SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES SRI LANKAN
A Sri Lankan woman who was employed as a domestic worker was beheaded on Wednesday after she was convicted of murdering an infant in her charge in a case that the Sri Lankan government and human rights groups said was flawed. Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said Rizana Nafeek strangled the infant over differences with its mother. Though she was arrested in 2005, she did not have access to legal counsel until after her death sentence in 2007. Nafeek also retracted a confession that she said was made under duress, saying the baby choked to death while drinking from a bottle.
8 dead as STORM BATTERS MIDEAST
The fiercest winter storm to hit the Mideast in years brought a rare foot of snow to Jordan, caused fatal accidents in Lebanon and the West Bank, and disrupted traffic on the Suez Canal in Egypt. At least eight people died across the region. Parts of Israel were bracing for snow a day after the military sent helicopters and rubber dinghies to rescue flood-stranded residents.
SEIZED ARGENTINE VESSEL RETURNS HOME
An Argentine naval vessel detained for more than two months in Ghana because of a billion-dollar international debt dispute returned to a triumphant welcome Wednesday. Ghanaian courts had ordered the ARA Libertad held in October on a claim by American billionaire Paul Singer, who leads a group demanding payment in full, plus interest – about $350 million – for dollar-based bonds bought after Argentina's 2001-02 economic collapse forced a sharp devaluation of its currency. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered the ship's release last month after Argentina argued that warships are immune from seizure.
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