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US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart

May 23rd, 2013 No comments

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Young, Pool)JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any talks.

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Syria opposition welcomes support for Assad ouster

May 23rd, 2013 No comments

BEIRUT (AP) — A spokesman says Syria’s main opposition bloc welcomes renewed calls by its foreign supporters that Syrian President Bashar Assad give up power at the start of any political transition aimed at ending the country’s civil war.
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2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt

May 23rd, 2013 No comments

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 28, 2010 file photo, relatives of the 26 suspected Hezbollah members, accused of plotting attacks on tourists and shipping in the Suez Canal and sending operatives and explosives to Gaza to help militant groups there, waves to prison vehicles carrying them outside Emergency State Security Court in New Cairo, Egypt. It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's 2011 revolution: Attacks on prisons that broke out more than 20,000 inmates, among them Hamas and Hezbollah militants and Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including the man who is now the country’s president, Mohammed Morsi. Now a court case is trying to uncover for the first time who was behind the attacks, raising political headaches for Morsi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)CAIRO (AP) — It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.

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Kerry: US, allies ready to step up aid to rebels

May 22nd, 2013 No comments

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, right, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria’s opposition to help them “fight for the freedom of their country” if President Bashar Assad’s regime doesn’t engage in peace talks in good faith. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid.

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Egypt leader claims victory in captives’ release

May 22nd, 2013 No comments

This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country.

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Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels

May 22nd, 2013 No comments

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, right, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria’s opposition to help them “fight for the freedom of their country” if President Bashar Assad’s regime doesn’t engage in peace talks in good faith. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid.

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Ahmadinejad aide disqualified from Iranian presidential race

May 22nd, 2013 No comments

TEHRAN – Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of “oppression”. He announced plans to take up the case with …
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Meet the secular, US-approved Fee Syrian Army

May 22nd, 2013 No comments

This from a UN source: “the rate of school attendance at Zaatari is dropping drastically because FSA in the camp is asking parents to send their kids to the mosque instead where they get religious teaching… what a future!
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Rendition project

May 22nd, 2013 No comments
“They beat me and kicked me, roughing me up badly. Another person took pictures of me, and then one of them forcefully stuck his finger into my anus. I was in severe pain and began to faint.“”

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"Sexual assaults in South Korea by U.S. military"

May 22nd, 2013 No comments
“The report paints a grimmer picture of the climate surrounding sexual assaults in Korea than that portrayed by U.S. military officials.” (thanks Amir)

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