Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, killing three suspected militants.

Activists say Syrian forces have renewed their deadly, weeklong assault on Homs in the heaviest bombardment the city has seen since the country's uprising began in March.

China says Washington's outrage over Beijing's veto of a U.N. resolution aiming to end Syria's bloodshed won't affect cooperation on other international issues.

Many civilians who have been wounded in their country's violence are unable to get adequate medical treatment -- in part because security forces have taken over many public hospitals, an international aid group said Wednesday.

Yemen's president, who is in New York protected by diplomatic immunity while he receives medical treatment, ordered a crackdown on Arab Spring protesters last year that killed at least 270 people nationwide, Human Rights Watch said in a new report Wednesday.

There's a Persian saying used to describe an under-the-radar political effort: "Driving at night with the lights off." Allies of embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be doing just that as they campaign in Iran's hinterlands in hopes of scoring a comeback in next month's parliamentary elections.