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 The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that experts based at the State Department swapped al-Qaida ads on Yemeni websites bragging about killing Americans with ones showing the deadly impact of al-Qaida tact ... |
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 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to provide US$500,000 in humanitarian aid to Yemen to help the Arab country head off a worsening food crisis, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
A delegation of South Korean government officials will attend the second "Friends of Yemen" meeting in Riyadh on Wednesday and unveil the aid package, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae told reporters.
Yemen's ... |
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 Workers in Algiers started laying foundations Sunday for what should become the world’s third-largest mosque, a one-billion-euro project that will include a dizzyingly tall minaret.
The huge building in the capital Algiers will be built by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation and is expected to create 17,000 jobs – most of them for Algerians. Construction is due to be c ... |
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 Regime forces fired on protesters in Aleppo on Friday, wounding several people at the biggest rally seen in Syria’s second city since an uprising erupted last year. As many as 22 people have been killed by Syrian forces across the country, Al Arabiya reported citing activists at the Local Coordination Committees.
“This is the largest protest in Aleppo since the beginning of the revolut ... |
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 Death toll from the violent crackdown in Syria went up on Tuesday, a day after Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj voiced strong support for Syria’s opposition, saying his government had already established diplomatic contacts with Syrians fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
At least sixteen people have been killed by Syrian forces mostly in Damascus suburbs and Baniyas, Al ... |
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 European Union foreign ministers agreed fresh sanctions against Syria on Monday, the 15th round so far against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as 23 Syrian troops were killed in heavy clashes in the Syrian town of Rastan.
An EU statement issued shortly after ministers from the 27-nation bloc began talks in Brussels said they had adopted “sanctions against the Syrian regime” bu ... |
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 Jordan’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Tarawneh said on Sunday his government planned price rises soon for some essentials to prevent a spiralling budget deficit from passing $4 billion this year and further damaging the kingdom’s sluggish economy.
Tarawneh said the austerity moves expected before the end of the month would include rises in electricity and premium gasoline prices, but would ... |
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 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama was not surprised that al Qaeda bomb makers were still determined to attack civilians, he said in a television interview that aired on Thursday, days after reports of a foiled airplane suicide bomber plot in the Middle East.
Obama told ABC News in an interview taped on Wednesday that he was briefed on the would-be suicide mission in April, adding that offici ... |
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 The latest foiled terrorism plot in Yemen is a sign that terrorists "keep trying to devise more and more diverse and terrible ways to kill people," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said here Tuesday.
Wrapping up her eight-day trip to China, India and Bangladesh, Clinton also pressed Pakistan "to do more" to root out terrorists on its soil, including the alleged masterm ... |
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 François Hollande won the French presidential election on Sunday, capturing more than 51 percent of the vote to defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and become France's new president, according French television.
Sarkozy, who has held the French presidency since 2007, grabbed 48.1 percent, according to the polls.
Hollande, the 57-year-old socialist challenger, narrowly edged Sarkozy, also 57, i ... |
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