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More killed as Syria buries protesters - 05/22/2011

DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces killed at least five people and wounded dozens more on Saturday as they fired at a crowd in the central city of Homs after funerals of anti-regime protesters, an...

NATO hits 8 Kadhafi ships as Obama predicts demise - 05/21/2011

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- NATO said on Friday its warplanes hit eight vessels of Moamer Kadhafi's navy, after US President Barack Obama predicted the Libyan strongman would "inevitably" leave or be...

Syria 'acute concern' for US, Israel: Obama - 05/21/2011

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that Syria was of "acute concern" for the United States and Israel, and outlined tough US measures against Damascus to Israeli Prime Minister...

NATO raids on port of Tripoli: regime spokesman - 05/20/2011

TRIPOLI- NATO air strikes targeted the port of the Libyan capital Tripoli Thursday night, regime spokesman Mussa Ibrahim and witnesses said. "I have just learned that the port of Tripoli is now...

Implant breakthrough helps paraplegic man stand, walk - 05/20/2011

PARIS- In a world first, neurosurgeons in the US said on Friday electrodes implanted in the lower spine had enabled a paraplegic man to stand up unaided, move his legs voluntarily and, with help,...

The old bear of the Assad regime is falling - 05/19/2011

Ali al-Hajj - Syria's people no longer fear the state violence machine. The only legitimacy they will accept now is from the ballot box Syria's president Bashar al-Assad is coming under increasing...

Yoga helps breast cancer patients: study - 05/19/2011

WASHINGTON- Breast cancer patients who practise yoga experience lower stress and improved quality of life compared to counterparts who do stretching exercises, a US study indicated Wednesday....

Pressure piles on Kadhafi, oil minister in Tunisia - 05/18/2011

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum - Pressure piled on Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi Tuesday as his oil minister appeared to have defected, Moscow issued a rebuke, NATO jets pounded Tripoli and a leading...

Israeli minister cancels Syria meet in Vienna: hosts - 05/18/2011

VIENNA- An Israeli deputy minister cancelled a planned meeting Tuesday with members of the Syrian opposition at the offices of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), an FPOe spokesman said....

Mummified princess had coronary heart disease - 05/18/2011

PARIS- The diagnosis is more than 3,500 years late, but no less stunning for all of that. An Egyptian princess who lived between 1580 and 1550 BC has become the earliest person in human history to...
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