SYRIA: Troops continue deadly crackdown.
Syrian troops shelled a restive district and conducted sweeping raids Saturday, killing at least three people one day after 40 were reported to have died in one of the deadliest crackdowns in months in the country’s uprising, activists said.
The violence prompted strong criticism from the Arab League, which issued a statement expressing “disgust” at Friday’s killings. An Arab League committee was set to meet today in Qatar with a Syrian delegation over ways to solve the crisis stemming from the 7-month uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime.
LIBYA: Wounded flown to U.S. for treatment.
A U.S. military plane flew more than 20 Libyans wounded in the country’s eight- month civil war to the United States for treatment on Saturday.
Thousands have been wounded in the fight to topple Moammar Gadhafi, and Libya’s new leaders say caring for them is a critical need.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Gene Kretz, says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton initiated the evacuation after visiting a Tripoli hospital last week.
Denver Post wire services
