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Homs evacuations resume as Syria peace talks falter - 02/13/2014

DAMASCUS- The evacuation of civilians and delivery of aid to besieged rebel-held areas of Syria's third city Homs resumed Wednesday, as peace talks in Geneva struggled to make headway. Government and...

Warnings of failure as Syria talks deadlocked - 02/12/2014

GENEVA, Jonathan Fowler, Nina Larson- Syria peace talks showed no signs of movement Tuesday, sparking warnings of failure, as the evacuation of civilians from besieged rebel-held areas of Syria's...

Sudan, Egypt officers collude in migrant abuse: rights group - 02/12/2014

CAIRO- Egyptian and Sudanese security officers have colluded with traffickers accused of holding Eritrean migrants for ransom and torturing them, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Victims accused the...

Libya's first post-uprising prosecutor general shot dead - 02/10/2014

BENGHAZI- Libya's former prosecutor general was shot dead Saturday by unknown attackers in the eastern city of Derna, the justice minister said, the latest in a series of assassinations that have...

Hundreds evacuated from Syria's Homs on eve of talks - 02/10/2014

DAMASCUS- Aid teams evacuated hundreds of exhausted civilians from besieged Homs city Sunday, as Syria's regime and rebels again accused each other of violating a truce ahead of new peace talks. The...

Red Crescent delivers aid to Homs despite coming under attack - 02/09/2014

DAMASCUS- The Syrian Red Crescent Saturday delivered a first batch of much-needed aid to civilians trapped for nearly two years in rebel-held areas of Homs city, despite coming under fire from...

Syria now 'a matter of homeland security': US official - 02/08/2014

WASHINGTON- The Syria conflict has become a US domestic security concern, Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson said Friday, one day after returning from talks in Europe where the war-torn nation...

Gunmen attack TV studios in Libya's Benghazi - 02/07/2014

BENGHAZI- Gunmen attacked the Benghazi studios of two privately run television channels overnight, journalists and security officials said Thursday, as violence in Libya's second city showed no...

Iraqi PM under fire amid 'insanity' of suicide bombings - 02/06/2014

WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki came under fire from US lawmakers Wednesday for the slow pace of political reconciliation and links to Iran, said to fuel a wave of suicide...

Russia says not the time for Syria humanitarian resolution - 02/06/2014

UNITED NATIONS, André Viollaz- Russia's UN envoy said Wednesday that Moscow opposes a UN Security Council Resolution demanding greater humanitarian access in Syria to those in urgent need of food and...
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