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Palestinian truck drivers protest rising prices
Dozens of Palestinian truck drivers blocked the main streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday to protest the Western-backed Palestinian Authority over rising prices and delayed payment of salaries to more than 150,000 civil servants, the Associated Press is reporting. Two dozen quarry workers also held a demonstration close to the blockade. Palestin.. More -
Somalia MPs to elect new president
Members of parliament in Somalia will vote for a new president in the first vote of its kind in decades amid fears that the election will be rigged and do little to alter the political landscape. Billed as a milestone in the war-ravaged country's quest to end two decades of violence, graft and infighting, a newly elected parliament will convene at.. More -
Bombs hit Syrian army compounds in Aleppo
Two bombs exploded simultaneously next to Syrian army compounds in the northern city of Aleppo, killing and wounding scores of President Bashar al-Assad's forces, residents and opposition activists said. The bombs targeted makeshift barracks and the military police headquarters, situated in two adjacent sealed off districts in the center of the city,.. More -
Wave of deadly bomb blasts hits Iraq
At least 24 people were killed and another 60 injured in 10 blasts across Iraq, including a car bomb outside a French consular building in the usually stable city of Nassiriya, police sources said. The most serious attack happened early on Sunday in Dujail, 50km north of Baghdad, when gunmen and a suicide bomber driving a car attacked a military base,.. More -
Palestinians bury victims of Israeli attack
Funerals have been held in the Gaza Strip for three of the six Palestinians killed in two Israeli attacks in under 12 hours. Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical sources said. "We have received three bodies," Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, said. The.. More -
Syria battle rages as Russia pushes old plan
Fighting for control of a key army base raged in the northern Syrian city Aleppo as Russia tried to revive a divisive accord that calls for a government of unity. As Lakhdar Brahimi prepared for his first visit to Damascus as international envoy on Syria, EU foreign ministers meeting in Cyprus on Saturday upped the pressure, saying they agreed on the.. More -
Israeli air strike kills several in Gaza
An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip has killed at least three Palestinians and wounded a fourth, a spokesman for the territory's health ministry says. Achraf al-Qudra told the AFP news agency the attack happened late on Wednesday to the east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip. Al-Qudra gave names of two of those killed.. More -
Arab FMs denounce "crimes against humanity" in Syria
Arab foreign ministers have denounced "crimes against humanity" in Syria, calling on the government to stop the violence immediately, as opposition fighters came under fire on multiple fronts. Opposition forces announced plans to reform and stem the proliferation of militias in the hope of winning support from the international community.. More -
Mauritania deports Gaddafi spy chief to Libya
Mauritanian authorities have handed over Muammar Gaddafi's ex-spy chief to Libya nearly five months after he was arrested for entering the country illegally, state television reported. "Mauritanian authorities hand over ex-Libyan spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya," read a newsflash on the screen written in Arabic on Wednesday. An official.. More -
Egypt's Morsi calls on Syrian regime to step down
Egypt's president says Syrian leader Bashar Assad must learn from "recent history" and step down before it is too late. Mohammed Morsi's reference to "recent history" appeared to allude to the fate of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen that have been overthrown by Arab Spring uprisings. Morsi spoke Wednesday.. More -
'Record numbers' of refugees fleeing Syria
The UN refugee agency says 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August alone, the highest monthly total since the uprising began. Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for UNHCR, said on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland, the rise in people seeking asylum in neighboring countries brings the total of Syrian refugees registered or awaiting registration with her agency.. More -
UN envoy calls Syria death toll 'staggering'
New UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said that the death toll in Syria was "staggering" and destruction from its war "catastrophic" in his first comments to the UN General Assembly.. Brahimi said he would go to Damascus "in a few days" and that a united international stance on Syria was "indispensable and.. More -
Civilians killed in ‘errant’ Yemen air strike
An attack by fighter planes in Yemen has ‘mistakenly’ hit vehicles carrying civilians travelling south of the capital, Sanaa, killing 14, including women and children, officials and tribesmen said. Military officials said Sunday's air raids in Radaa in the province of Bayda were based on faulty intelligence that the passengers were al-Qaeda.. More -
Deaths reported in Turkey fighting
Kurdish fighters have attacked police and military posts in a town near the Iraqi border with long-range weapons and rocket launchers, killing 10 security force members, according to a Turkish official. The attack on security forces in the town of Beytussebap, in Sirnak province, late on Sunday set off clashes that also killed several Kurdish fighters,.. More -
Syrian jets strike town near Aleppo
Fighter jets have bombed a town in northern Syria, killing at least 18 people, activists say, while the new UN envoy to the country has acknowledged that brokering an end to the nation's war will be a "nearly impossible" task. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), two anti-governm.. More
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