My News Roundups
Short summaries of the top global news. Yasmine Kyriakos-Saad has contributed 5, including:
Parents' Devastation
On Thursday, parents lost two sons to a ferocious storm that swept through Oklahoma. The three year old's body was found in a lake and two days earlier, his 15-month-old brother's body was found too.
Pools of blood in Syria
In the southern Syrian city of Deraa, 23 protestors were killed during anti-government rallies. The protests are directed towards the 11 year rule of President Bashar al-Assad, who has offered to consider reforms, but activists are not satisfied.
14-year-old Bangladeshi girl lashed to death
Bangladeshi girl, Hena Akhter, was suspected of having an affair with a married man. Her last words to her mom were a proclamation of her innocence but it was already too late, the imam ordered the punishment of 101 lashes delivered in public.
Price tag actions against Palestinian property
In what they call price tag actions, last week Israeli settlers damaged Palestinian property in response to an earlier incident in the West Bank.
Pirates on Board
On Tuesday February 8, 670 miles east of Yemen’s Socotra Island, Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean took over an Italian oil tanker. The tanker was travelling from Sudan to Malaysia when five assailants launched rocket propelled grenades.
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