http://www.post-gazette.com/nationworld/ National and world news en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:07:28 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283069-455.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A Toledo attorney who sued five online companies that charge money to remove mug shots says he plans to sue in Pittsburgh early next year. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283073-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Scores of same-sex couples crowded Seattle City Hall for a day of wedding ceremonies Sunday, the first day they could marry under new law. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283078-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml For more than two decades, the defining battles within the Supreme Court over social and moral controversies have been fought between two. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283081-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Cuba, especially the eastern third of the island, is suffering an alarming outbreak of cholera, brewed in its decrepit sewer system. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283083-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Mario Monti's surprise announcement late Saturday raised the prospect of more political uncertainty and market turmoil. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283085-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite militias have killed at least 17 people in a large Lebanese city recently in a violent spillover. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283086-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Hugo Chavez was heading back to Cuba on Sunday for a third cancer surgery after naming his vice president as his choice to lead the country. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283087-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials have said. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283094-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml An American doctor kidnapped by the Taliban was rescued Sunday by Afghan and coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283095-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Compensation for private college presidents has continued to drift upward, while the number crossing the $1 million barrier held steady. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283098-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml On a weekend when Pennsylvania political types mingle on a grand scale, even Gov. Tom Corbett had a chance encounter that left him impressed Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283106-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Egypt's main opposition groups rejected President Mohammed Morsi's weekend move to ease political tensions as the country braced. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283111-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met Sunday at the White House to discuss the impending "fiscal cliff." Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1283112-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Bankrupt battery maker A123 Systems Inc., which was awarded a grant to help build U.S. factories, will sell most assets to a Chinese firm. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282595-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Longtime Republican media guru Roger Ailes, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. Petraeus. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282596-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Detective is trying to prove that two men who were executed in Kansas were also responsible for Florida murder of another family of four. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282597-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Four years ago, Barack Obama's swearing-in drew a record crowd to the National Mall. There were 1.8 million people eager to witness history. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282598-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Angered by what she thought was shoddy work on her home, Fairfax, Va., resident did what has become the go-to form of retail vengeance. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282606-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Everything from shotguns, semi-automatic rifles to anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons are making local and regional conflicts more lethal. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282607-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml No one understands how this will turn out, but no matter what happens, the Russia that existed in 2011 will not be seen again. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282608-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml More than a year of relative peace in Mogadishu has led to a property boom -- but one that comes at a bitter price for the poor. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282626-28.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Americans will spend more on gasoline in 2012 than in any other year. The yearly national average price will be about $3.63 per gallon. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282627-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml In Washington parlance, sequestration refers to the dramatic cuts in federal spending that are set to kick in automatically January 1, 2013. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282902-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Several lawmakers wrote the department after new rules went into effect in September saying kids aren't getting enough to eat. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282903-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Yellowstone National Park's best-known wolf, loved by tourists and valued by scientists who tracked it, was killed outside park boundaries. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282906-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Struggling to subdue street protests, the government of President Mohammed Morsi has approved legislation that would reimpose martial law. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282937-114.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Aetna and other insurers that initially fought President Obama's health-care overhaul are reversing course. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282938-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml 190-plus nations agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol for a few more years and to commit to more ambitious actions to reduce emissions. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282939-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml With Syria's civil war apparently near a turning point, Obama administration officials are finding their ability to influence the conflict. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282940-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Regulators announced formidable new barriers to the import of meat from the U.S., a move some analysts saw as retaliation. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282941-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A typhoon that had left the Philippines after killing nearly 600 people and leaving hundreds missing in the south has made a U-turn. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282944-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A host of other knotty tax questions could still derail a deal to avert a fiscal crisis in January. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282945-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml While key tactical decisions are still being made, President Barack Obama wants a catch-all bill. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282946-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Most warnings and a 1978 requirement to create a regularly updated plan for the restoration of "vital services" after a storm went unheeded. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282959-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml In a bid to keep the moratorium in place, opponents of fracking planned to meet this weekend in Baltimore to brainstorm on how to extend it. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282990-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml You're one of the most famous women on earth, and you're jobless for the first time in decades. You'd like to make money, but you don't want Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282991-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A pair of brown leather boots was snatched last week from a doorstep in the suburbs of Chicago. A computer disappeared from a front porch in Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282992-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MIAMI -- Ski, a New York graffiti artist, swirled a can of spray paint, blasting a riot of neon in this once-forlorn slab of Miami called Wy Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282993-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml LOS ANGELES -- The small, open-hull fishing boats head north from Baja Mexico, traveling at night, their navigation lights off. It is an old Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282995-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Correction Appended Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282996-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml DAMASCUS, Syria -- Business has been terrible for Abu Tareq, a taxi driver, so last week, without telling his wife, he agreed to drive a man Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282997-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml OSLO -- After braving a blizzard of denunciation from China from afar over its decision two years ago to honor a jailed Chinese dissident, t Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282998-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Correction Appended Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282999-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml CAIRO -- Crowds of protesters marched on the presidential palace in Cairo on Sunday, registering fresh anger against President Mohamed Morsi Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283000-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A senior Al Qaeda commander has been killed in an American drone strike in North Waziristan, the restive tribal area a Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283001-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml SINGAPORE -- For some time, Goh Joo Hin, a Singaporean company, used the faces of top students to publicize New Moon Essence of Chicken, a c Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283002-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- An American doctor kidnapped by the Taliban was rescued Sunday by Afghan and coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan, Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283003-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BAGHDAD -- The lone Syrian rebel group with an explicit stamp of approval from Al Qaeda has become one of the uprising's most effective figh Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283004-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml CAIRO -- Struggling to quell violent protests that have threatened to derail a referendum on an Islamist-backed draft constitution, Presiden Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283005-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml ORURO, Bolivia -- President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela announced Saturday in Caracas that he would have to undergo another operation fo Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283006-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Monti said he intended to resign after losing the backing of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party, a Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1283007-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MOSCOW -- Russian health regulators announced formidable new barriers to the import of meat from the United States late on Friday, in a move Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282737-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Aides to President Mohammed Morsi floated the possibility of canceling the whole referendum as violent street protests continued. