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Three killed as army enters central Syrian town At least three civilians were killed on Monday when security forces entered the town of Talbiseh in central Syria to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad, a rights group said.
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Armenian ‘denial’ draft dropped prior to voting A bill which would criminalize the denial of allegations of a supposed 1915 'genocide' against Armenians was dropped by the French senate before it was taken to a vote.
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Assad speech offers little to protesters Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's promise on Monday to prepare a range of political reforms offers no prospect of appeasing the three-month-old uprising against his autocratic rule.
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Clinton urges Africa to drop Gaddafi Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged African leaders on Monday to abandon Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and embrace democratic reforms, before cutting short her Africa trip as a volcanic ash cloud closed in.
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Dozens killed in Syria violence At least 35 civilians and 10 soldiers and police have been killed since Saturday in a military operation in and around a northwestern Syrian town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
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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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U.S. concerned at Syria border moves The United States is concerned by reports that Syria is massing troops near the border with Turkey, which could escalate the crisis in the region, and is discussing the issue with Turkish officials, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
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Syria asks Turkey to review response to Assad... Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem asked Turkey on Wednesday to reconsider its response to President Bashar al-Assad's speech on Monday, which Turkish President Abdullah Gül said was not enough.
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Syrian troops deploy on road to Turkish border Syrian troops have deployed on a main road leading from the commercial hub of Aleppo to Turkey as protests expand to border regions, residents said, while Ankara grows increasingly critical of President Bashar al-Assad's military crackdown.
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US Senate confirms Panetta as Pentagon chief The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to confirm outgoing Central Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta as the new secretary of defense, replacing the retiring Robert Gates.
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Arizona wildfire burns horses as well as pasture... When fire ripped through the mountain pasture in southern Arizona, old roping horse Charlie panicked and charged straight into a sheet of flame.
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