myanmar – A strong earthquake struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.
Bomb kills Afghan family including hours-old baby
KABUL (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed a family of six, including a baby born just hours before, in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, local officials said. The family was leaving a maternity hospital in Khost province in a pick-up truck when the bomb exploded, said a statement from the office of the provincial governor. “A pregnant woman was taken by her family to a hospital last night at 10 p.m, and they were making their way home in the morning with their newly born baby when the bomb hit,” said Zarmaeed Mokhlis, governor of Khost’s Sabari district. …
Greece votes on budget to unlock aid
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece is expected to approve a 2013 budget on Sunday that includes unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes so it can receive an international aid payment and avoid insolvency. The parliamentary vot e is a test of confidence in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' three-party coalition government as it tries to steer the country through a debt crisis and out of a five-year recession. … Syria helicopters bomb rebel area near Turkey border: activists
AMMAN (Re uters) – Syrian helicopters and artillery bombarded the Ras al-Ain area near the border with Turkey days after Free Syrian Army rebels captured it during an advance into the northeast, opposition campaigners said. Helicopters fired rockets at a grain storage area near the village of Tal Halaf and shells hit the border crossing in the northeastern oil-producing province of Hasaka, home to a large proportion of Syria's Kurdish minority, 600 km (375 miles) from Damascus, the activists told Reuters. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens) 
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