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282738-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Rebel offensive on the airport could shut it down to commercial traffic, cutting off one of the few links country has to the outside world. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282755-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml British media outlets reported that nurse Jacintha Saldanha's death was a suspected suicide. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282756-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Germany's economy is slowing and will probably stagnate in 2013, the country's central bank said, sharply cutting its growth forecast. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282757-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered a review into misconduct by top brass in the wake of investigations involving several leaders. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282761-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The long-exiled leader of the militant group Hamas entered Gaza for the first time Friday, a symbolically powerful visit. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282785-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Some agencies envision furloughs for federal workers, while others are mapping out how to slow hiring and outside contracting. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282787-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The president will accept unlimited donations from corporations -- but no money from lobbyists or PACs -- to finance his 2013 inaugural. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282788-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve a $60.4 billion emergency aid package to assist recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282872-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention th Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282873-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml LOS ANGELES -- Within moments of the announcement on Friday that the Supreme Court would hear two cases relating to same-sex marriage, gay a Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282874-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Despite hints in recent days that President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner might compromise on the tax rate to be pai Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282875-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- President Obama's finance team is offering corporations and other institutions that contribute $1 million exclusive access to Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282877-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml TOKYO -- Shintaro Ishihara has been a rare, flamboyant presence in Japan's otherwise drab political world for half a century. A novelist tur Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282364-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. dropped to an estimated 11.1 million last year from a peak of 12 million in 2007. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282369-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A Taliban suicide bomber tried to assassinate the influential new chief of Afghanistan's intelligence service. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282370-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Liu Xia is the wife of jailed activist, Liu Xiaobo. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282376-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml When Khaled Meshaal crosses into the Gaza Strip at noon today, it will be the Hamas leader's first trip to the coastal territory. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282385-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The U.S. Senate repealed a trade sanction imposed 38 years ago, replacing it with a modern-day punishment for human rights abuse. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282386-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Software company founder John McAfee was hospitalized Thursday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282387-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The Tazreen factory supplied clothes to Wal-Mart, Sears and other retailers in Europe and United States. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282388-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml With the support of the United States, Lakhdar Brahimi is mounting a diplomatic push for a brokered agreement to remove Syria's president. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282396-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Morsi's referendum on an Islamist-backed constitution has prompted deadly street battles between his supporters and their opponents. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282426-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Apple plans to join a small but growing number of companies that are bringing some manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282427-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., surprised colleagues Thursday by saying he will resign the Senate to run the Heritage Foundation. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282431-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama have opened lines of communication that could produce a deal later this month. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282433-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Gen. Lloyd Austin has been tapped to lead the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282435-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Marijuana possession became legal under state law Thursday, the day a measure approved by voters to regulate marijuana took effect. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282443-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Hundreds of same-sex couples started picking up marriage licenses Thursday as a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage took effect. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282456-28.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The unemployment rate in the U.S. fell to 7.7 percent in November, down from 7.9 percent in October. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282537-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would enter the national debate over same-sex marriage, agreeing to hear a pair Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282538-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Supreme Court justices tend to say they are not influenced by public opinion. But they do sometimes take account of state-by-state trends, a Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282539-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml CHICAGO -- When did nuns become funny? Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282540-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- They found her, one leg curled under the other, in the back seat of a van at Longview Lake, a white plastic bag over her Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282542-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MILAN -- The secretary of Italy's largest political party said Friday that the technocratic government of Prime Minister Mario Monti had run Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282543-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml CAIRO -- Supporters and opponents of the government of President Mohamed Morsi staged competing demonstrations on Friday after noon prayers, Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282544-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew here on Friday for a brief, valedictory visit that contrasted ca Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282545-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- The long exiled leader of the militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshal, entered Gaza for the first time on Friday, a symboli Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282546-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A public scare over a toxic cloud that formed Thursday prompted the evacuation of offices, schools and the central train station in Buenos A Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282547-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A South Sudanese online journalist was shot and killed late Wednesday outside his home in the capital, Juba, according to the Committee to P Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282548-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Gunmen killed a news anchor employed by a local affiliate of a Russian state television channel in Nalchik, a town in the North Caucasus reg Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282549-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml ASHULIA, Bangladesh -- The fire alarm shattered the monotony of the Tazreen Fashions factory. Hundreds of seamstresses looked up from their Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282550-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BEIRUT, Lebanon -- As fighting raged in the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and gunfire could be heard from the city center, rebels Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282551-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The factory where 112 garment workers died in a fire should have been shut down months ago. The fire department refused Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282552-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml AMSTERDAM -- From where the two rights advocates sit, having tea in an old-fashioned high-ceilinged restaurant in Amsterdam's central train Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282553-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml GENEVA -- Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, expressed alarm on Friday at the rising casualty toll in Egypt Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282554-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MANILA -- The death toll from the typhoon that tore through the southern Philippines this week rose past 450 on Friday with over 500 still m Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500