World News

• Argentine train slams into station, killing 49 (AP)
  AP - A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station on Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded around them. It was Argentina's worst train accident in decades.
  
  
• Russia warns against 'hasty conclusions' over Iran (AP)
  

  AP - Russia said Wednesday the world should not draw "hasty conclusions" over Iran's most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused Tehran of nuclear defiance.

  
  
  
  
• Air Canada mechanics, baggage handlers reject labor (Reuters)
  Reuters - Air Canada's about 8,600 mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents have rejected a tentative labor agreement with the country's biggest airline, a union spokesman said on Wednesday.
  
  
• Shelling kills 2 Western journalists in Syria (AP)
  AP - Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a French photojournalist — two of 74 deaths reported Wednesday in Syria.
  
  
• U.S., European security officials discount Iran-Al Qaeda links (Reuters)
  Reuters - U.S. and European officials are downplaying allegations that Iran and al Qaeda have recently stepped up cooperation in preparation for possible attacks on U.S. and other Western targets.
  
  
• NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case (AP)
  AP - The trial of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide is expected to transport jurors back almost 18 years to a roadblock outside a family owned hotel in Butare where prosecutors say the defendant decided who would live and who would die.
  
  
• Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.

  
  
  
  
• Grasping at Straws: The Syrian Opposition Appeals to Russia (Time.com)
  Time.com - In the face of continuing bloodshed in their homeland, one anti-Assad group courts the regime's allies in the Syrian business community and Moscow. Is it all in vain?
  
  
• Syria: War Reporter Marie Colvin and Photographer Remi Ochlik Are Killed (Time.com)
  Time.com - A celebrated American-born war reporter and a young French photographer were killed on Wednesday morning when Syrian forces bombed a makeshift media center in the besieged city of Homs
  
  
• Quran burning incites deadly riots in Afghanistan (AP)
  

  AP - Clashes between Afghan troops and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded Wednesday as anger spread despite U.S. apologies over what it said was a mistake.