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Protesters clash with police in Cairo

Egyptian protesters set cars alight and threw stones at military police in Cairo, after rumors spread that an activist had been detained at a sit-in and badly beaten near the parliamentary building. Police fired in the air shortly after dawn on Friday to try to disperse around 300 demonstrators, who were angered by images posted online that appeared.. More

173789 16/12/2011
Iraqis celebrate impending US withdrawal

Thousands of people in the Iraqi city of Fallujah have taken to the streets to celebrate the impending withdrawal of US troops from the country. Demonstrators rallied across the city on Wednesday, shouting slogans in support of the "resistance", a reference to the campaign by Iraqi fighters in Fallujah that was a bastion of opposition against.. More

173773 15/12/2011
Tainted alcohol kills scores in India

More than a hundred people have died after drinking toxic alcohol in India's West Bengal state, police say. Day laborers and other poor workers in the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers south of Kolkata, began falling ill late on Tuesday after drinking the bootleg brew, according to district magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam. Some 100 others.. More

173771 15/12/2011
Disused mosque burnt in Jerusalem attack

Vandals have set fire to a disused mosque in Jerusalem, daubing inflammatory graffiti in Hebrew on the walls in an apparent anti-Palestinian "price tag" attack. Israeli police said on Wednesday they were investigating the overnight incident which took place near the busy shopping district around Jaffa Street. Slogans insulting the Noble.. More

173757 14/12/2011
Polls open in Egypt's second wave of voting

Egyptians in nine provinces have begun voting in the second stage of the first parliamentary elections since a popular uprising toppled former president Hosni Mubarak in February. Dozens of people were lining up under campaign posters outside a school near the Pyramids in Giza, Cairo's twin city, early on Wednesday, waiting to cast their ballots and.. More

173755 14/12/2011
Israel moves to curb African migrants

Israel's government has approved a $167m plan to stem the flow of African migrants who cross into the country through its porous border with Egypt . Announcing the government's intention to increase fines for employers who hire illegal workers, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said: "If necesssary, we will close businesses so that.. More

173719 12/12/2011
Fresh violence as Syrians strike

Hundreds of army defectors in southern Syria have fought with loyalist forces in one of the biggest armed confrontations in the nine-month uprising, and a strike shut businesses in a new gesture of civil disobedience, residents and activists said . In another development likely to raise international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, French.. More

173717 12/12/2011
Yemen transition government starts work

Yemen's national unity government was sworn in on Saturday in the presence of Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, an official statement said . The statement, carried by the official Saba news agency, said the swearing-in ceremony took place at the Republican Palace in the capital Sanaa . The new 34-member cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Mohammed.. More

173695 11/12/2011
Gingrich stands by 'invented' Palestinians remark

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has declared his support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but declined to use a pre-debate speech in Iowa to step back from earlier controversial remarks in which he described Palestinians as an "invented people." The burden to show a willingness to reach a peace.. More

173693 11/12/2011
Anti-Putin protests erupt across Russia

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Russia against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule amid signs of swelling anger over a poll won by his ruling United Russia party. The protesters on Saturday demanded an end to Putin's rule and a rerun of the parliamentary election in the biggest popular protests since those that led to the fall of.. More

173687 11/12/2011
Deadly Israeli airstrike hits Gaza

An Israeli airstrike has hit a group of armed men along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, killing one person and injuring at least two others, medical sources say . Adham Abu Salmia , Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, said on Wednesday that the violence erupted when Israeli troops moved into a buffer zone east of Gaza City . The.. More

173639 08/12/2011
Egypt army decree expands PM\'s powers

Egypt's army rulers have issued a decree handing presidential powers to Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri but keeping control of military affairs and the judiciary, the official news agency said . The military, in charge since leader Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February in a popular uprising, has been under pressure to speed a promised transition.. More

173637 08/12/2011
Syria leader denies ordering deadly crackdown

Syria's president has denied that he ordered the deadly crackdown on an almost nine-month-old uprising, saying that he is not in charge of the country's security forces blamed for killing more than 4,000 people. In a rare interview with the US broadcaster ABC airing on Wednesday, Bashar al-Assad maintained that he did not give a command "to.. More

173633 08/12/2011
Egypt vote turnout downgraded amid run-off

Egypt's election commission has lowered its turnout figure from a first round of voting in the country's parliamentary polls from 62 per cent to 52 per cent, citing a mistake in counting. The admission on Monday came as Egyptians again flocked to the polls to cast their ballots in run-off elections for 52 seats in which no clear winner emerged. "Th.. More

173585 06/12/2011
Yemeni death toll rises as protests continue

Forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh have shot dead one woman and wounded six other people when they opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the city of Taiz, medics said. The protest was over an immunity clause in the Gulf-sponsored transition plan which Saleh signed last month to hand power over to his deputy, Vice President Abdrabuh.. More

173583 06/12/2011

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