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Residents: Many arrests in Syria's Deraa

A sign being held up during protests in Banias, in northeastern Syria, on April 19, 2011. Syria's government approved a bill to rescind a decades-old emergency law and agreed to abolish the state security court, after weeks of pro-democracy protests and hundreds of deaths.
01 May 2011
Amman -- Syrian authorities are carrying out a wave of arrests in the city of Deraa in their latest move to crush protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, residents said on Sunday. The residents said they had seen packed...
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Syrians protest from rooftops after army action

01 May 2011
Amman -- Women and children in the besieged Syrian city of Deraa chanted "God is greatest against the tyrant" from rooftops in the night after troops backed by tanks intensified a crackdown on the city, a resident said. Troops...
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Oil official: NATO hits Qadhafi convoy in east

01 May 2011
Benghazi -- A NATO air strike destroyed 45 vehicles of Muammar Qadhafi's forces after they had killed at least five civilians in fighting in two east Libyan towns, an oil official and a rebel spokesman said on Sunday. Qadhafi forces...
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Gulf deal to end Yemen's crisis thrown into doubt

Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) arrives in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, 10 April, 2011.
01 May 2011
Sanaa -- A deal mediated by a Gulf bloc to end Yemen's political crisis has been thrown into doubt by the country's leader saying he will not personally sign it. Officials from President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling party say...
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Syrian forces shell restive city, roll in more reinforcements

01 May 2011
Cairo -- Syrian army tanks shelled the old quarter of a city at the heart of the country’s six-week-old uprising Sunday and rolled in more reinforcements to the area, which has been under siege for nearly a week, said an eyewitness....
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Palestinian unity deal is setback for US-led peace effort

01 May 2011
Washington - Moves by the Obama administration to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have hit a new snag with a Palestinian unity deal, as US clout in the Arab world wanes, analysts say. The deal between the secularist Fatah and...
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Libyan govt: Qadhafi survives air strikes, son killed

Libyan President Muammar Qadhafi was elected head of the African Union one year ago.
01 May 2011
Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday. Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by...
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Suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 19 in Northern Iraq

30 Apr 2011
Mosul -- Eight people were killed and 19 wounded on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an Iraqi army checkpoint next to a market in the northern city of Mosul, police and hospital sources said. Attacks against Iraq's...
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Taliban announce beginning of spring offensive

Two members of the Taliban stand on a hill in Wardak, West of Kabul, 2008.
30 Apr 2011
Kabul -- The Taliban announced the beginning of their spring military offensive against the US-led coalition Saturday, a day after a new Pentagon report claimed that the militants' fighting spirit was low after sustaining heavy losses...
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Yemen's Saleh due to sign transition deal

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh attends the opening session of the second Arab Economic Summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, January 19, 2011. This summit is the first meeting of Arab heads of state since a popular uprising in Tunisia led to the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali last week.
30 Apr 2011
Sanaa -- Yemen's president was to sign an agreement on Saturday to quit power in a month's time in exchange for immunity in a deal that, if implemented, would make him the third Arab ruler ousted by a wave of popular uprisings. Ali...
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