Tuesday, May 29, 2012

HuffPost World Daily Brief: Houla Massacre.. Al Qaeda Leader Killed.. Italian Quake

Tuesday, May 29, 2012
BEIRUT — The U.N.'s human rights office on Tuesday added grim new details about the massacre of more than 100 people in a rural area in Syria last week, saying that most of the dead were shot at close range, some of them women and children killed in their homes.
Second Deadly Italian Quake In 10 Days
Mexican Drug Cartel Suspected Of Attack On Transnational Company
Senior Al Qaeda Leader Killed
Europe, Australia Begin Expelling Syrian Diplomats
Inside Honduras' Deadly Prisons
BLOG POSTS
Kathy Huang: Tales of the Waria: Inside Indonesia's Third-Gender Community
I had no idea that transgender people could live so openly in Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Muslim population. Like many Americans I had this notion of Islam as being particularly unforgiving toward sexual minorities. How could a community of warias possibly exist?
Glenn McMahon: Eurovision Gave Human Rights a Platform in Azerbaijan
With the English delegation once again returning home from Eurovision with its tail between its legs following a dismal result, calls will only grow louder to pull out of the competition altogether. However, for the more conscientious among us this year's competition has served as far more than just a trashy manufactured pop-fest and it could do so again in the future.
Robert Kuttner: As Goes Greece
Historians will look back on the spring of 2012 as moment when Europe's institutions and leaders either failed to contain a deepening crisis -- or as a time when leadership grasped the common stakes and rose to the occasion.
Yoani Sanchez: Mariela Castro and the Future
She is the daughter of the man who inherited the presidency of my country through blood, that same country where my father years ago lost his profession as a train engineer.
Tom Engelhardt: How to Forget on Memorial Day
Quiz Americans and a surprising number undoubtedly won't have thought about the "memorial" in Memorial Day at all -- especially now that it's largely a marker of the start of summer and an excuse for cookouts.
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