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Al-Qaeda controls villages in Yemens Hadramawt
ADEN, Yemen - Fighters loyal to Al-Qaeda have seized control of villages near the Yemeni port city of Mukalla in an apparent bid to take over swathes of the southeastern province of Hadramawt, the interior ministry and residents said on ...
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UPDATE 1-Egypt tycoon to buy MTS fiber network in new Canada push
Fri May 24, 2013 11:10am EDT By Alastair Sharp and Euan Rocha TORONTO May 24 (Reuters) - Manitoba Telecom Services Inc will sell its Allstream fiber optic network to a company controlled by telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris for C$520 million ($502.8 million), a deal that signals the Egyptian billionaire is still keen on the Canadian market. Under an agreement announced on Friday, Accelero Capital ...
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Salman Khurshid in Saudi Arabia as 27000 more indians fly back
International News: New Delhi: Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today left on an official visit to Saudi Arabia for talks on a range of issues, including the controversial Nitaqat law, energy security and counter-terrorism cooperation. India will issue at least 27,000 more Emergency ...
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Syria agrees to take part in peace talks says Russia
The Syrian government will attend a US and Russian-sponsored peace conference next month, despite President Bashar al-Assad publicly doubting the prospects of success for such a ...
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William Hague Solution to Middle East conflict is slipping away
William Hague has warned the Israelis and Palestinians that the prospect of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict is slipping away and that if the latest US-sponsored push for renewed talks is not grasped, the region faces a bleak ...
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Austria wants EU arms embargo to Syria extended
Austria 's foreign minister said Friday. Austria's 377 soldiers make up the largest contingent of the approximately 900 U.N. peacekeepers posted to the Golan Heights separating Syria and ...
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Taliban attack U.N. compound in Afghan capital police
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday setting off explosions and battling the security ...
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Cardinal Leonardo Sandri To Visit Lebanon and Jordan
The Holy See announced that Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, will travel to Lebanon and Jordan this weekend. Cardinal Sandri will attend the ordination of new Maronite Bishops for Argentina and Australia this ...
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Iran Nuke Depends On Decision
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Iranacquired all the technology required for nuclear weapons. Officials said the community determined that the Teheran regime hasrefined skills and technology to enable Iran to quickly assemble nuclearweapons, including warheads for ballistic missiles. They said the communityassessed that the production of such weapons ...
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Israel Warns Of Imminent War
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's military, struggling with a shooting war withSyria, has warned of an imminent multi-front conflict. Israel Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel issued one of thestarkest warnings of an imminent war that could include Hizbullah and ...
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Israel Palestinians urged to make hard decisions
TEL AVIV - US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take "hard decisions" to revive the Middle East peace ...
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15 killed in suicide car bomb blast in NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 17 others injured when a suicide car bomb blast ripped through a market in Pakistan's northwest town of Dera Adamkhel on Saturday morning, reported local media Express. While some local media said that it was a car bomb blast, local Urdu TV channel Express and two other channels quoted unidentified sources as saying that it ...
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Yemens main oil export pipeline bombed ministry
Yemen's main oil pipeline which carries crude from the Marib province to export terminal on the Red Sea was blown up Friday, the defense ministry said in a statement."Saboteurs on Friday dawn bombed the main oil pipeline in Serwah district in the northeastern province of Marib," the ministry said in the statement on its website.Acts of sabotage on the oil pipeline and electricity ...
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Al-Qaeda seizes territory in Yemens Hadramawt
Yemeni armed tribesmen, supported by the Yemeni army to fight with Al-Qaeda militants, ride a tank in the southern town of Loder in Abyan province on April 14, 2012. AFP ...
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Syria opposition skeptical as Russia says regime will talk
A member of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Faruq Tayfur, attends a meeting on May 23, 2013, in Istanbul. AFP PHOTO/BULENT ...
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Agricultural Charity Gives Aid to Israels Poor
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Almost two million Israelis live below the poverty level, including more than a third of the country's children. However, one charity is using a biblical principle to fill in the ...
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Huge blasts gunfire heard near Indian embassy in Kabul
NEW DELHI: Large explosions have been heard in Kabul on Friday followed by gunfire. Sources told Times Now that the explosions happened near the Indian embassy though the mission was not the target of the attack. AFP reported that gunfire erupted as security forces rushed to the scene of the blasts that took place around 4pm local time. "There has been explosion in an area which is close to ...
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Kerry Lavrov to meet on Syria in Paris on Monday
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet privately in Paris on Monday to discuss their efforts to bring Syria's warring parties to a peace conference, a U.S. official said on Friday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two men would "continue their conversation (from) Moscow," a reference to ...
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Syria rebel removes bites soldiers heart group says
By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News A Syrian rebel commander has been caught on video cutting out the heart of a soldier and biting into ...
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Amnesty International criticizes torture in Egypt
Amnesty International says the administration of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi failed to implement reforms to eradicate torture. "No legal or policy reforms were implemented to eradicate torture under either the SCAF [Supreme Council of Armed Forces] or President Morsi's administration," the organization said. "Torture and other ill-treatment continued and security ...
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Syrian regime to attend peace talks
BEIRUT: The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the Arab country's conflict, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday. It was the first confirmation that President Bashar Assad's government would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition. But despite the announcement from ...
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Australia gives $11.5 million for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Bob Carr said Friday following a meeting with Prime Minister designate Tammam Salam.Carr said Australia supports Lebanon's disassociation policy from the Syrian crisis and his country is committed to ...
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UN nuke agencys Iran probe driven by US-led intel
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international ...
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Kerry says Israelis Palestinians must make tough decisions
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders are nearing crunch time, when they must decide whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on ...
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Egypt 10 men suspected for the killing of 3 women in honour crime
LUXOR, Egypt - An Egyptian security official says 10 male relatives have killed a mother and her two daughters on suspicion of moral offences -- so-called "honour killings." The official said Friday the men suspected the three women of having affairs, and killed them to protect the family's honour. The three bodies were found in the Nile River near the ancient city of Luxor. They ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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