The White House, after receiving the new assessment from the National Security Council, has decided to provide new assistance to the Syrian opposition, that new assistance will include unspecified military aid.
In the second major attack since April on the Syrian capital of Damascus, two suicide-bombers detonated twin bombs in the al-Marjeh Square on Tuesday.
China launched a manned space mission on Tuesday from the Gobi Desert. The craft is carrying two men and one woman.
North and South Korea are working on terms for working level talks after months of chill, rhetoric, nuclear and missile tests and threats. Those talks may be held as soon as Sunday. The last working level talks occured in February of 2011.