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Syria Denies It's Shelling Latakia

DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Syrian military sources said Monday that reports the country’s navy was shelling neighborhoods in the port city of Latakia are without merit. Rami Abdel Rahman, president of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London, told CNN at least five people had been killed by artillery fire and heavy […]

Syria Denies It’s Shelling Latakia

DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Syrian military sources said Monday that reports the country’s navy was shelling neighborhoods in the port city of Latakia are without merit. Rami Abdel Rahman, president of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London, told CNN at least five people had been killed by artillery fire and heavy […]

Syrian Forces Move Offensive To Latakia

LATAKIA, Syria, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters moved to the port city of Latakia, where at least 25 people were killed, opposition groups said Monday. Violence across Syria claimed at least 42 lives Sunday, an anti-government group told CNN. Syrian gunships were used, the group said. Among the dead in Latakia […]

U.N. Finds Evidence Of War Crimes In Sudan

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Flagrant violations of international law in the Sudanese border state of South Kordofan mustn’t go unpunished, the top U.N. human rights official said. South Sudan became an independent country July 9 as part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended Sudan’s civil war. Issues such as oil revenue and […]

Japan Commemorates WWII Surrender

TOKYO, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan repeated his pledge of peace Monday during the 66th anniversary of the country’s surrender in World War II. “Our country inflicted considerable damage and pain on many countries, especially the people in Asian nations,” Kan said during a government-sponsored ceremony marking the 66th year of […]

Rembrandt Stolen From California Hotel

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 (UPI) — A Rembrandt drawing, “The Judgment,” was stolen from a luxury hotel in Marina del Rey, Calif., despite top-notch security, officials said. The 11-by-7-inch drawing was valued at more than $250,000 and was taken from the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey when the curator was distracted, the Los Angeles Times reported. […]

Man Sentenced In 'Sex Chamber' Case

HALMSTAD, Sweden, Aug. 15 (UPI) — A court in Sweden sentenced a man to five years in prison for kidnapping a woman and raping her in what officials described as an underground sex chamber. The woman, in her 30s, came forward when two amateur photographers discovered the chamber in the cellar of an abandoned farmhouse […]

Man Sentenced In ‘Sex Chamber’ Case

HALMSTAD, Sweden, Aug. 15 (UPI) — A court in Sweden sentenced a man to five years in prison for kidnapping a woman and raping her in what officials described as an underground sex chamber. The woman, in her 30s, came forward when two amateur photographers discovered the chamber in the cellar of an abandoned farmhouse […]

Gadhafi: Rebels Are 'rats' And 'traitors'

TRIPOLI, Libya, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi lashed out at rebels Monday, calling them “rats” and “traitors” and appealing to his followers to rise against them. In a message on Libyan television, Gadhafi called NATO the “colonizer” and said it “can now only resort to lies,” Sky News reported “The end … […]

Gadhafi: Rebels Are ‘rats’ And ‘traitors’

TRIPOLI, Libya, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi lashed out at rebels Monday, calling them “rats” and “traitors” and appealing to his followers to rise against them. In a message on Libyan television, Gadhafi called NATO the “colonizer” and said it “can now only resort to lies,” Sky News reported “The end … […]