World: World News, International News, Aug 15, 2011

Afghan widows form community on Kabul hill

(Andrea Bruce / For The Washington Post)

Joshua Partlow 3:40 AM ET

The hills of Kabul stand as monuments to men in battle, topped by crumbling forts and rusted tanks, ancient ramparts and gleaming tombs of kings. One is different but no less a testament to war. It is known as Tapaye Zanabad — the hill that women built.

• In Kabul, ‘the hill that women built’
• Insurgents attack Afghan governor’s compound
• Deadly ambush of governor’s compound
• Images from Afghanistan: August 2011
• Full coverage of the war in Afghanistan

Scores killed in attacks across Iraq

Annie Gowen and Asaad Majeed4:59 PM ET

In the worst incident, two bombs exploded in a busy market in a crowded jewelry market in the city center of Kut.

• Violence sweeps across Iraq
• In Iraq, two U.S. mothers with a mission

Trial reopens for caged Mubarak

Leila Fadel and Ingy Hassieb 3:15 PM ET

The ousted Egyptian leader’s trial resumed Monday, with thousands of police deployed to control crowds.

• Bedridden Mubarak faces trial

Life gets easier in Libyan rebel capital

William Booth 1:29 AM ET

Rival capitals have traded places: Rebel-held Benghazi is in better shape than Gaddafi-held Tripoli.

• Images of life in Tripoli and Benghazi
• Libyan rebels claim to have captured more towns

Syria uses gunboats to quell protesters

Liz Sly 12:14 AM ET

The government expands its deadly offensive, shelling neighborhoods in the coastal town of Latakia.

• Uprisings, violence continue in Syria
• Israel planting new mines along Syria border

Checkpoint Washington

• Why no living Medal of Honor recipients in Iraq?
• Former Marine to receive Medal of Honor
• Afghan strategy scores low on report card
• Army suicides hit record in July

Paper: China accessed U.S. helicopter

Reuters 2:56 AM ET

Financial Times reports Pakistan shared information about craft involved in Osama bin Laden raid.

• Bomb rips through hotel, killing 12 in Pakistan
• Gunmen abduct American in Pakistan
• Interactive: The hunt for Osama bin Laden

Climate agenda’s renewed opposition

Juliet Eilperin 2:27 AM ET

GOP resistance to funding means Obama administration will fall short of its international pledges.

• White House mulls stricter smog standards

Tropical storm forms in Atlantic

Associated Press 1:45 AM ET

People in Bermuda installed storm shutters and hauled boats onto beaches in preparation for Gert.

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David Cameron on riots: broken society is top of my political agenda | UK news, Aug 15, 2011

"David Cameron says the riots have put his broken society analysis 'back at the top of my political agenda' Link to this video
David Cameron pledged his government would 'turn around the lives of the 120,000 most troubled families' by the next election as he said his broken society analysis is 'back at the top of my political agenda'.

He made the ambitious commitment in a speech delivered on Monday at a youth centre in his Witney constituency in Oxfordshire, in which he described the rioting as a 'wake-up call' for the country. He said his"

Gaddafi defiant as rebels poised to strangle capital, Aug 15, 2011

"ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi urged Libyans Monday to free the country from 'traitors,' as rebels in the west began to strangle a major lifeline to his capital.
His broadcast appeal was made over a bad telephone line from an undisclosed location. In the following hours, a senior figure in his government showed up in Cairo with his family.
Egyptian sources said Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdullah, identified as Gaddafi's deputy minister of security, flew to Cairo airport with nine relatives from the Tunisian island resort of Djerba."

U.S. military: Wave of attacks in Iraq 'eerily similar' to last year, Aug 15, 2011

"Baghdad (CNN) -- More than a dozen bombing and shooting attacks struck Iraq Monday, killing at least 74 people and wounding 247, officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
It was the worst wave of violence to strike the country in months, taking place on the halfway mark of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
'Today's attacks are eerily similar to the stream of large scale, complex attacks that occurred here last year during Ramadan on Aug. 25,' said Angela Funaro, spokeswoman for United States Forces-Iraq."

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