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Syria opposition denounces Hezbollah 'threats' - 05/02/2013

BEIRUT- Syria's opposition on Wednesday denounced what it called "threats" by the head of Hezbollah, and warned against any intervention by the Lebanese Shiite group or by Iran in the Syrian...

Physicists zoom in on antimatter behaviour - 05/01/2013

PARIS, Mariette Le Roux- Physicists announced a breakthrough Tuesday in their quest to answer one of science's great questions: do the same laws of gravity apply to antimatter -- the obscure...

UAE jails 3 Britons on drugs amid torture probe calls - 04/30/2013

DUBAI, Lynne Nahhas- A UAE court on Monday jailed three British men for four years each on drugs charges, amid calls for their release and claims they have been tortured in prison. The sentencing of...

US ups medics at Guantanamo over hunger strike - 04/30/2013

WASHINGTON- Extra medical staff have been sent to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to help address a hunger strike that has spread to nearly two-thirds of the detainees, authorities said...

Republican lawmakers step up calls for US action on Syria - 04/29/2013

WASHINGTON, Jim Mannion- Republican lawmakers stepped up calls for US action against Syria on Sunday in the face of growing evidence that it used chemical weapons against its population in a bitter...

Syria rejects US, UK chemical arms claims - 04/28/2013

DAMASCUS- Syria on Saturday dismissed as a "barefaced lie" US and British claims it may have used chemical weapons, as staunch ally Russia warned against using such fears to intervene militarily in...

Fire deaths expose Russia's primitive psychiatric care - 04/28/2013

MOSCOW, Anna Malpas- A fire that killed 36 patients at a dilapidated wooden psychiatric facility has exposed Russia's failure to move on from the old Soviet system of punitive psychiatry used against...

Syria's chemical weapons: a mysterious arsenal - 04/27/2013

NICOSIA- Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons has existed for several decades and is considered one of the biggest in the Middle East, but its exact makeup and size remain guesswork as few facts have...

Van Goghs back home in renewed Amsterdam museum - 04/27/2013

AMSTERDAM- Masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, including his world-famous "Sunflowers" and "The Potato Eaters", have been returned to the Amsterdam museum that bears the Dutch artist's name ahead of...

'Systemic' sex abuse at elite NY school: prosecutors - 04/27/2013

NEW YORK- Students at one of America's most prestigious schools were abused by pedophile teachers for more than three decades but prosecutors are unable to file charges because the crimes happened...
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