Thais find possible bomb link in Thai, India attacks
BANGKOK, (Reuters) - Thai investigators believe they have found a link between this week's bomb blasts in Bangkok and New Delhi, a senior security official said on Wednesday, two of three botched attacks Israel has blamed on Iran.
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Egypt to hold presidential poll in May: report
CAIRO, (Reuters) - Egypt's first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown a year ago will be held by late May, Wednesday's state newspaper al-Ahram quoted a government minister as saying.
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Pakistan releases U.S. man after "bullets found in baggage"
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. embassy employee was released after being held for questioning in Pakistan on Tuesday when airport security officials discovered bullets in his luggage, police said.
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Egypt releases Australian journalist, US student
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have released an Australian journalist, his Egyptian translator and an American student detained last week for allegedly inciting people to strike.
The prosecutor general's office in Cairo informed media on Tuesday ... more |
Britain frees radical cleric Abu Qatada
LONDON (Reuters) - A radical cleric once described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" was freed from a British prison to live under virtual house arrest on Monday after a court ruled that his detention without trial was unlawful.
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Fresh violence in Syria as UN warns of civil war
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces renewed their assault on the rebellious city of Homs on Tuesday, activists said, as the U.N. human rights chief raised fears of civil war.
Troops loyal to President Bashar Assad have been shelling Homs for more ... more |
Doha Agreement valid despite Al-Zahar’s statements – Hamas
London, Asharq al-Awsat- An official from the Change and Reform bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council has stated the remarks by Hamas’s Mahmud al-Zahar concerning the Doha declaration and designation of President Mahmud Abbas, to form a transitional ... more |
Bin Laden told children 'live in peace in the West'
LONDON , (AFP) — Slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to go live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in-law said in an interview published Sunday.
Zakaria al-Sadah, the brother of bin Laden's Yemeni ... more |
Iranians get back Internet email access
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Many Iranian web users say their access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail appears to have been restored after a four day outage.
Elaheh Ansari and Reza Estiar are among dozens of Internet users who ... more |
Egypt police negligence led to stadium deaths: inquiry
CAIRO, (AFP) — An Egyptian parliamentary inquiry blamed police negligence for a football riot that killed more than 70 fans earlier this month, official media said on Monday.
The preliminary report said police at the stadium in the Mediterranean city ... more |
NATO admits killing Afghan children in air strike
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area.
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Arab League wants UN peacekeepers in Syria
CAIRO (AP) — The Arab League has called for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad's regime, the League's latest effort to bring an end ... more |
FSA denies claims Israeli weapons seized in Homs
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat- The Free Syrian Army [FSA] and Syrian revolution coordination committees have categorically rejected reports published in the Syrian Al-Watan newspaper that "the competent authorities were able after violent clashes with gunmen ... more |
Al Qaeda leader backs Syrian revolt against Assad
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their uprising to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
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Palestinian unity deal a mistake: Gaza Hamas leader
CAIRO , (AFP)— Senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar slammed a Palestinian unity deal as a "mistake" that has thrown the Islamist movement into crisis, in an interview with Egypt's official MENA agency published on Sunday.
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Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebel bases in north Iraq
ISTANBUL, (AFP) — Turkish jets have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, home to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the army said on Sunday.
"Two groups of targets belonging to the separatist terrorists in the regions ... more |
Arabs end Syrian mission, seek joint UN force
CAIRO, (Reuters) - The Arab League called on Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to send a joint U.N.-Arab peacekeeping mission to Syria and decided to scrap its own monitoring team, according to a resolution approved by ministers and obtained by ... more |
Jihadists, weapons 'moving from Iraq to Syria'
BAGHDAD, (AFP) — Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria and arms are also sent across the border to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iraq's deputy interior minister said in an interview with AFP on Saturday.
Adnan al-Assadi also ... more |
Two Westerners kidnapped in Pakistan held by Taliban
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan in January are being held by the Pakistan Taliban near the border with Afghanistan, a senior militant commander told Reuters on Saturday.
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