Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Marketplace car bomb kills 10 in northeast Iraq (AP)

A U.S. soldier prepares ammunition at Camp Echo in Diwaniya, 150 km (95 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, November 27, 2011. Camp Echo's dusty motorpools are empty, its private contract caterers have long gone home and murals depicting the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York's twin towers have been painted over. Picture taken November 27, 2011. To match story IRAQ-WITHDRAWAL/TROOPS REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY)AP - Iraqi officials say a car bomb explosion has killed 10 people in a marketplace in a town northeast of Baghdad.



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Resumption of Israeli transfers averts PA crisis (AP)

A tourist looks on near a wooden bridge leading to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, known by the Jews as the Temple Mount is seen in Jerusalem's Old city, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. An Israeli official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed renovations next to a sensitive Jerusalem holy site to avoid inflaming opinion in the Arab world. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government narrowly dodged a full-blown cash crisis after Israel agreed Wednesday — under intense international pressure — to resume the transfer of $100 million a month in frozen tax funds.



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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Biden swoops into Iraq as U.S. troop pullout nears (Reuters)

Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday in a visit to mark the end of the U.S. war in Iraq as troops complete withdrawal by year-end.


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Palestinian president sets May 4 election (AP)

Austrian President Heinz Fischer, right, welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Nov 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday set May 4 as the date for general elections meant to end a long-standing rift that has left his people divided between rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.



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Rockets fired across Lebanon, Israel border (Reuters)

Reuters - An exchange of rocket fire hit the Lebanese-Israeli border Tuesday in the first such incident since 2009, coming at a time of heightened regional tensions over Syria and Iran's nuclear program.


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Sunday, 27 November 2011

The war in Iraq: soldiers assess 'peaks and valleys,' prospects of a final attack (The Christian Science Monitor)

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Saturday, 26 November 2011

Multiple Baghdad blasts kill at least 13 people (Reuters)

ADDS NAME OF CHILD AND UPDATES THAT THE WOMAN HAS BEEN FOUND - In this undated family photo made available Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, Mona al-Gharib, left, poses for a photo with her 18-month-old son, Forat in Alexandria, Egypt. An Egypt-based Syrian dissident says his 25-year-old pregnant wife has been found in Cairo more than 24 hours after she was abducted. Thaer al-Nashef says his wife, Mona al-Gharib, was kidnapped Friday afternoon as she walked to her parents house in the Egyptian capital. Al-Nashef said she was found unconscious, but alive, by an elderly woman on a Cairo street Saturday afternoon. He had no immediate details on her condition.(AP Photo/Courtesy Thaer al-Nashef)Reuters - Three bombs exploded in a commercial Baghdad district and another blast hit the city's western outskirts on Saturday, killing at least 13 people, police and hospital sources said.



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Friday, 25 November 2011

UN report: North Korean harvest improves (AP)

AP - U.N. food agencies say that North Korea's main harvest has improved but warn that malnutrition persists.


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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Bombs in Iraq market kill 10, wound dozens (Reuters)

Security forces inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Three bombs went off in a popular open-air market Thursday evening, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Reuters - Three bombs exploded in a market in Iraq's southern oil city of Basra Thursday, killing at least ten people and wounding dozens, security sources said.



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Buoyed by unrest report, Bahrainis confront police (Reuters)

Reuters - Bahrainis, emboldened by a rights enquiry that found evidence of systematic abuse during the crushing of pro-democracy protests this year, clashed with police on Thursday after the funeral of a Shi'ite man who died a day earlier.


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New Libyan government sworn in (AP)

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks to reporters after a press conference in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Moreno-Ocampo says Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam will be tried in a Libyan court by Libyan judges and announced that the ICC will help Libya establish the judicial framework for the trial, which many expect to be a bellwether of the new Libyan government's ability to uphold the rule of law. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)AP - Libya's transitional government has been sworn in before the country's interim leader, another step along to the oil-rich country's roadmap to elections next year.



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UN rights official urges Maldives to stop flogging (AP)

AP - The U.N. human rights chief urged the Maldives on Thursday to end the "degrading" practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage.


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Libya vows to work with ICC in case of Gadhafi son (AP)

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks to reporters after a press conference in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Moreno-Ocampo says Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam will be tried in a Libyan court by Libyan judges and announced that the ICC will help Libya establish the judicial framework for the trial, which many expect to be a bellwether of the new Libyan government's ability to uphold the rule of law. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)AP - A prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says that Libya's transitional leaders have vowed to work with his institution and with the United Nations in investigating alleged crimes committed by Moammar Gadhafi's recently captured son and one-time heir apparent.



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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

U.N. chief appoints Slovakia's Kubis as Afghan envoy (Reuters)

Afghan residents walk past a U.S. Army convoy during an road clearance patrol in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan November 23, 2011. Picture taken November 23, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY)Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Slovak diplomat Jan Kubis as his next special envoy to Afghanistan, a challenging post that will be changing hands for the third time in four years.



