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| Death rains down on Homs |
| February 23, 2012 02:00 AM |
| Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs Wednesday. |
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| February 23, 2012 01:26 AM |
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Two Jordanian opposition groups called for constitutional reform in their country during a visit to Washington, denouncing what they said were corrupt practices under King Abdullah II.
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| February 23, 2012 01:27 AM |
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Wrapping her face in a green and white Syrian “Independence” flag scarf – knitted by her mother – a woman describes her resolve to return to her native Homs in Syria to help tend to the wounded.
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| By Amy Teibel | February 23, 2012 01:27 AM |
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Syria’s embattled leader, Bashar Assad, appears to be losing one of his last bastions of reliable support: the Druze Arab community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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FSA soldier in Lebanon discloses tactics
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| Nicholas Blanford | February 23, 2012 01:51 AM |
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In a small cold house a few hundred meters south of the border with Syria, Khaled, a young fighter with the Free Syrian Army, patiently sits, cellphone in hand, waiting for a call.
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‘Third man’ may be kingmaker in French polls
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| Alexandria Sage | February 23, 2012 01:16 AM |
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Francois Bayrou stands no more chance than before in his third try for the French presidency, but this time the center-candidate may win a bigger role as kingmaker.
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Homs divided and drained of residents
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| By Lauren Williams | February 23, 2012 01:27 AM |
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Sami groans in pain as he shifts his weight under a bundle of blankets on a stretcher bed in a makeshift hospital in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
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Turkey to overcome secular qualms with Islamic bond
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| By Seda Sezer, Nevzat Devranoglu | February 22, 2012 09:49 PM |
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Turkey's government plans its first-ever issue of Islamic bonds this year, overcoming sensitivities about Islamic finance in the secular republic.
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Ruling could spark coalition crisis in Israel
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| By Amy Teibel | February 22, 2012 09:22 PM |
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced the unwelcome possibility of a coalition crisis on Wednesday after Israel's Supreme Court, in a landmark decision.
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Sudan closes third newspaper this year
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| By Khalid Abdelaziz | February 22, 2012 08:16 PM |
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Sudanese security services have suspended the independent al-Tayar newspaper, an editor said, 2 days after agents confiscated an entire edition in a crackdown against the media.
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SKeyes condemns killing of Western journalists in Syria
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| February 22, 2012 05:21 PM |
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The Samir Kassir eyes center denounced the killing of Western reporters Marie Colvin of the U.S. and French photographer Remi Ochlik in the Syrian city of Homs Wednesday and called for swift action to end the bloodshed.
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Hamas irons out dispute over Palestinian unity
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| February 22, 2012 04:28 PM |
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A senior Hamas official says the leadership of the Islamic militant group has settled internal disagreements and approved a unity deal with its political rival, Palestinian President Abbas.
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