BEIRUT — Syria’s state-run TV says authorities have released 552 prisoners who were involved in anti-regime activities during the nine-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. It is the second group of prisoners to be released in a week under an Arab League plan meant to stop the government’s crackdown on dissent, which has claimed thousands of lives. Besides halting the violence, the plan calls for the release of all political prisoners. About 3,500 were freed on Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Syria releases 552 prisoners under Arab League plan for stopping months of bloodshed

Mediators intervene to avert violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of the release of complete election results due later, officials say.

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Bid to avert Congo poll clashes

The fighters from Zintan added conditions to the release of Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi to the fledgling government, a new challenge for Prime Minister Abdel Rahim el-Keeb.

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Libyan Militia Hedges on Handover of Qaddafi

Professing outrage over the release of a United Nations report on Iranian nuclear ambitions, Iran’s leaders escalated their anti-American vitriol on Wednesday.

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Iran Seeks to Frame U.N. Nuclear Report as American Bullying

Honduras arrests 176 police in an anti-corruption purge, following public outcry over the release of four officers accused of murder.

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Mass police arrests in Honduras

An interfaith delegation of religious leaders from Washington didn’t come home from Iran on Monday with the news it had hoped for, but members said they remain optimistic about what they call the “imminent” release of two U.S. hikers. The delegation hoped to return with hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, who have been jailed on spying charges since July 2009. But members of the group said conversations with Iranian authorities led them to believe that the release of the men, who maintain that they accidentally crossed the Iraq-Iran border, could come within days. Read full article > >

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Interfaith delegation returns from Iran without hikers

Publisher Bloomsbury says it has seen a rise in sales following the release of the latest, and final, Harry Potter film.

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Potter-mania boost for Bloomsbury

The US calls for the release of a US citizen it says is being held in North Korea, days before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to visit South Korea.

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US citizen ‘detained in N Korea’

Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” rocker and Washington area native Dave Grohl has a new album and documentary.

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Dave Grohl through the years

Julian Assange has claimed another victim: Ecuador asked U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges to leave the country following the release of a diplomatic cable by WikiLeaks on Monday. In the cable, Hodges suggests that President Rafael Correa knew about…

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Ecuador Ousts U.S. Envoy Over WikiLeaks

Demonstrators called for the release of Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, alleged source for WikiLeaks.

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Protesters arrested near Quantico as rally for alleged WikiLeaks source turns tense

American officials won the release of Raymond A. Davis, who is under investigation for murder, after the families of the victims accepted a payment, a lawyer said.

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American Who Worked for C.I.A. Freed in Pakistan

Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Orissa set fresh conditions for the release of a magistrate they abducted earlier this month.

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New demand in Maoist kidnap case

The Oxford band gives fans less than a weeks notice as they announce the release of their eighth album The King Of Limbs, this Saturday.

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Radiohead ditch pay what you want

The Oxford band gives fans less than a weeks notice as they announce the release of their eighth album The King Of Limbs, this Saturday.

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Radiohead ditch pay what you want