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  • Obama for raising pressure on Syria

    Barack Obama, the US president, has said he was looking to increase international pressure on Bashar al-Assad, his Syrian counterpart. "Unfortunately we're continuing to see unacceptable levels of violence inside that country," Obama said in Washington on Tuesday after meeting Jordan's King Abdullah. "We will continue to consult.. More

  • Syrian legislators join anti-Assad uprising

    Two members of Syria's parliament have left the country, saying they are joining the opposition movement against President Bashar al-Assad, as the crackdown on anti-government protests continues. Nawaf al-Bashir, a tribal leader and MP from Deir Ezzor, told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV on Monday that he had "come to Turkey to activate the opposition".. More

  • Hacker brings down Israeli websites

    A hacker brought down the websites of Israel's national carrier El Al and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). Both sites were affected early in the day on Monday, posting messages saying they had been taken down for "maintenance." By early afternoon the El Al site was back up, although the TASE website was still inaccessible. The.. More

  • Sarkozy: Europe facing \'unprecedented crisis\'

    Nicolas Sarkozy has told European leaders that their countries' economies are facing an "unprecedented crisis", in remarks he made after talks with Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. The French president, addressing a joint news conference in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Monday, said the economic crisis will force European leaders.. More

  • Embattled Pakistan leaders face court test

    Pakistan’s political crisis could take a major turn as the country’s supreme court takes on the civilian government on two fronts, both of which could see Yousuf Raza Gilani's legitimacy as prime minister challenged. Monday marks the court’s deadline to Gilani’s government for reopening a stalled graft probe against President.. More

  • Iran tells Gulf states not to lift oil output

    Iran has warned its neighbors in the Gulf not to make up for any shortfall in its oil exports caused by Western sanctions. A new round of US sanctions approved last month targets the Iranian central bank, making it more difficult for Iran to sell oil abroad, though the US has delayed implementing those sanctions by six months. And the European.. More

  • Assad offers \'amnesty\' for opposition

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has offered amnesty to anyone accused of crimes in connection with the last 10 months of anti-government unrest and resulting violence. Assad has made similar decrees on three previous occasions in May, June and November. Sunday's announcement was made on the official SANA news agency and broadcast on state television. .. More

  • Hamas to return Abbas\\\\\\\' seized Gaza house

    Hamas has pledged to return the Gaza residence of Mahmoud Abbas, which its fighters seized in 2007, to the Fatah leader, following reconciliation talks between the two main Palestinian factions on Saturday. "We tell our brothers in Fatah that they can take the home of president Abu Mazen," Hamas official Khalil al-Haya said at a joint news.. More

  • Iran claims evidence to tie US to killing

    Iran says it has evidence the US was behind the killing of one of its nuclear scientists, according to Iranian state television. US officials last week denied any role in the killing of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, and condemned the bomb attack which claimed his life in Tehran on Wednesday. However, Iran's state TV reported that the Iranian foreign.. More

  • ElBaradei will not seek Egypt presidency

    Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog and Nobel laureate, has said he will not run for the Egyptian presidency. Declaring there is still no real political change in the country, ElBaradei said on Saturday in a statement: "My conscience does not allow me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless.. More

  • Blast kills Shia pilgrims in Basra

    An attack has killed at least 15 Shia pilgrims in Iraq's southern city of Basra, local police say. The attacker, wearing a suicide vest, was said to have been disguised as a policeman targeting pilgrims who were passing through a checkpoint in the outskirt of the main southern city at the time of the blast. The pilgrims were headed toward a Shia mosque.. More

  • US troops 'told to lie' about Iraqi killings

    A US soldier has told a military jury in California how his commander killed five Iraqi civilians in the western al-Anbar province in 2005 and then asked him to lie about it. At a trial stemming from one of the Iraq war's most controversial episodes, Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz testified on Wednesday, the third day of Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich's.. More

  • French reporter killed in Syria violence

    Deaths of civilians are being reported from continued violence across Syria, amid more defiance from President Bashar al-Assad and criticism of the Arab League's observer mission by one of its own monitors. At least nine people, including a French journalist, were killed and several more were wounded in an explosion that struck a government-organized.. More

  • Iran nuclear scientist killed by car bomb

    A nuclear scientist who supervised a department at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility has been killed by a magnetic bomb placed on his car by two assailants in northern Tehran, Iranian media reported. The attack strongly resembles earlier killings of scientists working on the country's controversial nuclear programme. The bomb explosion.. More

  • Israel \'preparing to absorb Syrian refugees\'

    Israel is preparing to receive Syrian Alawite refugees on the occupied Golan Heights if the Bashar al-Assad government collapses, Israel's army chief of staff has said. It is the first time that a senior Israeli official has raised the possibility that members of the Alawite minority, which includes the Assad family, could seek refuge in Israel.. More