Europe’s Cold Snap Claims More Victims, Travel Hit (reuters)
Reuters – Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday and brought widespread disruption to transport services, with warnings that the chilling temperatures would remain into next week. Read more
Bahrain Opposition Launch Week-long Rally For Reform (reuters)
Reuters – Bahraini opposition parties, launching a week-long ‘sit-in’ for political reforms at a mass rally, swore on Sunday to take their campaign to the centre of last year’s democracy protest in the capital Manama. Read more
Massacre In Syria: Reports Of Hundreds Killed In Homs, While Diplomats Fiddle At The U.n. (time.com)
Time.com – Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a “horrific massacre” targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising. Read more
Egypt: Can’t Influence Democracy Groups Probe (ap)
AP – Egypt’s foreign minister insisted Sunday that the government can’t intervene in an investigation of foreign-funded pro-democracy organizations that is straining ties with the United States, but underlined Cairo’s commitment to the relationship with Washington. Read more
Hrw Calls For Palestinian Residency Rights (ap)
AP – A Gaza-born woman recently sneaked into her native land through a smugglers’ tunnel because the legal route was blocked. A car mechanic who settled in the West Bank 15 years ago to raise a family lives in fear of deportation because his ID card says he’s originally from Gaza. Read more