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West accuses Syria over 3.5 million in need
The Syrian regime has allowed aid convoys to cross only one of eight border crossings identified by the United Nations as a priority, Western ambassadors said. In February, the UN Security Council passed the first humanitarian resolution of the three-year war, demanding that the regime and armed opposition allow aid to reach civilians. But in the.. More -
Protests near Cairo University leave one dead
One person has been killed near Egypt's Cairo University after protesters supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsi clashed with security forces, a health ministry official said. The official, cited by the Reuters news agency, said eight people were also wounded in Wednesday's attack but could not give further details. The protesters, along with students.. More -
Opposition fail to get Syria Arab League seat
The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) has made only marginal gains at a meeting of the Arab League, despite two days of intense lobbying. The 22-member summit, which concluded in Kuwait City on Wednesday, decided to allow the SNC to participate in ministerial meetings on an "exceptional basis". But the league stopped short on Wednesday.. More -
Egypt's Sisi quits army to run for president
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the general who ousted Egypt's first freely elected leader last July, has declared his candidacy for a presidential election he is expected to easily win. Wearing military fatigues and speaking in a nationally televised address , Sisi said it was the last time he would wear an army uniform and that "I give up the uniform.. More -
Syria rebels gain foothold by Mediterranean
Syrian rebels have seized control of a tourist site by the Turkish border that allowed them a small foothold by the Mediterranean for the first time since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted three years ago, activists said. Amateur video posted online by activists on Tuesday shows a group of rebels by the sea in the seaside strip.. More -
Arab League summit under way amid divisions
Heads of Arab states are holding their annual summit amid an unprecedented diplomatic fallout among the Gulf countries and tension over the crisis in Egypt and the conflict in Syria. Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, in the opening session of the two-day Arab League summit on Tuesday, called on Arab states to end rifts he said were obstructing.. More -
G7 threatens Russia with more sanctions
US President Barack Obama and major industrialized allies have warned Russia it faces damaging economic sanctions if President Vladimir Putin takes further action to destabilize Ukraine following the seizure of Crimea. Leaders of the Group of Seven nations, meeting without Russia, agreed to hold their own summit this year instead of attending a planned.. More -
Israeli diplomats stage global strike
Israeli foreign ministry employees have intensified a long-running dispute over pay and conditions by declaring a full-scale strike at home and at diplomatic missions around the world. "The ministry in Jerusalem will remain closed and Israel's missions abroad will not open as of Monday morning, March 24," the ministry's website said. Israel.. More -
Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death
An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement. Family members stood outside the courthouse screaming after the verdict - the biggest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt's modern history, defense lawyers said. Turmoil has.. More -
Assad cousin killed in Syria's Latakia
Hilal al-Assad, a cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been killed along with seven of his fighters during fighting in the border town of Kasab in Latakia province, after shells from opposition forces targeted his vehicle. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, reported Assad's death. It was confirmed by Syrian.. More -
Hamas warns Israel over calls to attack Gaza
Gaza's Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has warned Israel it would pay a "very high price" if it heeded its foreign minister's call to reoccupy the besieged enclave to try to halt rocket attacks. Speaking on Sunday to tens of thousands of supporters at a public rally marking 10 years since an Israeli air strike killed Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh.. More -
Turkey shoots down Syrian fighter jet
Turkey's air force has shot down a Syrian aircraft for violating Turkish airspace, an action that Syria denounced as "unprecedented and unjustifiable". The incident happened on Sunday, with the plane crashing near the Syrian town of Kasab on the Turkish border after it was targeted by F-16s. The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,.. More -
Russia tightens military grip on Crimea
World leaders are to meet for emergency G7 talks on Russia's annexation of Crimea, after NATO gave warning that the Russian troop build-up in Crimea posed a wider threat to other post-Soviet states. Monday's hastily arranged talks, on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, will not involve Russia - a symbolic snub to Moscow,.. More -
Clashes erupt in Syria's Assad home province
Fighting has raged between opposition fighters and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's northern Latakia province, a day after 34 people were killed as opposition fighters sought to seize a border crossing into Turkey, an NGO said. The fighting has prompted Assad's government to complain to the United Nations that Turkey was providing.. More -
Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes
At least three Palestinians have been killed and 14 others injured in an Israeli raid in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials and medics said, with some of the wounded in critical condition. The son of a former Hamas official was among the dead on Saturday, Al Jazeera has learned. Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers.. More
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