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AP - Iran's official news agency reports visiting U.N. inspectors did not visit any of the country's nuclear sites.
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Reuters - Arab and Western states urged the U.N. Security Council to act swiftly on a resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside as his government's forces reasserted control of Damascus suburbs on Tuesday after beating back rebels at the gates of the...(more)
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Captain of team and his brother say violence in which more 70 fans died had been plannedTwin brothers who play for the football team Al-Masry, whose match against a rival team in Egypt ended in a massacre, claim the violence was encouraged by the police with...(more)
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Massive artillery barrage comes as Russia and China veto UN security council resolution calling on president to step downThe Syrian city of Homs was left reeling on Saturday from harrowing accounts of a massacre that has left hundreds of people dead. Residents of the besieged city...(more)
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Reuters - An explosion hit the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan Sunday in Northern Sinai, witnesses and state TV said.
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The packaging of Kim Jong-un as the embodiment of the North’s still widely revered founding president suggests a well-oiled machine is at work to create a new leader.
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Reuters - Sudan, stepping up its rhetoric, accused South Sudan of "hostility" in their row over oil transit fees and said it would hold Juba responsible for any attack on northern oil facilities, a state-linked news website said on Wednesday.
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AP - Egypt's election commission and political groups say final results from the country's first elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak show Islamist parties winning nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament.
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Iran says three days of talks with UN nuclear inspectors have been "positive and constructive".
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Russia looks likely to oppose a joint western-Arab call for the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, to step downRussia looks set to oppose a crucial joint Arab and western attempt at the United Nations security council to force President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to step down, as...(more)
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AP - Somali insurgents have shut down food aid distribution by a major aid group because they say the organization is distributing spoiled food in the famine-hit south.
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Suspicion falls on Israel and the US as another scientist linked to Iran's nuclear programme is assassinatedOn the choking, gridlocked streets of Tehran, motorcycles are taking on an increasingly sinister aura. It is not just military officials and government scientists who look twice in their wing...(more)
