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11 dead as Libyans rebel against Benghazi militias

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Libyan authorities retook control on Saturday of the headquarters and bases of militias in Benghazi after armed protesters attacked them overnight in violence that killed at least 11 people and wounde

Syria army kills 23 civilians as massacre outcry grows

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The Syrian army killed at least 23 civilians in two protest cities on Saturday, a watchdog said, as an international outcry mounted over a massacre in a central village.

UN observers who visited the

UN leads calls for urgent world action on Syria

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The United Nations led calls on Saturday for urgent international action on Syria after reports of a horrific massacre by regime forces that left 92 people dead, more than a third of them children.

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No need for war to 'destroy' Israel: Ahmadinejad

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that war was not essential to achieve the destruction' of Israel, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported.

"The destruction of the Zionist regime does no

Twin blasts kill 15 in Russia's Caucasus region

Two blasts near a police post late on Thursday killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20 in Dagestan, part of Russia's restive Caucasus region, the interior ministry said.

"At least 15 peopl

Israeli nukes greatest threat to peace: Iran

A senior Iranian official has said that Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons pose the greatest threat to Mideast peace and accused the United States and other nuclear powers of hypocritically ignoring

Drone strikes are legal and ethical: US

The White House has categorically dismissed Pakistan's concerns on the drone strikes, as a top Obama aid describing it as a both 'legal' and 'ethical' tool to get dreaded terrorists.

"As a matter of

US pastor burns Koran again

Controversial US pastor Terry Jones has burned more copies of the Koran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed to protest the imprisonment in Iran of a Christian clergyman, The Gainesville Sun report

Annan calls Syria situation 'bleak'

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International envoy Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the situation in Syria is 'bleak' and expressed alarm at reports that government troops are still carrying out military oper

Bahrain prince insists F1 is on, as protest grows

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Thousands of people protested in a Shiite suburb of Bahrain's capital on Formula One practice day as the Gulf kingdom's crown prince insisted Sunday's race would go ahead to avoid "empowering extremis

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