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  • Bomb hits Syrian army truck escorting UN team

    A roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck near Deraa, wounding six soldiers just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the UN observer mission passed by. An Associated Press news agency reporter who was travelling in the UN convoy said the explosion blew out the military vehicle's windows and sent out a plume of black smoke. Vehicles in.. More

  • 'Arms flowing' between Lebanon and Syria

    Weapons are being smuggled in both directions between Lebanon and Syria, the United Nations has said. "Based on information that we have, there are reasons to believe that there is a flow of arms both ways - from Lebanon into Syria and from Syria into Lebanon," Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN special envoy to the Middle East, told reporters after.. More

  • Ramallah holds rally for jailed Palestinians

    In a show of solidarity for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, hundreds of people have taken to the streets in the West Bank. Tuesday's protests in Ramallah come as a hunger strike by almost 2,000 prisoners enters its fourth week. The demonstration also came a day after Israel's supreme court rejected an appeal by two Palestinian prisoners who.. More

  • Annan sounds Syria civil war warning

    Kofi Annan, the international envoy, has said his six-point peace plan for Syria is a "possible last chance to avoid civil war". Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy entrusted with bringing an end to the violence, said on Tuesday that world powers shared a "profound concern" that Syria's violence was escalating into civil war. He said.. More

  • Egypt judges send scores to trial for unrest

    Investigating judges sent 293 Egyptians to trial on charges of resisting authorities, damaging public property and carrying knives and fire bombs during an anti-government protest last year. A three-week sit-in in December outside the Cabinet building turned violent when troops badly beat a protester. In four days of clashes that followed, 14 people.. More

  • Putin sworn in as Russia's president

    Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia's president at a glittering ceremony, hours after clashes between police and protesters laid bare the deep divisions over his return to the Kremlin for six more years. The former KGB spy took his oath on Monday before nearly 2,000 guests in the Kremlin's St Andrew Hall, the former throne room with sparkling.. More

  • Syria holds election snubbed by opposition

    Syrians have voted in the first multiparty parliamentary election in five decades against a backdrop of violence and dismissed as a sham by the opposition. Most of the restive areas that have seen regular protests against the government of President Bashar al-Assad boycotted the elections on Monday. According to independent observers in Damascus,.. More

  • Hollande wins French presidency

    France has elected Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades, marking a shift to the left at the heart of Europe. Hollande unseated Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in a heated election on Sunday, making the incumbent France's first one-term president since Valery Giscard d'Estaing lost to Socialist Francois Mitterrand.. More

  • Egypt's military orders overnight curfew

    Egypt's ruling military has said that it will impose an overnight curfew in Cairo's defense ministry district for a second successive night after deadly clashes with protesters A military official told the AFP news agency that the curfew would go into effect between 11pm local time (2100 GMT) on Saturday and 6am (0400 GMT) on Sunday. The military.. More

  • Palestinian hunger strikers in prison clinic

    Ten Palestinian prisoners participating in a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails have been placed under medical supervision as their conditions worsen, officials said. A spokeswoman for Israel's prison service said on Saturday that the 10 were transferred to a prison clinic for medical supervision. But Sivan Weizeman, the spokeswoman, did not say.. More

  • Deadly blasts target two Syrian cities

    Explosions have struck two cities in Syria, killing several people a day after a spokesman for Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy, said the UN peace plan for Syria remained on track. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that five people were killed on Saturday in a blast in the Tala Azaziya neighborhood of Aleppo apparently targeting.. More

  • Clinton presses China on rights

    Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state has told China that it cannot deny the "aspirations" of its citizens as she opened talks in Beijing marred by a row over a Chinese dissident. "We believe that all governments do have to answer to citizens' aspirations for dignity and the rule of law and that no nation can or should deny those rights,".. More

  • Egypt deploys army to quell deadly clashes

    Clashes have erupted between assailants and supporters of Egypt's Islamist political parties who had gathered near the defense ministry in Cairo, leaving 11 people dead and nearly 50 wounded, security and hospital officials said. The violence on Wednesday is the latest episode in more than a year of turmoil in Egypt following the toppling of longtime.. More

  • Bahrain accuses foreign media of exaggeration

    King Hamad of Bahrain has accused foreign media of exaggerating unrest and inciting violence in the Gulf Arab state after it hosted a Formula One race last month that turned into a public relations headache. "It is quite clear that Bahrain has been targeted by purposeful, willful campaigns in some foreign media that sought to distort true facts,.. More

  • UN says Syrian army still using heavy weapons

    Syrian security forces have kept heavy weapons in cities in breach of a UN-brokered cessation of hostilities, but the government and opposition both have committed truce violations, a top UN official has said. The 24 unarmed military observers now in Syria have seen Howitzer guns, armored personnel carriers and other weaponry in cities, Herve Ladsous,.. More