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Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria … Reuters - 2 hours 43 minutes agoBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President More »
- Ugandan police raid newspaper over Museveni … Reuters - 3 hours ago
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Police raided Uganda's leading independent newspaper on Monday and disabled its printing press after it published a letter More »
- Russia - Assad foes must come to Syria … Reuters - 3 hours ago
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that it is crucial for Syrian opposition representatives to take part in a peace More »
"No option off table" over Syria - … Reuters - 3 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - Britain warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that "no option is off the table" over the possible arming of Syrian rebels and said it More »
- Somali government says guns won't decide … Reuters - 3 hours ago
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's new government said on Monday it was pursuing talks to resolve rival claims for control in the south that have stoked More »
Israel's Lapid speaks of removing some … Reuters - 5 hours agoBy Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Finance Minister Yair Lapid, whose new centrist party is the second largest in Israel's government, said on Monday thousands More »
- Egyptian army boosts forces in Sinai … Reuters - 6 hours ago
By Yousri Mohamed EL-ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) - The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Mursi said there More »
Iran electoral watchdog hints at Rafsanjani … Reuters - 7 hours agoBy Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent More »
Former Pakistani dictator Musharraf … Reuters - 8 hours agoISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of More »
- Thirty Hezbollah fighters killed in … Reuters - 8 hours ago
AMMAN (Reuters) - About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were killed More »
Gay marriage vote poses problems for … AFP - 14 hours agoBritish Prime Minister David Cameron faces further dissent from within the ranks of his Conservative Party as a bill to legalise gay marriage returns to Parliament More »
- Outlook dim as Syria diplomacy gathers … Reuters - 19 hours ago
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Peter Graff AMMAN/LONDON (Reuters) - The world's diplomats will make a major new push in the coming days for negotiations to end Syria's More »
- Militants kill 10 Iraq policemen in … Reuters - 20 hours ago
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - - Militants killed at least 10 Iraqi policemen in a series of attacks on checkpoints in the West of the country on Sunday, police and local More »
Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel … Reuters - 21 hours agoBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more More »
- One killed in northern Lebanese city … Reuters - 22 hours ago
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - One person was killed and a dozen people were wounded by gunfire on Sunday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security sources More »
- Protesting Egyptian police block Israel … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border More »
India gripes over border, trade woes … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told visiting Chinese President Li Keqiang on Sunday a recent military standoff in More »
- Two Egyptian journalists, critical of … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013
CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Egyptian journalists at a newspaper critical of President Mohamed Mursi were ordered on Sunday to face an expedited criminal trial for More »
AP chief says phone probe makes news … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather More »
Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Steve Holland ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his More »
Humala's approval rating in Peru slips … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013LIMA (Reuters) - President Ollanta Humala's approval rating fell 5 points to a six-month low of 46 percent, reflecting the unpopularity of his proposal to buy an More »
Netanyahu takes aim at weapons 'leakage' … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act More »
With president ailing, Algeria prepares … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Lamine Chikhi and Myra MacDonald ALGIERS (Reuters) - Three weeks after being rushed to hospital in Paris, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has disappeared More »
- South Africa finds collusion, manipulation … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013
By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding More »
EU says worried by Russia's human rights … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union criticised Russia's human rights record on Sunday, saying it was increasingly concerned at a wave of restrictive legislation More »
Afghanistan's Karzai seeks Indian military … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, More »
- Egyptian police block Israel border … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border More »