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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Wave of coordinated attacks in Iraq kills 127
AP via Yahoo! News - 36 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 1 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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Syria says bus blast not terrorism, but circumstances unclear
The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Dec 4, 8:28 am ETSyria says a large bus explosion Thursday near a shrine frequented by Iranian Shiites was caused by excessive tire pressure, not terrorism.
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Series of Deadly Bombings Rocks Baghdad
CBS News - 2 hours 57 minutes agoOfficials Confirm at Least 127 Killed in Coordinated String of Explosions Targeting Government Offices
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Suspected Lebanese arms dealer agrees to detention
WFMJ Youngstown - Mon Dec 7, 4:53 pm ETPHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Lebanese man won't fight detention on charges he came to Philadelphia to buy a cache of missiles and machine guns. An indictment last month says Dani Tarraf hoped to ship the weapons to "the Resistance" in Iran or Syria.
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Iran accuses U.S., Israel of kidnapping
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 6:18 pm ETTEHRAN, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The United States and Israel kidnapped an Iranian atomic scientist and a senior Defense Ministry official, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki charged Tuesday.
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Bam has become a handi-wipe for Islamo-thugs
New York Post - Tue Dec 8, 6:06 pm ETIt took our sworn enemies hardly any time at all to deliver a bloody and bombastic response to President Obama’s meek speech on US foreign policy in Afghanistan. Within 48 hours of Bam’s December 1 state address about bolstering US forces in the drug...
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Iraq: More bombings to come as polls near
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 12:00 pm ETBAGHDAD, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Tuesday's surge of spectacular car bombings across Baghdad that killed more than 100 people, the third such wave since August, underlines the inadequacies of Iraq's security apparatus and the deep-rooted opposition to the recent shift toward Iranian-friendly Shiite politics.
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Bus accident on Syria-Iraq road kills 12
EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 8:01 am ETDamascus - A bus and a lorry collided Sunday on the road between Damascus and Baghdad, killing 12 people and injuring seven, the Syrian news agency reported. The accident took place on the Syrian side of the border, the SANA agency said, noting that ...
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Russia wants more Israeli spy drones
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 11:48 am ETTEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Russia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it has with dollars and cents.
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Syria says explosion near bus was accident, 3 dead
Boston Herald - Fri Dec 4, 7:18 am ETDAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's interior minister said an explosion near a bus parked at a gas station in a Damascus suburb was an accident and three people were killed. The...
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Obama welcomes Ankara's PKK efforts
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 12:04 pm ETWASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The steps taken by Ankara to address lingering issues with the Kurdish minority and separatists are considered helpful, the U.S. president said in Washington.
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