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Car bomb strikes near Syria military complex
A car bomb has exploded in the eastern Syrian city of Deir az-Zor, killing nine people and wounding 100 others, according to state-run media. The blast reportedly struck a parking lot for a military intelligence complex on Saturday. State TV showed footage of damaged buildings, smoldering cars, and trucks turned upside down by the blast. The Syrian.. More -
Ratko Mladic goes on trial for genocide
The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special UN court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia made their opening statements against Mladic on Wednesday almost a year after.. More -
Iran 'sending arms to Syria despite ban'
Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a UN Security Council ban on weapons exports by Iran, according to a confidential report. The report, submitted by a panel of sanctions-monitoring experts to the Security Council's Iran sanctions committee, said the panel investigated three large illegal shipments of Iranian.. More -
Syria opposition group re-elects leader
The splintered opposition Syrian National Council has re-elected liberal Burhan Ghalioun as president, two sources at the meeting say. Tuesday's decision to give him a three-month extension is apparently aimed at building his reputation as a consensus-builder with some international support. Ghalioun, a 67-year-old secular academic, has led the opposition.. More -
Palestinians mark Nakba with protests
Israeli forces faced off with Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank during the annual Nakba Day protests over the "catastrophe" that befell the Palestinians in 1948. At Beitunia checkpoint near Ramallah, youths hurled stones at troops, who fired tear gas, metal pellets and rubber bullets in a bid to break up Tuesday's demonstration. Several.. More -
Deaths reported in Syria amid UN team's visit
At least 21 civilians have been killed after Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession in Khan Sheikhoun, a town in Idlib province, during a visit by UN peace monitors, activists say. A spokesman of the rebel military council gave a higher death toll, saying at least 50 people were killed in Tuesday's attack during which cars belonging.. More -
Syrian soldiers 'killed' in Rastan clashes
Syrian opposition fighters have killed 23 government soldiers in the central town of Rastan, while heavy government shelling of the town killed nine people, activists have said. The violence came as the Arab League announced it would postpone talks aimed at uniting the Syrian opposition, after Syria's main opposition group said it would boycott.. More -
Deal reached over Palestinian hunger strike
Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike have agreed on a deal with Israel to end their fast in return for an easing of their conditions, officials on both sides said. The deal was reached after talks mediated by Egypt and the Palestinian Authority and made possible by the agreement of Palestinian groups "outside the prisons," Israel's Shin.. More -
Hollande to be sworn in as French president
Francois Hollande is to be sworn in as France's first Socialist president in 17 years in a ceremony on Tuesday before visiting Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Hollande, whose election comes as the eurozone is teetering back into crisis with fears about Greece's future in the single currency, will give his first presidential news conference.. More -
Several dead in clashes in Lebanon's Tripoli
At least four people have been killed, and another 24 injured, after fighting erupted overnight in the Lebanese city of Tripoli between residents loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and those supportive of the Syrian opposition, witnesses and security officials have said. Rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles were used in the fighting.. More -
Gulf leaders to discuss ‘GCC Union’
Leaders of the six Gulf Arab countries forming the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) are due to meet in Riyadh to discuss progress in their overall co-operation since their summit in December, when the Saudi monarch urged for a "transition from the stage of co-operation to the Union." The summit on Monday is expected to discuss the Saudi proposal.. More -
'Progress' in Palestinian hunger strike talks
Israelis and Palestinians are negotiating through Egyptian intermediaries to end a mass hunger strike by at least 1,500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, officials say. Palestinian officials on Saturday said Egyptian officials were trying to mediate between the strikers and Israel. "There was progress in talks between Egypt and Israel," Ismail.. More -
Deaths in Idlib as UN expands mission
Violence in Syria has killed eight people, activists say, even as a UN mission charged with overseeing a battered truce neared half its planned strength. In the northwestern province of Idlib, security force gunfire killed a man and a woman during a series of raids, activists said on Saturday. Also in the province, a UK-based rights group said four.. More -
Crashed Russian plane found in Indonesia
A helicopter searching a mountain south of the Indonesian capital has found the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi plane which disappeared on Wednesday with at least 47 people onboard, the government has said. The Indonesian military confirmed that the wreckage had been found on Thursday and said teams were working up Mount Salak, a dormant volcano more.. More -
Algeria prepares for parliamentary elections
Algeria is gearing up for parliamentary elections, which authorities have pledged will be the freest ever. Nearly 22 million Algerians are registered to vote for 44 parties, half of which were just legalized this year, for a parliament that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika promises will have a say in rewriting the constitution. But after decades of.. More
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