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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has granted an amnesty to his opponents.

According to the BBC, this would apply to all those who committed a crime during the 10-month uprising. 

Several thousands of people have been detained in the past year. 

Countless others have been killed during the protests. 

The official pardon is not the first Assad has granted. 

A luxury cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, hit an underwater rock and partly sunk last Friday night near the Tuscan shore, in Italy, according to the CBC.

Search and rescue teams have been deployed all weekend to find any remaining missing persons. So far five people have died and at least 15 are still missing.

A fatal crash has lead Montreal police to warn drivers that they can be charged even if they have consumed legal drugs.

This new law took action after a 19 year old woman was killed in a car accident in Riviere des Prairies.

A 28 year old male driver of the other car was arrested on Thursday for suspected drug use.

Rwandan politician Léon Mugesera’s deportation is being delayed with the intervention of the Quebec Superior Court.

According to the Canadian Press, he was supposed to be sent back to the African nation on Thursday to face criminal charges.

Charges against him are related to the 1994 killing of more than 800,000 Rwandans.

Despite relentless dedication by the Quebec Liberal government, the Concordia Student Union has far from given up on the fight against tuition hikes. At Wednesday’s CSU council meeting, councilors voted in support of a winter semester mobilization plan meant to combat the proposed tuition hike of $325 per semester for students who are Quebec residents over the next five years.

On the agenda is a March 7 special general assembly to vote for a weeklong Concordia-wide strike. 

The CSU has already booked three locations on campus to gather enough students for a significant mandate.

An award winning French journalist is dead after an attack in the city of Homs in Syria. According to the BBC Gilles Jacquier had just finished interviewing people at a pro-government rally when grenades exploded. The exact number of deaths has yet to be confirmed but Syrian TV said eight were killed.

Jacquier was in Syria preparing a documentary about the recent protests. He was part of a group of 15 journalists who were visiting the city of Homs. They were being escorted around the by Syrian soldiers and police when the grenades hit.

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Just minutes after the polls closed, CNN announced that Mitt Romney had easily won the New Hampshire primary.

The win follows a slim victory by Romney in last week’s Iowa caucus.

CNN and other media outlets are now calling the Massachusetts governor the front-runner. 

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According to Al-Jazeera, eight people are dead in Nigeria. Also, an Islamic school was torched to the ground.

The attackers sprayed a pub with bullets before escaping on a motorcycle.

While the attackers have not yet been determined they are believed to be a result of a recent fuel strike. 

A doctor said the victims included five policemen and a 10 year-old girl.

On Monday Nigerians took to the streets to protest the recent removal of fuel subsidies. On January first the cost of fuel nearly doubled after President Goodluck Jonathan removed fuel subsidies.

Nigeria is plagued with protests after a government decision to end fuel subsidies.

According to Al Jazeera  protesters set the secretary of state’s office ablaze.  Tear gas and ammunition were deployed by state officials to clear the streets.  Two deaths and twenty eight injuries were reported by the Red Cross so far.

The lawyer for a Rwandan man facing deportation has made a final legal plea to keep him in Canada. According to CBC, Léon Mugesera is facing deportation to Rwanda to face charges of inciting genocide.

His sixteen-year legal battle was brought all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2005. The Court upheld the decision to deport him.

Mugesera’s lawyer claims that his client’s life would be in danger if sent back to his native country.