Lebanon's Hariri keen on improving ties with Syria
AFP - Tue Dec 8, 9:58 am ETLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
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Syria and Iran discuss water and energy
UPI - Mon Dec 7, 12:43 pm ETDAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Syria's history of water resource management can only benefit by an expanded working relationship with Iran, the Syrian irrigation minister said.
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Netanyahu: Israel wants direct Syria talks
UPI - Mon Dec 7, 2:20 pm ETJERUSALEM, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Israel is ready and willing to conduct direct negotiations with Syria without preconditions, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said.
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Syria to Double Imports of Gasoil Next Year, Oil Minister Says
Bloomberg - Sun Dec 6, 7:22 pm ETDec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Syria plans to double imports of gasoil to 2.5 million metric tons next year as stocks are declining, Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Al-Alao said.
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Twelve dead in Syria bus crash
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 7:37 am ETTwelve people were killed and seven injured in a collision in thick fog on Sunday between a bus and a truck headed for Iraq in northeast Syria, the official news agency SANA reported.
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Netanyahu: Israel ready to negotiate with Syria
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Mon Dec 7, 10:43 am ETIsrael is ready for direct negotiations with Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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Syria and Iran expand energy, economic cooperation
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 3:46 am ETDamascus - Syria and Iran agreed to expand their cooperation in the fields of energy, technology and utilization of water resources, state media in Damascus reported Monday. Iranian Minister of Energy Majid Namjou met in the Syrian capital with Syria...
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Israeli PM prefers French for Syrian mediation
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 2:09 pm ETIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he would prefer French rather than Turkish mediation in the event that indirect talks with Syria are revived.
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Vanguard students create positive art for new DeVos Children’s Hospital
MLive.com - Tue Dec 8, 3:34 pm ETBrian Forde Vanguard Charter Academy students Syria Chapman, 11, and Jaclyn Bruining, 10, paint pictures that could soon be hanging on the walls at the new DeVos Children’s Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids.
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Lebanon's Hariri to visit Syria
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 2:14 pm ETLebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Friday he will be visiting long-time foe Syria after parliament grants his government a vote of confidence, but gave no date for the trip.
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Iraq buys border security system for Iran, Syria frontiers
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:47 pm ETIraq has bought a 49-million-dollar border surveillance system to better secure its porous frontiers with neighbouring Iran and Syria, the US military said on Friday.
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Wave of coordinated attacks in Iraq kills 127
AP via Yahoo! News - 48 minutes agoA suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near the Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority. At least 127 people were killed.
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Sensitive air security doc posted in error on Net
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 14 minutes agoThe federal government improperly posted an internal guide to its airport passenger screening procedures on the Internet in a way that could offer insight into how to sidestep security.
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Rights under growing threat in China: analysts
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 7:05 pm ETHuman rights are increasingly under threat in China, according to a British firm which analyses dangers for business worldwide, while also describing risks in Russia, Nigeria and India as extreme.
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Rights group reports violations in Arab countries
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 2:54 pm ETU.S.-allied Arab governments in the Middle East are flouting human rights through violations including torture, extra-judicial killings and repressive laws, an Egyptian human rights group said Tuesday.
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Arab countries flop on human rights: report
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 10:53 am ETHuman rights deteriorated across the Arab world in 2009 with torture widely practised in several countries, namely Egypt, an Arab watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday.
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