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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Jordanian king asks Samir Refai to form new cabinet - Update
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 9:02 am ETAmman - Jordan's King Abdullah on Wednesday asked Samir Refai to form a new cabinet after accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Nader Dahabi, a royal court statement said. Refai, a former royal cabinet minister, is son of the current speaker of...
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Brussels grants 1.5 billion euros to clean energy projects
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 9:02 am ETBrussels - The European Union's executive on Wednesday granted over 1.5 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars) in aid to 15 experimental clean energy projects. The decision is part of a package of measures designed to fight the European recession and co...
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Iran releases three Belgians detained for illegal entry
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 7:31 am ETTehran - Iran released three Belgian nationals who had been detained for two months on charges of having illegally entered the country for collecting information, Tehran media reported Wednesday. The three Belgians were handed over to the Belgian amb...
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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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Syria bus blast kills 3, terrorism ruled out
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 11:46 am ETA powerful blast wrecked an Iranian pilgrim bus near a Shiite shrine in Damascus on Thursday, killing three people in an incident Syria said was caused by a tyre blow-out and not a terrorist attack.
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No Bail For Alleged Hezbollah Member
OfficialWire - Wed Dec 9, 5:42 am ETA 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. Dani Nemar Tarraf, 38, was arrested in Philadelphia after a two-year undercover investigation, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.
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Strategy Page - Wed Dec 9, 5:17 am ETDecember 9, 2009: Negotiations to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity continue to be stalled. Hamas wants fifty hard core terrorists with, as Israel calls it, "blood on their hands" freed in exchange for Shalit.
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Lebanese prime minister plans to visit Syria after confidence vote
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 2:46 pm ETBeirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Friday he is planning visits to a series of Western and Arab countries, including Syria, assuming he wins a vote of confidence before the Lebanese parliament next week. We look positively at the step...
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Flying Public Shudders at Devastating TSA Security Breach as Agency Gives Away Its Secrets
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 8:07 am ETTSA Online posting reveals a "how to" for terrorists to fool airport security
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Iraq beefs up security along Iran, Syria borders
WashingtonTV - Fri Dec 4, 12:22 pm ETWashington, 4 December (WashingtonTV)—Iraq has purchased a 49 million dollar border surveillance system to better secure its borders with Iran and Syria, the US military said on Friday.
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Syria's Assad: Israel not 'ready' for peace
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