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Al Qaeda announces death of Its no. 3 official, Egyptian Yazid

Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, seen on Al-Qaeda's as-Sahab Media.
01 Jun 2010
Washington--Al Qaeda announced Monday that its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family— perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the US campaign against Al Qaeda began. A...
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Hizbullah opens commemorative war museum and trail in south Lebanon

Crowds attended the May 21 inauguration of Mleeta
30 May 2010
Mleeta, Lebanon--Families examine a captured Israeli Merkava tank and the charred remains of armored vehicles and war booty seized from Israeli troops. Lebanese boy scouts pose on grenade launchers and motorcycles and snap photos of each...
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Jihadists challenge Hamas western approach

Palestinian inmates attend Friday prayers at Gaza's main prison controlled by the Hamas security forces in Gaza City.
27 May 2010
Gaza--Hamas accuses radical Islamist Salafi movement identified with global jihad, al-Qaeda of attacking wedding parties, Christian sites, and internet cafes in Gaza Strip Bandleader Jamal Al-Bayouk said he and his musicians would not risk...
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Obama security doctrine stresses diplomacy and economy

President Barack Obama speaks at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington.  
27 May 2010
Washington--The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new national security doctrine that would join diplomatic engagement and economic discipline with military power to bolster America's standing in the world. In a formal break with...
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Reforms transform Syrian economy, but not politics

Syrian soldiers guard a street in the port city of Latakia, 350 km northwest Damascus, March 27, 2011, where armed gangs have taken positions on rooftops across the city according to official sources. Syrian security forces strove to restore order in the northern city of Latakia on Sunday, after two days of chaos that left 15 dead and more than 150 injured in a wave of unrest that has put President Bashar al-Assad under unprecedented pressure.
26 May 2010
Damascus--After delivering a lecture on the increasing role of private banks in Syria, economist Mohammed Ayman al-Maydani got an uncomfortable request from members of the audience to elaborate on a brief reference he made to corruption in...
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Meles triumphs in Ethiopia elections

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi waves to supporters at the Meskel Square in Addis Ababa.
25 May 2010
Addis Ababa--Meles Zenawi, a young rebel who dropped out of medical school to go to war against east Africa's biggest army, had contracted malaria and was close to death, hiding near a river in remote northern Ethiopia. His father, the...
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SKorea resumes psychological warfare with NKorea

Anti-North Korea protesters chant slogans at a rally in Seoul.
25 May 2010
Seoul--South Korea blared propaganda broadcasts into North Korea on Tuesday after a six-year halt and Pyongyang said its troops were bracing for war as tensions spiked on the divided peninsula over the sinking of a warship. One Seoul-based...
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Tehran gives fuel swap offer to IAEA

A suspected uranium-enrichment facility near Qom, 156 km southwest of Tehran is seen in this September 27, 2009 satellite photograph released by DigitalGlobe on September 28, 2009.  
24 May 2010
Vienna--Seeking to evade new UN sanctions, Iran on Monday formally submitted its plan to swap some of its enriched uranium for reactor fuel and said the onus was on world powers to defuse tensions by accepting the deal. The development was...
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Ethiopia's Meles says will win poll, rejects gripes

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi walks before casting his vote in the northern Ethiopian town of Adwa, his constituency and birthplace, 985 km from the capital Addis Ababa.
23 May 2010
Adwa, Ethiopia--Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he expects to be returned to power in national elections on Sunday and rejected accusations that the first vote since a violent 2005 poll would be a fraud. "I think so," Meles said...
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Jerusalem patriarch rules out apology to Shenouda

16 May 2010
Jerusalem--In exclusive remarks to Al-Masry Al-Youm, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theopholis III, says he is unfazed by the withdrawal of the Coptic Church from the Middle East Council of Churches in a dispute...
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