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Hezbollah sucked more deeply into Syria civil war
BEIRUT: Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria’s civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria...
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Driver plows into dozens of hikers

Monday 20 May 2013
NEW YORK: Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause
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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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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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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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Blasts rock Libya’s capital and eastern city

Saturday 18 May 2013
RIPOLI, Libya: Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.
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