Middle-East

Anti-Sunni bombing toll 76
BAGHDAD: Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The attacks followed two days of...
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Anti-Sunni bombing toll 76

Sunday 19 May 2013
BAGHDAD: Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months.
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‘Heart eater’ ready to face trial if Assad does

Saturday 18 May 2013
BEIRUT: The Syrian rebel commander who rose to international notoriety for footage of him cutting out and eating the organ of a slain soldier said he was willing to face trial for his actions if Pr
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Obama, Erdogan meet as Syrian war rages

Friday 17 May 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama met Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday as world leaders scramble to find a way to ease Bashar Assad from power
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Yemen Air Force ‘sabotaged’: Crashed jet was downed

Sunday 19 May 2013
Yemen’s Air Force has been the target of “sabotage,” the country’s military aviation chief said in a televised interview, days after a fighter jet crashed in the capital Sanaa.
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Gunmen seize elderly father of Syrian deputy FM

Sunday 19 May 2013
DAMASCUS: Gunmen yesterday abducted the elderly father of Syria’s deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said.
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Enraged by kidnapping, Egypt cops block border

Sunday 19 May 2013
CAIRO: Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again yesterday, stranding hundreds of Palestin
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‘Al-Qaeda’ kills Yemen intelligence officer

Sunday 19 May 2013
ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer in a drive-by attack in the southern city of Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt provi
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Tunisia ups security as Salafists vow to defy ban

Sunday 19 May 2013
TUNIS: Tunisian security forces deployed in strength yesterday after Salafist movement Ansar Al-Sharia called on its hard-line supporters to defy a government ban on its
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Erdogan to sue politician over Assad comparison

Sunday 19 May 2013
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will sue opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu after he compared him to Syria’s embattled president over deadly
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Rain incident: Obama in media storm

Sunday 19 May 2013
WASHINGTON: When the rain began to pour on President Barack Obama during a joint conference with the Turkish premier earlier this week, the US official made a pretty mun
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