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Palestinians hope for US reserve over UNESCO funds (AP)

CAPTION CORRECTION, CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME - Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki poses for a photograph outside the British Foreign Office in London, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Al-Malki said Wednesday he hopes the United States can be persuaded to reverse its decision to cut funds to UNESCO now that the U.N. agency has voted to give the Palestinians membership. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - The Palestinian foreign minister said Wednesday he hopes the United States can be persuaded to reverse its decision to cut funds to UNESCO now that the U.N. agency has voted to give the Palestinians membership.



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Yemen president of 33 years quits amid uprising (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, center, with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, and his Yemeni counterpart Ali Abdullah Saleh, left, pose during a group picture with Arab and African leaders during the second Afro-Arab summit in Sirte, Libya. Saleh has signed an agreement to transfer power to his vice president. Saleh was shown on Arabic satellite television stations Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011signing a proposal by his country's powerful Gulf Arab neighbors to end his country's 9-month old uprising. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)AP - Yemen's authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed Wednesday to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power. The U.S. and its powerful Gulf allies pressed for the deal, concerned that a security collapse in the impoverished Arab nation was allowing an active al-Qaida franchise to gain a firmer foothold.



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Yemen's Saleh to get medical treatment in NY: U.N. (Reuters)

Reuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon he will come to New York for medical treatment immediately after signing a deal that would ease him out of power, Ban said on Wednesday.


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Bahrain report: excessive force in crackdowns (AP)

A Bahraini woman walks down a narrow street in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, painted and repainted with anti-government graffiti and hung with religious banners for the Islamic month of Muharram, a time of Shiite mourning for Imam Hussein, grandson of Islam's founding prophet Mohamed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - In a stinging blow to Bahrain's leaders, a special commission that investigated the kingdom's unrest charged Wednesday that authorities used torture, excessive force and fast-track justice in crackdowns on the largest Arab Spring uprising in the Gulf.



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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Law protecting Afghan women has "long way to go": U.N. (Reuters)

Retired Maj. General Tom Cole, foreground left, assist with the Casing of the Unit Colors during a deployment ceremony for the 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, or 'Arrowhead Brigade, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Wash., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. Beginning in December, about 3,000 soldiers from the 3rd Brigade will deploy to southern Afghanistan to conduct counter-insurgency operations. Though the unit has deployed three times to Iraq, this is their first deployment to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Janet Jensen)Reuters - Afghan authorities are failing to enforce the law to protect women from murder, beating, rape and other violence and being sold into marriage and prostitution, the United Nations said on Wednesday.



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US, Russia back Israel at Mideast meeting (AP)

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Turkey tells Syria's Assad: Step down! (Reuters)

Demonstrators against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad take part in a march after Friday prayers in Kafranbel near Adlb November 18, 2011. The banner (top L) reads, Reuters - Turkey bluntly told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down for the sake of his people, tightening regional pressure on Damascus while the wider world condemned Syria's violent crackdown on protests in a vote at the United Nations.



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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,485 (AP)

AP - As of Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at least 4,485 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


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Middle East nuke talks "positive" despite Iran boycott (Reuters)

Reuters - Middle East states showed an "open and constructive" approach in rare talks on banning nuclear arms in the region, the U.N. atomic agency chief said on Tuesday, but absent Iran dismissed the meeting as a waste of time.


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Monday, 21 November 2011

Syria accuses Europeans of diplomatic war (AP)

AP - Syria's U.N. ambassador accused European powers on Monday of declaring political and diplomatic war against his country by sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would condemn Syria's human rights violations.


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UN: At least 1 million Zimbabweans facing hunger (AP)

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Bahrain charges 20 with abuse of protesters (AP)

AP - Authorities in Bahrain say prosecutors have charged 20 members of the security forces for alleged abuse of protesters during a Shiite-led uprising against the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers.


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Sunday, 20 November 2011

Grenade blasts bring violence to Syrian capital (AP)

A general view of the ruling Baath party headquarters, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Nov. 20, 2011. Residents in the Syrian capital awoke to two loud explosions Sunday amid reports from activists that the Damascus headquarters of the ruling Baath party had been hit by several rocket-propelled grenades. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Rocket-propelled grenades struck the headquarters of Syria's ruling party Sunday, bringing the violence that has engulfed much of the country to the heart of its capital for the first time, activists said.



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Blasts in Syrian capital as Assad vows crackdown (AP)

Pro-Syrian regime protesters carry a huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration to show their solidarity with their president, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Nov. 20, 2011. Residents in the Syrian capital awoke to two loud explosions Sunday amid reports from activists that the Damascus headquarters of the ruling Baath party had been hit by several rocket-propelled grenades. But eyewitnesses said the party headquarters appeared intact and reported no significant security deployment around it. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Loud explosions rocked the Syrian capital Sunday, and activists said it was a rare attack on a government building, as the country's defiant president vowed to pursue his bloody crackdown on dissent.



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