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U.S. army instructor shot in Yemen attack: security source
SANAA (Reuters) – A U.S. military instructor helping train Yemeni coastguards was shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Red Sea city of Hudaida on Sunday, a Yemeni security source said. The source said two other U.S. instructors, who were travelling in the same car, were not hurt in the [...]
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Family of Hamas figure seeks to block Israel movie
Relatives of a slain Hamas operative seek to block the release of a movie being made in Israel about his 2010 assassination in a Dubai luxury hotel, a family member said Sunday.
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Jailed Israeli president freed briefly
A prison spokeswoman says Israel’s jailed former president has been freed for a few hours to attend his son’s wedding.
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Egypt’s Brotherhood goes all out for presidency
TANTA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood planned a mass climax to its presidential campaign on Sunday, hoping to sway undecided voters and clinch victory in this week’s election when Egyptians will choose their leader freely for the first time. On the last day of official campaigning, the Brotherhood told Egyptians to “book your place [...]
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Egypt’s would-be “president of the poor” touts past
QALYUB, Egypt (Reuters) – The motorcade of Hamdeen Sabahy, a dark horse in Egypt’s presidential race, inched over the bumpy roads of this Egyptian town led by a car booming 1960s nationalist music in homage to his hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The smiling leftist politician has a long history of opposition, first to Nasser’s successor [...]
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Sudan army frees captured UN deminers
Four United Nations deminers arrested by the Sudanese army along the country’s tense southern border were released on Sunday and turned over to chief African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki, the defence minister said.
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Son: Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing is dead
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack’s 270 victims. He was 60.
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Sudan releases four detained foreigners: officials
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan has released four foreigners detained near the border with South Sudan following weeks of heavy clashes between the two African neighbours, officials said on Sunday. Sudan said it had arrested the four – a Briton, a Norwegian, a South African and a South Sudanese – last month, accusing them of illegally [...]
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Explosion near U.N. ceasefire monitor chief’s convoy: Reuters witness
DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) – A roadside bomb exploded on Sunday about 150 meters (yards) from a United Nations convoy carrying the head of a Syria ceasefire monitoring mission and a senior U.N. official in the town of Douma, a Reuters witness said. Major General Robert Mood’s car was stopped at an army checkpoint when the [...]
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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials.
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