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Obama announces new Iran sanctions
Barack Obama has announced new US sanctions against foreign banks that help Iran sell its oil, saying the new measures will raise pressure on Iran to meet its international nuclear obligations. The new penalties by the US president were announced on Tuesday and would target China's Bank of Kunlun and Iraq's Elaf Islamic Bank. In a statement, Obama.. More -
Fight continues for control of Syria's Aleppo
Syrian combat aircraft and artillery are targeting Aleppo as the army battles for control of the country's biggest city, where opposition fighters say troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been forced to retreat. Large clouds of black smoke rose into the sky on Tuesday after attack helicopters turned their machineguns on the eastern districts.. More -
US 'wasted' $200m on training Iraqi police
More than $200m was wasted on a programme to train Iraqi police that the government in Baghdad neither needed or wanted, US auditors have found. The Police Development Programme, which was to be the single largest programme launched by the US State Department anywhere in the world, was envisioned to be a five-year, multi-billion dollar effort to train.. More -
Palestinians accuse Romney of "racist" remark
Palestinians have accused US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of racism after he suggested disparities between the Israeli and Palestinian economies had cultural roots while not mentioning Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza. In a speech to fundraisers in Jerusalem on Monday, Romney, who is on a foreign tour, said.. More -
Syrian fighting rages in crucial Aleppo
Syrian forces and oppsition fighters have clashed violently in and around Aleppo as the battle for control of the country's largest city raged into a fourth day, with both sides claiming advances. The Syrian army said on Monday it had overrun part of the city's opposition-held Salaheddin district, which sits in the southwest in the face of the government.. More -
Israeli troops kill Palestinian at checkpoint
Israeli soldiers have shot dead one Palestinian and wounded two others after opening fire on a car at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian medical and security sources said Akram Dair, 40-years-old, was driving in a car before dawn on Monday when border guards near Ramallah opened fire on him and the two other Palestinian passengers.. More -
Civilians flee Aleppo as assault continues
Fierce fighting has continued in opposition-held districts of Aleppo for the second straight day as opposition forces continue to hold out in Syria's largest city. At least 200,000 residents of the country's commercial capital have fled in the past two days and many more are still trapped, according to the United Nations. The opposition Syrian National.. More -
Egypt PM to announce cabinet on Thursday
Egypt's new prime minister, Hisham Qandil, will announce a cabinet on Thursday, almost a month after President Mohamed Morsi took office amid a power struggle with the military, state media reported on Saturday. Qandil, a former irrigation minister, has been in consultations with candidates since Morsi appointed him last week to head the new government,.. More -
Battle rages for Syria's Aleppo
Syrian regime forces have launched a ground assault in the city of Aleppo, and are bombarding opposition-held areas with heavy artillery, activists and witnesses have said. Oppositionforces say they have beaten off the first wave of attacks that began on Saturday morning, but that the battle continues. At least 29 people were killed in Aleppo on Saturday,.. More -
Libya sees return to pre-war oil output in October
Libya expects to be back to pre-war oil production in October, later than previously forecast due to interruptions and the slow return of oil services firms to the North African country, Deputy Oil Minister Omar Shakmak told Reuters. Output has climbed back close to pre-war levels of 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) since a virtual standstill during.. More -
Deadly blast hits Pakistan town
At least nine people have been killed after a bomb exploded in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan. The blast in Salarzai town in the Bajaur tribal area also wounded over a dozen people, some of them critically, said Jehangir Azam, a local government administrator. Twenty others were wounded when the device, planted in a pick-up truck, exploded.. More -
Syria bolsters troops in battle for Aleppo
Activists say thousands of troops have been sent to Syria's second city, Aleppo, as clashes were reported in the city for the sixth consecutive day. Fighting was reported in the central al-Jamaliya neighborhood on Wednesday, close to the local headquarters of the ruling Baath party. In Kalasseh, in the south of the city, revolution forces set fire.. More -
Hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from land
The Israeli Defense Ministry wants to evict hundreds of Palestinians from eight hamlets in a West Bank area the military has designated as a firing zone, rights activists said Tuesday, portraying the decision as a new Israeli land grab. The firing zone, one of several in the West Bank, covers several thousand acres close to the border with Israel... More -
Fighting intensifies in Syria's Aleppo
Syria has sent thousands of troops surging towards the city of Aleppo, where regime forces are trying to reclaim areas held by opposition forces, opposition sources say. A spokesman for Free Syrian Army said troops had been moved from the northwestern province of Idlib to fight in Aleppo. "A large number of troops is being redeployed from Jabal.. More -
Egypt's Morsi names new prime minister
Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president, has named former irrigation minister Hesham Qandil as the country's new prime minister, state television has announced. Qandil has been tasked with forming a cabinet, which he says he will do "in days", in coordination with the president. The appointment on Tuesday comes 25 days after Morsi was sworn.. More
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