France tightens embassy security over cartoons ,Syrian air strikes hit petrol station, killing dozens,GM corn to cancer

FRANCE

France tightens embassy security over cartoons

A day after a French satirical weekly published incendiary cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, security was tightened at French missions across the Muslim world amid growing calls for an international law against religious defamation.

• France to close embassies in fear of cartoon backlash
• Punishing blasphemers: New calls on an old issue
• French paper risks Muslim anger with prophet cartoons

SYRIA

Syrian air strikes hit petrol station, killing dozens

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AGRICULTURE

France to probe study linking GM corn to cancer

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