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Abbas seeks financial aid from Arab leaders
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas attends the opening session of the first Arab summit to be held in Iraq in 22 years, Thursday, in the former Republican Palace in Baghdad, with the year-long crisis in Syria in the spotlight. — AFP
22 killed as fighting rages in Syrian cities
DAMASCUS — Syrian forces assailed activist bastions Thursday as Arab leaders gathered in Baghdad for a landmark
Al-Azhar withdraws from constituent panel
CAIRO — Al-Azhar said Thursday it was withdrawing from a disputed panel dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood to draft
US to grant $100m aid to Tunisia
WASHINGTON/TUNIS — The United States plans to grant $100 million to Tunisia to help the transitioning democracy pay
Friday, 30 - March 2012
SANA’A — Yemeni police have freed 21 Ethiopian illegal migrants who were tortured by armed men to force their relatives in Saudi Arabia to send ransom
Friday, 30 - March 2012
LONDON — The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 meters (46-60 feet),
Friday, 30 - March 2012
PARIS — French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande has defended the idea of an unmarried first couple in the Elysee Palace if he wins the presidency
Friday, 30 - March 2012
JAKARTA — Thousands of Indonesians rallied nationwide Thursday against a planned fuel price hike they say will cause great hardship, as the parliament
Friday, 30 - March 2012
BAMAKO — Mali’s ousted leader Amadou Toumani Toure, whose whereabouts have been unknown since he was overthrown on March 22, has told AFP he is safe
Friday, 30 - March 2012
CAIRO — A Cairo court sentenced former Housing Minister Ibrahim Soliman to eight years in jail Thursday and fined him 2.18 billion Egyptian pounds ($360.9
Friday, 30 - March 2012
ADEN — A bid to release a Swiss woman kidnapped in Yemen has suffered a blow after her abductors made excessive demands, including for Osama Bin Laden’s
Friday, 30 - March 2012
WASHINGTON — White House frontrunner Mitt Romney earned the endorsement Wednesday of Senator Marco Rubio, but the rising Republican star often discussed
Friday, 30 - March 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan sacked Thursday a government surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama Bin Laden, officials said, amid calls for him
Friday, 30 - March 2012
TOKYO — North Korea has reportedly begun fuelling a rocket for a launch next month, defying calls to abort an event the West says is a disguised missile
