HuffPost World Daily Brief: Mubarak Abuses.. Hero Bus Driver.. Rare Assad Appearance

Monday, June 4, 2012 WAITING FOR JUSTICE: Mixed Verdict Sparks Urgency For Victims Of Mubarak Regime CAIRO -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood – one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule. Emergency Workers Search Smoldering Wreckage Of Plane Crash 'Hero' Bus Driver Praised For Saving Passengers In Freak Accident Top US Official: Iran Sanctions 'Biting' Assad Speaks Out On Massacre In Rare Appearance Boats Set Sail For Queen's Jubilee BLOG POSTS Marcos Barbery: One Syrian Journalist on Houla, Assad and Why He Hasn't Left From the beginning, journalists attempting to report from Syria confronted perilous threats. This week, in the wake of the Houla massacre, I caught up with one Syrian journalist turned-activist. Michael Kugelman: The Strange Story of Pakistan's Shakil Afridi: From Surgeon to Spy to Militant Sympathizer Washington and Islamabad have each staked out such narrow positions and clung to them so stubbornly that neither can regard the Afridi affair with the wider lens it requires. The strange story of Dr. Afridi is a sad commentary on the troubled bilateral relationship. Saleem H. Ali: Cuba and America: Beyond Cold War Vendettas So near and yet so far -- that's how most Americans like me feel after a visit to Cuba -- the largest Caribbean island and a country that the U.S. continues to treat as a political pariah. Lisa Mirza Grotts: The Reign of Her Majesty the Queen Turns Sixty! Diamonds (and Genes) are a Girl's Best Friend It's hard to believe that Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne sixty years ago this February. In the words of the late historian John Grigg, "Elizabeth II deserves praise for having been a bastion of stability in an age of social and moral flux." Paul Szep: The Daily Szep - Bashar al-Assad

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