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Kerry wins deal to resume Mideast peace talks - 07/20/2013

AMMAN, Jo Biddle- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have laid the groundwork to resume peace talks frozen for three years and will meet in Washington within "the next week or so," US Secretary of...

Lebanon asks EU not to add Hezbollah to 'terror' list - 07/19/2013

BEIRUT- Lebanon officially asked the European Union on Thursday not to add Hezbollah to its blacklist of terrorist organisations, calling the militant group an "essential component of Lebanese...

Kurds expel jihadists from flashpoint Syrian town: NGO - 07/18/2013

BEIRUT- Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, a watchdog said on Wednesday. Elsewhere, a car bomb...

Bouteflika return raises questions on Algeria's future - 07/18/2013

ALGIERS, Beatrice Khadige- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's return home after almost three months in hospital in Paris raises questions about his ability to complete the last nine months of...

Syria mortar fire hits Israeli-occupied Golan - 07/17/2013

QUNEITRA CROSSING- Mortar fire from inside Syria hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday, causing several fires to break out along the ceasefire line, an AFP correspondent reported. The...

Revealed: Secret of bees' honeycomb - 07/17/2013

PARIS- For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb. Each waxy cell is a perfect hexagon, its six wafer-thin sides providing not only strength to...

Lebanon hospital ejects wounded Syrians: activist - 07/15/2013

TRIPOLI- A Lebanese hospital has "forcibly" ejected 30 Syrians patients wounded in violence in their country, an activist said on Monday, while the hospital said they were discharged over unpaid...

Kerry returning to Mideast with peace talks on agenda - 07/15/2013

WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- US Secretary of State John Kerry was returning to Jordan Monday on his sixth trip to the region as he tries to push Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks. Kerry will...

Broken tooth in dino tail 'proves' T. rex was predator - 07/15/2013

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- A broken T. rex tooth found in another dinosaur's tail bone offers the first hard evidence that the king of all meat-eating beasts hunted live prey, US paleontologists...

Deadly fighting traps hundreds of families in Damascus: NGO - 07/15/2013

BEIRUT- Shelling killed at least 13 people on Sunday in the Damascus district of Qaboon, where fierce fighting between the army and rebels has trapped hundreds of families, a monitor said. The Syrian...
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