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 Syrian peace plan being blown apart | The two suicide car bombs in Damascus on May 10 were an alarming development. Before last December, suicide bombs were unheard of in Syria. Now there have been 10 such attacks, becoming increasingly deadly &m...
 Ordeal of remembrance | To meet deadline, an obligation that political commentators, no less than news reporters, are enjoined by editors against toying with, I have to write this column today -- which just happens to be May 15, the...
 Obama and Hollande tackle eurozone crisis WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the G-8 economic summit will target both management of the European debt crisis and a "strong growth agenda." | Obama spoke in the Oval Office following his first ...
 George Osborne: Arab Spring states need financial aid Arab Spring countries need financial support to prevent extremism flourishing, George Osborne has said. | In a speech on Friday, Mr Osborne said the international community must not "choke off opportunity&...
 Why Bashar al-Assad needs terrorism | Syria has seen influx of foreign fighters, but regime has been spinning terror line since last March to help justify state violence GUERR (01) 2012-05-18 17:51:46,716 In Syria many ordinary people believe tha...
 UN and Libya announce joint initiative to improve food security | FAO Director-General Jose Graziano Da Silva (left) and Sulaiman Abdelhamed Boukharruba, Libya's Minister for Agriculture, sign agreement in Rome. Photo: FAO/Alessandra Benedetti18 May 2012 The United Nation...
 Letter from Istanbul | The conference I'm attending has been pretty interesting, although as much for the atmospherics and side conversations as for the formal presentations. Here with a few quick thoughts before I head off for the...
 Remember Gen. Dabi? | In December 2011, Sudanese Gen. Mohamed Ahmed al-Dabi led an Arab League mission into Syria to monitor abuses during the country's popular uprising. But the mission quickly failed, hobbled by government imped...
 Shocker! Obama was still 'Kenyan-born' in 2003 | As WND reported, Breitbart News originally found a brochure from two decades ago in which literary agency Acton & Dystel promoted Obama as the author of the never-produced “Journeys in Black and Whi...
 >French leader faces likely NATO ire on Afghanistan | WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist. | Freshly inaugurated, French President Hollande vi...
 >Clashes in western Libyan town leave 6 dead | BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Clashes in a western Libyan city left six dead and at least 20 injured on Wednesday, a government spokesman said. | Nasser al-Manei said unidentified assailants attacked an airport an...
 >Syrian leader says terrorists are behind unrest | BEIRUT (AP) — In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians as...
 >Syrian opposition faces fractures, infighting | BEIRUT (AP) — A key activist group threatened Thursday to withdraw from Syria's main opposition umbrella grouping, saying the council has drifted away from the spirit of the Syrian revolution. | A pullout b...
 >Pentagon sees Chinese military expanding its reach | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is telling Congress that China's increasingly sophisticated military is pursuing "new historic missions" that go beyond its traditional role of defending the homeland. | In a ...

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