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Associated Press A Syrian anti-aircraft gun is positioned in a wheat field close to a radar position in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa valley in July 2009. Any international military action against Syria's regime over its reported use of chemical weapons would run up against one of the Middle East's most formidable air defenses.
Air defenses pose challenge
BEIRUT — International military action against Syria’s government over its alleged use of chemical weapons would run up against one of the Middle East’s most formidable air defenses, a system bolst...
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Associated Press Members of the Yemeni al-Houthi Shiite rebel group burn an effigy of a U.S. aircraft during a demonstration April 12 against U.S. and Saudi involvement in Yemen. A public backlash is starting to grow over civilians killed by American drones as the U.S. dramatically steps up its strikes against al-Qaida's branch the past year. Relatives of those killed say the missile blasts hitting their towns only turn Yemenis against the U.S. campaign to crush militants.
US drone strikes rise in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen — The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group’s fighters and their hard-line ideology. The talk worried re...
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Bangladesh begins burial of unidentified victims
JURAIN, Bangladesh — Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified were buried in a mass funeral, a week after the eight-story building they wo...
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260,000 died in famine
NAIROBI, Kenya — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death t...
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Syrian rebels, troops clash at three air bases
BEIRUT — Syrian rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad fought intense battles with his troops on Sunday to try to seize control of three military air bases in the country’s north and curta...
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Associated Press Aides give Italian President Giorgio Napolitano the news about a shooting outside Chigi Palace during the swearing in ceremony of new Premier Enrico Letta and his cabinet at the Quirinale Presidential palace Sunday in Rome. Two Italian paramilitary policemen were shot and wounded.
Man shoots 2 at government swearing-in
ROME — In the very moments Italy’s new coalition government was being sworn in, ending months of political paralysis in a country hoping to revive a bleak economy, a middle-aged unemployed bricklay...
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Mini-stroke could limit Algeria president ambition
ALGIERS, Algeria — The mini-stroke suffered by Algeria’s president has cast fresh doubt on his perceived ambition to run for a fourth term next year as leader of one of Africa’s largest and richest...
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Chemicals alleged in fray
BEIRUT — The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein’s 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that...
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Iraq pulls plug on Al-Jazeera license
BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of escalating sectarian tension. The move si...
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Egypt searches for budget aid
CAIRO — During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt’s president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for a sizable loan, according to a Putin ai...
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