Valentine's Day Reads - The Best of Politics, Economics, & Ideas

Valentine's Day gifts for Syria's dictator Bashar Al-Assad from China's Hu Jintao and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. (The Globe and Mail)

• Narendra Modi's critics are fighting a lost battle. (First Post)

• Is Syria's unrest spilling over into Lebanon? (AlJazeera)

• Is China's economy wobbling? (Bloomberg)

• Iran prepares suicide boats for attacks against U.S. navy. (Reuters)