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Bombs targeting Iraqi Sunnis kill 67 - 05/18/2013

BAQUBA, Iraq, Mustafa al-Tuwaijri- Bombs targeting Sunnis, including two near a mosque and one at a funeral procession, killed 67 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after dozens died in two...

Acne pill benefits outweigh blood clot risk: EU agency - 05/18/2013

PARIS, Mariette Le Roux - Europe's medicines watchdog said Friday the benefits of acne drug Diane-35, also widely used as a contraceptive, outweigh the risk of developing blood clots in the veins --...

French school survives in war-rattled Damascus - 05/17/2013

DAMASCUS, Sammy Ketz- Angered over Bashar al-Assad's brutal repression of peaceful protests in Syria two years ago, Paris closed its embassy in Damascus, virtually cutting off the lifeline to the...

Cell 'plotted attacks' on US, French missions in Egypt - 05/16/2013

CAIRO- An Al-Qaeda-linked cell broken up in Egypt at the weekend planned to bomb the US and French embassies in Cairo, state news agency MENA quoted investigators as saying on Wednesday. "The accused...

Saudi detects six new SARS-like cases: ministry - 05/15/2013

RIYADH- Saudi Arabia has detected six new cases of the deadly coronavirus, the health ministry said, raising the number of people infected from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 30, half of them...

Panic grips Saudis amid fears of SARS-like virus - 05/14/2013

RIYADH- Panic gripped Saudis in the country's east on Monday, where most cases of the deadly coronavirus have been detected, witnesses said, as the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom...

Age and gender? Dutch develop analyser for Twitter - 05/14/2013

THE HAGUE- Researchers at a Dutch university have developed an online programme that is able give the age and gender of users purely based on the content they post on the social network Twitter....

Nine arrested over deadly Turkey bombings - 05/13/2013

REYHANLI, Turkey, Ceren Kumova- Turkey said Sunday it had arrested nine people over bombings that killed 46 in a town near the Syrian border and warned Damascus a red line had been crossed. The...

Two more police stations bombed in Libya's Benghazi - 05/13/2013

BENGHAZI, Libya- Two police stations were bombed early Sunday in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a security official said, the second such attack in days that caused damages but no casualties....

Dozens dead in Turkey car bombings blamed on Syria - 05/12/2013

REYHANLI, Turkey- Twin car bombs killed at least 43 people and wounded 100 Saturday in a Turkish town near the Syrian border, in an attack Ankara blamed on pro-Damascus groups. The bombings were the...
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