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2011-2012 Syrian uprising:
- The Syrian Army captures the former rebel held city of Idlib. (CNN)
- Amnesty International releases a report detailing wide scale abuse and torture of prisoners held by the Syrian government. (CBS)
Leon Panetta, the United States Secretary of Defense, arrives in Afghanistan to attempt to placate anger over the Panjwai shooting spree. (CNN)
More than 10,000 Peruvian illegal gold miners clash with police in an attempt to gain control over the regional capital Puerto Maldonado. (AP via Google News)

Unemployment in the United Kingdom reaches 2.67 million, the most people since 1995. (Office for National Statistics)

Tropical Cyclone Lua heads towards Western Australia's Pilbara region. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
The death toll from the sinking of a ferry in Bangladesh rises to 110 with at least 61 others missing. (AP)
A magnitude 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan causing a small tsunami that hits the coast of Aomori prefecture on the island of Hokkaido. (AFP via News Limited)
The Belgian parents of children killed in a bus crash yesterday travel to Switzerland to identify the bodies. (Reuters)

The International Criminal Court in the Hague delivers a verdict of guilty in the case of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on war crimes charges. (BBC) (Reuters)
The BBC claims that a "sophisticated cyber-attack" against its online service has been linked to efforts to disrupt its Persian Service by Iran. (BBC)
An American jury finds Virginia Tech guilty of negligence for delaying a campus warning about the Virginia Tech Massacre of 33 students in 2007. (AP via Houston Chronicle)