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Syria government approves lifting 48-year... Syria's government passed a draft law on Tuesday to lift 48 years of emergency rule, a concession to unprecedented demands for greater freedom in the tightly-controlled Arab country.
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Operation headquarters: Izmir As NATO takes over command of the Libya operation, it has also been announced that the Izmir base will be used as operation headquarters.
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Taliban bin Laden revenge bombing kills 80 in... Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 80 people at a paramilitary force academy in the northwest on Friday, and vowed further bloodshed in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in the country.
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Tanks shell Syrian city Army tanks shelled a residential district in Homs on Wednesday, said a rights campaigner in Syria's third city which has emerged as the most populous center of defiance against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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Osama bin Laden killed in shootout Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Barack Obama announced, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
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Erdoğan pays a call to Obama Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan recently made a surprising telephone call to United States President Barack Obama to discuss the developments in Libya.
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Air strike flattens building in Gaddafi compound NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.
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"Restrepo” director Tim Hetherington killed in... Fighting in Libya's besieged rebel city of Misrata killed at least 10 civilians including an Oscar-nominated British filmmaker, and NATO urged non-combatants to avoid troops so it could step up air strikes.
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Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan... Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan's nuclear safety agency said on Saturday, two weeks after the nuclear power plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
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Pakistan Taliban says it attacked U.S. consulate... Pakistan's Taliban said on Friday it had attacked a U.S. consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest in a surge of violence since U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month.
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Jailed IMF chief under pressure to quit Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced growing pressure to quit as head of the IMF after his arrest on attempted rape charges, as some French politicians expressed outrage over his treatment by U.S. authorities.
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NATO issues ‘red’ alert With the death of Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, NATO has increased the alarm level for Turkey, England and Spain, all previous targets due to threat of possible revenge.
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IMF chief charged with sex assault IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged on Sunday with trying to rape a New York hotel maid in a scandal that appeared to wreck his hopes of becoming France's next president.
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Syrian tanks shell towns, at least 19 killed Syrian tanks shelled residential areas in two towns and at least 19 people were killed across the country, rights campaigners said, as President Bashar al-Assad's forces fought to crush a seven-week uprising.
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