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Hot Breaking News about WWII Jewish ghetto victims in Lithuania remembered (AP)
VILNIUS, Lithuania – A memorial ceremony for thousands of Jewish victims of the Holocaust is under way in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
Volunteers are reading the names of thousands of Jews who were forced to live in the ghetto and eventually died either there or in nearby death camps.
Organizers said Thursday that the reading in a Vilnius church will require at least 15 hours.
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Hot Breaking News about Israel says may hold Palestinian taxes on U.N. bid (Reuters)
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Hot Breaking News about Syrian forces kill seven in raids, two police shot (Reuters)
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces killed seven civilians on Tuesday in raids near Damascus and in Homs province, activists said, both centers of an uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
Armed groups also shot dead two members of the security forces, state media and an activists group reported.
In a separate incident, troops defused a bomb planted under a crude oil pipeline near the city of Homs, state news agency SANA said.
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Hot Breaking News about Why Latin America’s Generals Are Lining up for MBAs (Time.com)
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in SÜddeutsche Zeitung.
SANTIAGO – When then-Chilean President Michelle Bachelet decided to deploy troops to affected areas in the aftermath of the earthquake on Feb. 27, 2010, many Chileans were surprised by what they saw. The generals in charge of the operation spoke gently. Unlike their predecessors in the 1970s and 80s, they didn’t threaten anyone with an “iron fist.”
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Hot Breaking News about Europe to face G20 heat on euro crisis response (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Europe will come under heavy pressure this week to stem its deepening debt crisis but talks among the self-proclaimed guardians of global finance are unlikely to yield bold action.
Spreading fears about a Greek debt default and contagion to larger economies in the euro zone have raised alarm in the United States and among emerging market heavyweights about the risk of a potentially major shock to an ailing global economy.
At talks among the Group of 2O major economies and at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, the United States and big emerging economies such as China, Brazil and India are likely to join the IMF and call on Europe to be more decisive.
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