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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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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Israel parliament to vote on land-for-peace law
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:03 am ETThe Israeli parliament was set to vote Wednesday on a bill requiring a referendum to approve a pullout from annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal, officials said.
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Police: Bomb hidden in trash kills 2 in Baghdad
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 2:05 am ETAn Iraqi police official says a bomb hidden in a garbage heap has killed two people in northern Baghdad.
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Militants strike Baghdad govt targets, 127 dead
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:33 am ETA 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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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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Air Security Guide Inadvertently Posted
New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 12:13 am ETThe 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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TSA accidentally reveals airport security secrets
Washington Post - Wed Dec 9, 12:00 am ETThe Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
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TSA document online
UPI - 2 hours 45 minutes agoBy United Press International WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A 93-page document regarding U.S. airport security measures was posted on the Internet, giving details of passenger screening operations.
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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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No bail for alleged Hezbollah member
UPI - Wed Dec 9, 12:03 am ETPHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A Lebanese man who allegedly told U.S. agents he is a member of Hezbollah has been ordered held without bail by a federal judge in Philadelphia.
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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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Iraqi leader asks for patience after bombings
The Champaign News-Gazette - 40 minutes agoBAGHDAD (AP) – The prime minister appealed Wednesday to Iraqis to stand by their security forces, even as angry lawmakers demanded answers and called on top officials to resign following the third massive attack against government sites since summer. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his interior minister were expected to appear before a special parliamentary session Thursday to answer ...
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