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Iran presses rival Saudi Arabia over Gulf's unrest

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a Trilateral regional summit including Afghanistan and Tajikistan in Tehran on August 05, 2010.
04 Apr 2011
Tehran -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on regional rival Saudi Arabia to pull its troops out of Bahrain, where they are helping a Sunni monarchy put down a Shia-led protest movement demanding equal rights and a political...
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Algeria doctors, militias, students push on with demos

A man gestureS towards Algerian police surrounding demonstrators in Algiers, February 19, 2011. About 200 Algerian protesters braved riot police to rally in a central square in Algiers as security forces clamped down on the capital. Like in a previous protest a week ago, when 2,000 demonstrators confronted 30,000 riot police at the same venue, riot police armed with batons and shields, as well as armoured vehicles, took up positions throughout central Algiers ahead of the protest.
04 Apr 2011
Algiers -- Auxiliary police, specialist doctors and university students pushed on with strikes and demonstrations in Algeria on Monday to press demands including for improved pay and conditions. Several members of the security militia...
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Volunteers flock to Libya rebel army boot camp

Libyan rebels ride on an armoured personnel carrier as they approach the area where they are engaged in street battles with forces loyal to Moammer Gadhafi near Brega, April 3, 2011. Rebels beat a fresh retreat from the key oil town after a new bout of fierce fighting.
04 Apr 2011
Benghazi -- Ashraf Mohamed Salem has never fired a gun in his life. But the 27-year-old science student was one of several hundred eager volunteers who showed up at the Benghazi military barracks on Monday for a basic training course so he...
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Armed and ready, Ouattara forces await Ivory Coast end game

04 Apr 2011
Northern outskirts of Abidjan -- Armed and ready, hundreds of troops loyal to Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara are waiting to launch what they say will be the final assault on Abidjan. And waiting... "Today's the big day,...
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Lawyer: Prominent Syrian rights defender Atassi free

وقفة احتجاجية لمجموعة من السوريين المقيمين في القاهرة، أمام السفارة السورية بالقاهرة، 21 مارس 2011. طالب المتظاهرون خلال وقفتهم برحيل الرئيس السورى بشار الأسد، وتداول السلطة على نحو ديمقراطي، وإلغاء العمل بقانون الطوارئ الساري العمل به في البلاد، منذ أربعين عاماً، كما رددوا شعارات مناهضة للنظام السوري.
04 Apr 2011
Amman -- Syrian authorities have released prominent human rights defender Suhair al-Atassi, one of her lawyers said on Monday. Atassi, who was dragged by her hair and arrested in Marjeh Square in Damascus at a 16 March silent protest to...
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Battle rages in Libya as another Qadhafi man quits

A Libyan rebel looks at the ID found on a body of a dead fighter (not seen) loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in the strategic oil town of Brega, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, whose control was seized by rebels from Kadhafi's forces on April 02, 2011
04 Apr 2011
Near Brega, Libya -- The United States agreed to extend air strikes in Libya into Monday as the oil town of Brega saw heavy fighting, with rebel forces advancing only to fall back after an ambush by forces loyal to Muammer Qadhafi. The US...
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Israel lauds war crimes investigator's reversal

Destroyed Palestinian homes in Gaza after Israeli Operation Cast Lead
03 Apr 2011
Jerusalem -- Many modern armies have struggled with how to battle an enemy who uses human shields, perhaps none more so than Israel. So Israeli leaders were especially pleased Sunday after an admission by Richard Goldstone -- a Jewish UN...
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Taliban twin bombers kill 42 at Pakistani shrine

Pakistani rescue workers carrying a wounded person off a site where a bomb attack resulted in 10 being killed and at least 30 wounded, April 5, 2010. The attack had targeted a rally of ruling Awami National party in Timergarah, Lower Dir district, North West Province, Pakistan.
03 Apr 2011
Multan, Pakistan – A pair of Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan's most important Sufi Muslim shrines on Sunday, killing 42 people and wounding 100 who were celebrating the anniversary of its founder's death with...
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Ouattara rejects Ivory Coast massacre allegation

03 Apr 2011
Abidjan -- Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara has rejected UN charges that his forces were involved in a massacre of hundreds of civilians. The United Nations mission in Ivory Coast (ONUCI) said on Saturday that...
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Qadhafi forces shell town as rebels name 'crisis team'

Libyan rebels looks for an ID as they search a body of a dead fighter loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in the strategic oil town of Brega, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, whose control was seized by rebels from Kadhafi's forces on April 02, 2011.
03 Apr 2011
Tripoli -- Forces loyal to Muammar Qadhafi shelled the besieged western town of Misrata on Sunday where doctors say hundreds have been killed despite two weeks of Western airstrikes meant to put a stop to civilian deaths. The popular...
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