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Deaths in police custody revive Egypt rights fears - 08/28/2013

CAIRO, Sara Hussein- Sherif Gamal Siyam spent his last minutes in an Egyptian police van, suffocating to death after tear gas was fired into the vehicle taking him to the Abu Zaabal jail. He had been...

Stone age hunters brought home the bacon: study - 08/28/2013

PARIS- Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Europe may have been trading with settled farmers as long as 7,000 years ago -- acquiring pigs to supplement their hauls of wild boar, scientists said Tuesday. A...

Syria okays UN chemical probe, US eyes military action - 08/26/2013

DAMASCUS- UN experts are Monday to start investigating a suspected Syrian chemical attack as a sceptical Washington weighing military action and coordinating with allies said Syria's acceptance of...

Mubarak back in court, Brothers trial adjourned - 08/26/2013

CAIRO, Haitham El-Tabei- Egypt's toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak appeared in court Sunday for the first time since his release to house arrest, as a separate court adjourned a hearing of Muslim...

Egypt's Mubarak, Brotherhood chiefs due in court Sunday - 08/25/2013

CAIRO- Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak returns to court Sunday to face charges over protester deaths, as Muslim Brotherhood leaders make their first appearances in court on similar but...

Four dead in Libya violence: PM - 08/25/2013

TRIPOLI- Clashes between members of a western Libyan tribal group and people in the town of Zawiya have left four dead, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said Saturday. Violence, including political...

Obama, Cameron weigh Syria chemical weapons response - 08/25/2013

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed their grave concern Saturday about the "increasing signs" of a major chemical weapons attack in Syria. A White...

US photojournalist reveals horrors of Syria captivity - 08/24/2013

WASHINGTON, Mathieu Rabechault- A US photojournalist who escaped from Syrian rebels after seven months in captivity revealed details of his ordeal Friday and spoke of his anguish at leaving a fellow...

UN Council seeks 'clarity' on Syria chem weapons claim - 08/22/2013

NEW YORK- UN Security Council members are seeking "clarity" on opposition claims that Syrian troops used chemical weapons in an attack near Damascus, Argentina's UN envoy, the council president, said...

650 dead in 'chemical' bombing near Damascus: opposition - 08/21/2013

"Over 650 confirmed dead result of deadly chemical weapon attack in Syria," the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Twitter, as videos showed medics attending to suffocating children...
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