THE GUARDIAN Top Stories, Feb 21, 2012

• S and Nato apologise for Qur'an burning at Afghanistan airbase

  Officials issue speedy apology to protesters over 'error' that caused incineration of religious books at Bagram military airbase
  • 'Qur'an burning' at Bagram base sparks protest

• Syrian forces intensify attack on Homs

  
  Activists say shelling has killed 16 people but did not result in expected military offensive aimed at retaking rebel-held city
  • Iran threatens pre-emptive action

• Strauss-Kahn quizzed on sex allegations

  
  Former head of the IMF, who has suffered a dramatic fall from grace since May 2011, is being interrogated by French police

Americas

• Honduras jail fire is sign of chaos in the original banana republic

  
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  The Comayagua fire has highlighted the dysfunctional state's dismal cycle of corruption, poverty, crime and political violence
  • Honduras prison fire victims' relatives storm morgue – video
  • Honduras prison fire relatives storm morgue – in pictures
  • Honduras prison fire relatives storm morgue

• Eyewitness: Beija-Flor samba school

  
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  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

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Europe

• Greek relief over bailout fails to soothe anger from voters

  
  21 Feb 2012: Prime minister Lucas Papademos cites 'historic day' but other parties cite €130bn deal as delay tactic that does stop default
  • Greeks will suffer for five years as part of resolving eurozone crisis
  • Six key elements of the bailout deal
  • Tuesday: the action as it happened

• Greeks will suffer for five years as part of resolving eurozone crisis

  
  21 Feb 2012: Scale of cuts required to implement rescue package prompted analysts to raise spectre of another debt crisis later this year
  • Relief over bailout fails to soothe anger from voters
  • Six key elements of the bailout deal
  • Tuesday: the action as it happened

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Africa

• Somalia: UK weighs up air strikes against rebels

  
  21 Feb 2012: Fears over piracy and al-Shabaab insurgents lead Britain and other EU countries to consider air strikes on logistical hubs
  • Al-Shabaab: the Somali militant group recruiting young Britons to its ranks

• Congo embassy workers claim asylum in UK

  
  20 Feb 2012: Three senior diplomats resign and claim asylum after accusing Congolese government of presiding over 'climate of terror'
  • Catherine Ramos: Congo is torturing citizens who have been refused asylum in the UK
  • Congo's opposition leader holds own inauguration ceremony
  • Congo supreme court upholds Joseph Kabila's election victory

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China

• Apple faces its 'Nike moment' over working conditions in Chinese factories

  
  

  Apple contractor Foxconn raises wages by 25% after reports of long hours for the hundreds of thousands of staff in China. ByCharles Arthur and agencies
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• Boost for Hollywood studios as China agrees to ease quota on US films

  Limit currently set at 20 blockbusters a year to be raised to 34 – but additional movies must be 3D or Imax versions
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Middle East

• Somalia: UK weighs up air strikes against rebels

  
  21 Feb 2012: Fears over piracy and al-Shabaab insurgents lead Britain and other EU countries to consider air strikes on logistical hubs
  • Al-Shabaab: the Somali militant group recruiting young Britons to its ranks

• Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan ends 66-day hunger strike

  
  21 Feb 2012: Adnan agrees to start taking food immediately, after deal reached for his release from Israeli custody on 17 April

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