(8 stories) Tentative Deal Reached to Preserve Cut in Payroll Tax

World News - News February 15, 2012 See World News Weather Tentative Deal Reached to Preserve Cut in Payroll Tax (Toronto News.Net) Members of a House-Senate committee charged with writing a measure to extend a payroll tax reduction and provide added unemployment benefits reached a tentative agreement Tuesday evening, with Republicans and Democrats claiming a degree of political victory in a fight with significant election-year implications. More than 300 killed in Honduras prison fire, authorities say (Medincine Hat News) An injured inmate is carried away after a fire broke out at the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, a town 90 miles north of the Central American country's capital, Tegucigalpa, early Wednesday, Feb. Honduran official says prison fire has killed at least 272 inmates; many burned to death (Brandon Sun) Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutors' office, gave the death count to reporters in a radio news conference early Wednesday. Israeli ambassador says Thai bombs similar to ones used in India, Georgia attacks (Penticton Herald) The homemade "sticky" bombs discovered in a Bangkok house after an accidental blast were similar to devices used against Israeli Embassy targets in India and Georgia, Israel's ambassador said Wednesday, building on his country's claims the incidents are part of a covert terror campaign by Iran. Muslim group boss: No Syria military intervention (WHIO) The international community must rule out military intervention as a solution to the Syrian crisis, the leader of a global Islamic group said Wednesday. Israeli minister: Iran wants to be superpower (The San Diego Union-Tribune) Silvan Shalom told reporters after meeting U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Iran would like to change the types of regimes in the Middle East and take control of all the oil fields in the region as part of its quest for power. U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,771 (WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg) A U.S. soldier walks past by a damaged vehicle at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan. China's vice president to meet with Obama (Click Orlando) President Barack Obama welcomed China's presumptive premier at the White House Tuesday but also set the tone for future relations between the two world powers. More World News News...

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