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Dubai dazzles in global 2014 party - 01/01/2014

DUBAI- Dubai attempted to smash the fireworks world record as it ushered in 2014 with a bang, as a wave of pyrotechnics swept around the globe to celebrate the New Year. The Middle East hub was...

Egypt turmoil turns tourist hub Luxor into ghost town - 01/01/2014

LUXOR, Sarah Benhaida- Tourists once flocked to Luxor for its pharaonic treasures, but as Egypt witnesses sweeping political upheavals, the visitors have simply vanished from this famed temple city....

108 journalists killed in 2013, Syria deadliest: IFJ - 12/31/2013

BRUSSELS- Some 108 journalists and media professionals were killed around the world doing their jobs this year, with conflict-torn Syria the deadliest country ahead of Iraq, the International...

Clashes kill 10 as Iraq forces clear Sunni protest camp - 12/31/2013

RAMADI, Azhar Shallal- Iraqi forces killed 10 gunmen Monday in clashes that erupted as they cleared a year-old Sunni Arab protest camp, a move likely to fan resentment among the minority community....

Revealed: Vast water store beneath Greenland's ice - 12/30/2013

PARIS, Richard Ingham- A vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland's icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, scientists...

19 Syria rebels killed in fight for air base: monitor - 12/30/2013

BEIRUT- At least 19 rebels were killed in eastern Syria on Sunday in clashes for control of Deir Ezzor military air base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The toll from the fighting is...

Russian train station blast death toll 14: investigators - 12/30/2013

MOSCOW- Fourteen people were killed and 34 injured Sunday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, investigators said, revising down...

Cyber War in Syria Is Accelerating, Study Says - 12/29/2013

Pro-Assad hackers in civil war–torn Syria are targeting military opponents using increasingly sophisticated malware and social engineering attacks, a new report from the Electronic Frontier...

Syria 'unlikely' to meet chemical deadline: UN - 12/29/2013

UNITED NATIONS- Syria is "unlikely" to meet a December 31 deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms out of the country, the United Nations acknowledged for the first time Saturday. The UN and...

Three dead, 265 arrested in Egypt crackdown - 12/28/2013

CAIRO, Samer Al-Atrush- Three people were killed in clashes and 265 arrested in Egypt on Friday in a crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations after the movement was labelled a terrorist group,...
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