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Gates: US Remains Cautious Over Libyan Rebels

Representatives from the Libyan opposition are in Washington this week to meet senior U.S. officials in a bid to win more foreign assistance to help topple Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.  But the...

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Taliban Revenge Bombing Kills 80 in Pakistan

Pakistan officials say the death toll from the twin suicide bombing of a paramilitary training center in the northwest has risen to 80. Pakistan’s Taliban says it carried out Friday’s attack as...

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NATO Strikes Gadhafi Compound in Tripoli

NATO bombs hit government buildings in the Libyan capital Tripoli Thursday the same day NATO’s secretary general visited Washington. A Libyan resistance leader, also visiting the U.S. capital, says...

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CIA Director: Torture Did Not Lead To Osama Bin Laden

John McCain writes: I asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he told me the following: The trail to bin Laden did not begin with a disclosure from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who was...

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Syria Braces for More Anti-Regime Protests

Syrian government forces expanded their crackdown on public opposition Thursday uprising, deploying tanks around the historic city of Hama, where the Syrian regime crushed a revolt almost 20 years...

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Gadhafi’s Tripoli Compound Hit After TV Appearance

NATO warplanes have attacked Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s compound in Tripoli, hours after he made his first appearance on Libyan television since last month. Libyan authorities took reporters to...

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Syrian Activists Say Government Tanks Deploying Around Hama

Syrian activists say government forces expanded their crackdown Thursday on an opposition uprising, deploying tanks around the historic city of Hama, where the Syrian regime crushed a revolt almost 20...

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Officials: Bin Laden Urged Followers to Attack US

U.S. officials say Osama bin Laden’s handwritten journal shows the al-Qaida leader urging his followers to focus on targeting the United States in a large-scale attack. Media reports quote the...

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Dozens Wounded as Yemeni Forces Fire on Protesters

Dozens were wounded Thursday as fresh clashes erupted between Yemeni security forces and protesters, a day after at least nine people were killed in anti-government unrest. News organizations quoting...

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NATO Admits Killing Girl in Afghan Raid

NATO says a combined Afghan and coalition force has killed a young girl and an Afghan policeman during an operation against a Taliban leader in eastern Afghanistan. The incident took place Wednesday...

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Senegal Quranic School Puts Children First

Quranic schools in Senegal gained much unwanted attention last year with a damning report by Human Rights Watch that said many schools were enslaving their students to beg for money. One Quranic...

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UN Secretary-General Calls for Libya Cease-Fire

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he spoke to Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi by telephone Tuesday evening and conveyed his concerns about the need to protect the civilian population....

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Egyptian Islamist Calls for Tolerance of Coptic Christians

Violence between Egypt’s Coptic Christians and conservative Muslims has led to calls for tolerance from some unlikely sources. The allegiance of the men gathered outside a mosque in central Assyut is...

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Obama to Deliver Mideast Policy Address

The White House confirmed Wednesday that President Barack Obama will deliver a speech, possibly before his upcoming European trip, to renew his outreach to the Muslim world and lay out his vision for...

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Activists: Syrian Tanks, Troops Kill 19 People in South, West

Syrian rights activists say government forces have fired on residential areas in the south and west of the country, killing at least 19 people in a crackdown on protests against President Bashar...

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Bin Laden Journal Discusses Terror Operations

U.S. officials say Osama bin Laden’s journal contains information about future terror plots, and shows the al-Qaida leader was communicating with other terrorists. The officials, who spoke on the...

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US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills 5 Militants

Pakistani officials say a U.S. drone aircraft has fired missiles at a vehicle in the northwest tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least five suspected militants. The officials said the...

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Rockets Strike Libyan Capital

Explosions rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, early Thursday, from what witnesses say were apparent NATO strikes. Libyan government officials say at least four rockets targeted a compound in the...

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Libyan Rebels Gain Ground in Misrata

Libyan rebels say they gained ground in the besieged port city of Misrata, while United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged the Libyan government stop its assault and allow humanitarian...

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At Least 2 Dead in Escalating Yemen Clashes

At least two people were killed and at least five others were wounded Wednesday in Yemen as massive rallies continued demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemen’s main industrial...

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