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Syria dissidents meet as crackdown claims more lives - 10/02/2011

DAMASCUS- Representatives of Syria's six-month-old protest movement and opposition parties met in Turkey on Saturday to forge a united front against Bashar al-Assad's regime as fresh violence claimed...

Palestinian 'olive trees uprooted' in West Bank - 10/02/2011

NABLUS- Israeli settlers invaded Palestinian olive groves in the West Bank on Saturday and uprooted 200 trees, Palestinian witnesses said. The settlers from Yitzhar, near the northern city of...

Radical US-born cleric Awlaqi killed in Yemen - 09/30/2011

SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- US-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, an Al-Qaeda leader wanted over attacks in the US, was killed Friday in an air raid in Yemen hailed by President Barack Obama as a...

Jordan defers corruption bill debate after outcry - 09/30/2011

"No date has been SET to complete the debate and we have to wait for the next regular session," which under the constitution is decided by King Abdullah II. Officials said they now expect the...

British satirical magazine Private Eye in rude health at 50 - 09/30/2011

LONDON, Sam Reeves- After decades lampooning hapless politicians, Britain's leading satirical magazine Private Eye turns 50 next month with its brand of irreverent humour as popular as ever. The...

Libya's battered NTC forces urge more NATO strikes - 09/28/2011

BANI WALID, Michael Mainville- Anti-Kadhafi forces urged NATO on Wednesday to intensify its air war as they took heavy losses in a push on the ousted despot's birthplace Sirte and his other remaining...

Success or failure, for Einstein it's all relative - 09/28/2011

But soon after this shadow fell across Einstein's reputation, another experiment came along which has validated -- magnificently and on a cosmological scale -- another of his landmark ideas....

Egypt elections to start on November 28 - 09/28/2011

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egypt will hold on November 28 its first parliamentary election since an uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February, the ruling military announced in a decree on...

Fierce fighting in Sirte kills more than 10 Libyan fighters - 09/28/2011

SIRTE- More than 10 fighters of Libya's new rulers have been killed Tuesday in fierce street fighting with forces of Moamer Kadhafi in his hometown of Sirte, a commander told AFP. "More than 10 of...

'Resistance' broadcaster Arrai now in Kadhafi's graces - 09/28/2011

"We are the only channel in direct contact with Moamer Kadhafi and his family," Hawazen said, referring to the longtime Libyan strongman who is now on the run after rebel forces took control of...
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