World News - News February 1, 2012

Turkey's Erdogan criticizes American writer (York Dispatch)
Turkey's prime minister has hit back at American writer Paul Auster who was quoted as saying that he would not visit the country to protest its jailing of journalists and writers.

4 British men admit London Stock Exchange bomb plot (CBC News)
A city worker passes the London Stock Exchange building in London, England. Four British men have plead guilty to involvement in a bomb plot targeting the London Stock Exchange in 2010.

Syrians face crackdown with creativity, humor (The Daily Star)
BEIRUT: Throughout 40 years of Assad family dictatorship, one thing united Syrians - the culture of self-censorship, fear and paranoia.

US Muslims seek clemency for condemned US-Iranian (The Kansas City Star)
An American Muslim group appealed Tuesday to Iran's supreme leader to show clemency for an ex-U.S. military translator with dual citizenship condemned to death on accusations of being a CIA spy.A letter Tuesday from the Council on American-Islamic Relations asks Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to spare the life of Amir Hekmati.The 28-year-old ex-Marine was ... (more)

US confirms possible release of Taliban from Gitmo (Peninsula Clarion)
U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an incentive to bring the Taliban to peace talks.

Syria troops push back rebels as UN fight looms (ChannelOne)
Syrian troops crushed pockets of rebel soldiers Tuesday on the outskirts of Damascus as Western diplomats took up a U.N. draft resolution demanding President Bashar Assad halt the violence and yield power.

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