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Bashir pardons four convicted spies
Date: 2013-08-31 15:08:32 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:266831
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir issued a decision to pardon four persons convicted of spying for foreign countries, including a diplomat and a director of a private center. The four were arrested in March 2012 and were convicted by a court on ....
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Palestinian killed by Israeli forces
Date: 2013-08-31 13:23:18 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:266640
A Palestinian, named Karim Sobhi Abu Sobeeh, 17, was killed by Israeli forces, according to a medical source in Nablus city. Abu Sobeeh succumbed to injuries he had sustained when the Israeli forces stormed Jenin refugees' camp on August 20. He ....
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NATO will not take part in a Syria strike
Date: 2013-08-31 11:13:29 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:266367
The suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria demands an international response but NATO will not take part, alliance head Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. "I see no NATO role in an international reaction to the (Syrian) regime," Rasmussen told ....
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Syria accuses US of fabricating evidence to justify military attack
Date: 2013-08-31 10:13:09 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:266274
Syria has accused the US of fabricating evidence to justify a military attack against it, the BBC reported on Saturday. Syria, meanwhile, refused a report by the US intelligence concluding that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an ....
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UN experts leave Syria for Lebanon at end of chemical weapons probe
Date: 2013-08-31 09:05:19 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:266166
UN weapons inspectors left Damascus on Saturday, marking the end of their probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, Al-Arabiya news channel said. It may be two weeks before for final results are ready of an analysis of ....
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Kuwaiti minister says all options on table after Western strike against Syria
Date: 2013-08-31 09:01:17 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:266162
Kuwaiti Minister of Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman al-Sabah said the government has an integrated plan to defend Kuwait in case Syria comes under a Western strike. All options are on the table, Sheikh Salman told Kuwait's "As Siyasa" newspaper, out ....
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Kerry: Any US action against Syria not like Iraq, Afghanistan conflicts
Date: 2013-08-30 20:59:48 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:36 - ID:265925
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that any response against an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria would not involve the US in a protracted conflict like Iraq or Afghanistan. He said the Syrian government forces killed ....
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Syria says US attack to fall into hands of militias
Date: 2013-08-30 13:51:55 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:265325
A Syrian military source said any US attack on his country will pave the way for armed groups and militias to advance into the capital Damascus. Iran's Fars news agency quoted the source as warning of a possible regional war in fallout from a ....
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Russia opposed to any UN resolution allowing Syria strikes
Date: 2013-08-30 13:47:23 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:265319
A top Russian official has reiterated Moscow’s opposition to any United Nations Security (UNSC) resolution that would allow a military action against Syria. “Russia opposes any resolution of the UN Security Council indicating the ....
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Peacekeeping mission denies decision to pull civilian employees out of Lebanon
Date: 2013-08-30 10:47:43 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:265064
The spokesperson of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon denied on Friday that the peacekeeping command had decided to evacuate civilian employees and their families. “There is no decision to pull out civilian employees or their ....
