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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syrian President Bashar Assad announced Thursday that his country has handed over proposals for peace with Israel to Turkish mediators and would wait for Israel's response before holding any face-to-face negotiations. Assad said the document was intended to serve as a basis...(more)
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AFP - Thousands of civilians displaced by conflict languished on the roads of east Congo Sunday as Western powers pressured Congolese and Rwandan leaders to prevent "another Rwanda" tragedy.
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Eight people including a rabbi and his wife remain trapped in a Jewish centre in Mumbai after gunmen believed to be Islamist extremists launched coordinated attacks across the city.Sandra Samuel, a worker at the centre, managed to flee the building with the couple's two-year-old son, Moshe,...(more)
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A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.
The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia has issued against the...(more)
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Together they form an “Axis of Diesel”. Buoyed by petrodollars, Russia, Iran and Venezuela hectored the West as they extended their reach abroad, backing separatists in Georgia, Islamists in the Middle East and Leftists around the world.
Now those oil-producing powers may be forced to draw in...(more)
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Hamas has seen the large and well-armed Dagmoush clan as a challenge to its authority. A police officer and a baby are among the dead. GAZA CITY -- A night of clashes between Hamas forces and one of Gaza's strongest armed clans left 11 people dead,...(more)
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SRINAGAR, India Suraya Qadeem's brother was one of the Kashmir Valley's brightest students. Handsome and disciplined, he had been accepted into a prestigious medical school in Mumbai. But just weeks before Tahir Hussain was to pack his bags, the 20-year-old was shot dead by Indian...(more)
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Syrian state TV airs what it says are confessions by 11 militants behind the Damascas car bombing which left 17 people dead.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sent an unusual letter congratulating Barack Obama on Thursday for his victory in the American presidential race.
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The attack in the south Russian city of Vladikavkaz is believed to have been the work of a female suicide bomber. At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in a suspected suicide bombing near the central market in the south Russian city of...(more)
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A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.
The conclusions of the new assessment are likely...(more)
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AP - Tutsi-led rebels tightened their hold on newly seized swaths of eastern Congo Saturday, forcing tens of thousands of frightened, rain-soaked civilians out of makeshift refugee camps and stopping some from fleeing to government-held territory.
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