>Activists: Syrian rebels fight Shiites, 60 killed

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels have battled Shiites in a village in the country's east, killing over 60 people including civilians, activists said Wednesday. The fighting highlights the increasingly sectarian nature of the country's civil war. Activists say the dead were mostly pro-government militiamen, without specifying whether the noncombatants had been killed deliberately or were caught in the crossfire. But a Syrian government official denounced the attack on the Shiite-section of Sunni-majority Hatla village as a "massacre" of civilians. Also Wednesday, a Syrian government helicopter fired at least two missiles at a border town in Lebanon, lightly wounding one person in the latest...