Pakistan still holds bin Laden family months after US raid

FEB 15 By MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

ISLAMABAD — The family of Osama bin Laden’s youngest wife has asked the chief justice of Pakistan to order authorities to release her children and her and allow them to return to Yemen, nine months after the U.S. special forces raid that killed the al-Qaida founder. Full story

Film by two UA students to be shown in Cannes Film Festival

FEB 13 By SAMANTHA MUNSEY

Two UA filmmakers will have the opportunity to screen their short movie to an international audience in France. Full story

Volunteers reflect on leaving Honduras

FEB 9 By BRITTNY MEJIA

In December, the Peace Corps announced it has temporarily suspended volunteer operations in Honduras while it conducts a review of the safety and security environment, according to a Peace Corps press release. Full story

Growth a goal for Europe’s leaders

JAN 30 By MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

LONDON — European leaders grappling with a stubborn debt crisis reaffirmed their commitment Monday to sign a new pact limiting public spending, but pledged also to spur growth and create jobs in an acknowledgment that austerity cuts alone will not pull the continent out of its economic funk. Full story

Pakistan holds physician with role in bin Laden raid

JAN 29 By MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

LAHORE, Pakistan — A senior American official has for the first time admitted that a Pakistani doctor played a key role in tracking Osama bin Laden to his hideout in northern Pakistan, and called for his release. Full story

Egypt bars US workers from travel, escalating crackdown

JAN 27 By MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

CAIRO — Egypt has barred at least 10 American and European civil society workers — including the son of a senior Obama administration official — from leaving the country in a sign that the ruling generals are extending their crackdown on foreign pro-democracy groups. Full story

Syrian violence climbs as officials prepare an anti-Assad case for UN

JAN 27 By MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

BEIRUT — Dozens of people were reported killed Thursday as violence raged across Syria and Arab League officials calling on President Bashar Assad to relinquish power prepared to take their case to the United Nations. Full story

Embargo on Iranian oil approved

JAN 23 By MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

LONDON — Europe slapped a boycott on Iranian oil Monday, signaling that the Islamic Republic’s second-largest market is likely to dry up as part of a U.S.-led campaign of sanctions that has already inflicted serious damage on Iran’s economy and sharply increased tensions. Full story