Tag: middle east
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November 07, 2009 06:05 AM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A top Iranian lawmaker has rejected the possibility of Iran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment.
The call by prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi . . .
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November 07, 2009 06:39 AM EST --
EL-BIREH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian uncle of Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan says his nephew loved America and wanted to serve his country.
Hasan allegedy shot 13 people . . .
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November 07, 2009 07:51 AM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian police have detained 109 people for "disturbing public order" during an opposition rally this week, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Azizollah Rajabzadeh, . . .
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November 07, 2009 08:27 AM EST --
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year.
Abdullah . . .
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November 07, 2009 02:27 PM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's . . .
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November 07, 2009 04:15 PM EST --
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Saudi warplanes and artillery bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen Saturday for a third straight day, according to the rebel fighters, and Yemen's president . . .
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November 07, 2009 07:13 AM EST --
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Syrian-backed factions finally agreed on a unity government proposed by their pro-Western rivals on Saturday, ending a four-month deadlock in the deeply divided country. . . .
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May 15, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
From CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry
JERUSALEM (CNN) – In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other . . .
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September 30, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
"Fear is, I believe, a most effective
tool in destroying the soul of an
individual -- and the soul of a people."
-- Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was the third president . . .
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November 06, 2009 05:27 PM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence.
Neither . . .
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November 07, 2009 06:05 AM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the . . .
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November 07, 2009 02:27 PM EST --
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's president has called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a commemoration for the assassinated . . .
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November 07, 2009 12:37 PM EST --
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though . . .
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December 02, 2007 01:05 PM EST --
It's about time she started doing her job and not just seem like Bush's press agent. But for all her good intentions can she get a two state solution? Where is it going to come from? . . .
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November 06, 2009 03:41 PM EST --
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A cousin of the man suspected of shooting fellow soldiers at a Texas military base says he had little contact with his Palestinian relatives in the West Bank but had told . . .
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November 06, 2009 03:41 PM EST --
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to . . .
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November 06, 2009 04:52 PM EST --
CAIRO (AP) — An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's postelection turmoil, including one that was . . .
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March 18, 2009 09:37 PM EDT --
I read the following quote in my Newsweek today, and I damn near spit out my coffee, and fell out of my chair.
If we give the money to the widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated, . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Friday it carried airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to continue the military . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said on Friday that a U.N. General Assembly decision to endorse a report accusing the Jewish state of war crimes lacked the support of the world's "moral majority."
In . . .
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