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This photo released by Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV Facebook page, shows a combo picture of three Al-Manar TV journalists, cameraman Mohammed Mantash, left, reporter Hamza al-Haj Hassan, center, and technician Halim Allaw, right, who were killed while covering the battle between the Syrian government forces and rebels, in the Syrian town of Maaloula, Syria, Monday, April 14, 2014. Three journalists working with Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV were killed Monday after the car they were traveling in came under a hail of bullets in the Syrian town of Maaloula, the station said. The Lebanese militant Hezbollah is a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Fighters from the group have traveled to Syria and have been instrumental in helping Syrian troops secure key areas near the Lebanese border. (AP Photo/Al-Manar TV)

Watchdog: Rise in targeted media killings in Syria

Zeina Karam · April 16, 2014 5:12 pm

A three month old white Bengal female tiger cub looks around her enclosure at the Buenos Aires Zoo, Argentina, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Cleo, a captive Bengal white tiger at the zoo, gave birth to two females and one male white tiger cubs on Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentine zoo shows off white tiger triplets

Almudena Calatrava · April 16, 2014 5:02 pm

NKorea complains over barber’s Kim Jong Un poster

Jill Lawless · April 16, 2014 4:57 pm

Ex-editor admits hearing hacked voicemails in 2004

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 4:56 pm

FILE- In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2012, Emmanuel de Merode, Virunga National Park director and chief warden, poses at the park headquarters in Rumangabo, some 60 kms (40 miles) north of Goma, eastern Congo. Park officials say the Belgian director of Africa's oldest national park, a reserve in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, has been shot and seriously wounded. Three gunmen ambushed de Merode on Tuesday, April 15 according spokeswoman Joanna Natasegara. A statement on the park's website said he was traveling between Goma, a main city in the east near Rwanda's border, and Rumangabo at the time Natasegara said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay,File)

Protector of vast African park shot and wounded

Sarah DiLorenzo · April 16, 2014 4:50 pm

In this Dec. 13, 2013 file photo, the Western Wall, right, and the gilded Dome of the Rock, among the holiest sites for Jews and Muslims, are covered in snow.

Israel police disperse riot at Jerusalem holy site

Aron Heller · April 16, 2014 4:44 pm

UN deploys Ugandan guard unit in Somali capital

Rodney Muhumuza · April 16, 2014 3:51 pm

This aerial photo shows a truck burning after a Jordanian air strike on a convoy at the border between Jordan and Syria on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Jordanian military warplanes struck a convoy of vehicles as they were trying to enter Jordan from Syria, the army said in a statement Wednesday, in an unusual move at a time of tensions between the desert kingdom and Damascus.(AP Photos/Ammonnews)

Jordanian jets strike vehicles on Syrian border

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 3:36 pm

UN seeks $274 million for Central African Republic

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 2:38 pm

In this Tuesday April 15, 2014 photo, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete speaks during an interview with Associated Press in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The president of Tanzania is warning armed groups operating in eastern Congo to lay down their arms or risk being hunted down by Congolese and U.N. forces. (AP Photo/Khalfan Said)

Tanzanian president warns Congo rebels to disarm

Saleh Mwanamilongo · April 16, 2014 2:28 pm

Session to elect Lebanon president on April 23

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 2:12 pm

Prominent human rights lawyer detained in Saudi

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 1:35 pm