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MSNBC
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Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region.
In a 46-page question-and-answer doc..
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SF Gate
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Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
President Jose Ramos-Ho..
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CNN
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Seventy-two Ugandan soldiers were killed and another 40 injured, many seriously, when their huge truck crashed into a concrete barrier in the east of the country, a spokesman said Monday.
The death toll is one of the highest the Ugandan army has suffer..
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BBC News
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Tony Blair is heading to the Middle East for the first time as special envoy for the region, trying to build foundations for a Palestinian state.
The former prime minister will visit Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian town of Ramallah in the West Bank...
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BBC News
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The Sri Lankan army says that it is continuing military operations against Tamil Tigers rebels in the east...
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BBC News
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The leader of a group of rebels accused of trying to assassinate East Timor's president has surrendered.
Gastao Salsinha and 11 other rebels handed themselves in to Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres at the government palace in the capital, Dili...
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BBC News
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says his government will do all it can to safeguard democracy in East Timor after attacks on its president and PM.
On his second visit to East Timor in only two months, Mr Rudd said his support was "absolutely rock..
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BBC News
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East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta is in a critical condition and has been put into an induced coma, after being shot by rebel soldiers.
Mr Ramos-Horta was shot in a pre-dawn attack on his Dili home, and later airlifted to Australia for treatment...
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CNN
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Saber-rattling in the Middle East has been growing, with Israeli air strikes over Syria at the beginning of the month and France's Foreign Minister talking of war with Iran, but behind the scenes there are fear of a new arms race in the region. In a deal..
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BBC News
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Violence has broken out in several areas of East Timor, a day after independence hero Xanana Gusmao was named as the new prime minister.
Protesters threw rocks and set fire to buildings, and security forces used tear gas in response.
Mr Gusmao was c..
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BBC News
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The Quartet of Middle East mediators is considering naming Tony Blair for a top peacemaking post, diplomats say.
Mr Blair steps down on Wednesday as UK prime minister and officials from the EU, Russia, the UN and US are thought to have discussed a poss..
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Alter Net
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The hard right in the U.S. has tried to exploit the arrest of Middle East scholar Haleh Esfandiari to create a reason for America's conservatives to attack Iran.
The case of Haleh Esfandiari's imprisonment in Iran is sparking the kind of commotion that..
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BBC News
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Egypt at the start of a new effort to try to revive negotiations on Middle East peace.
It is her first visit to the region since the creation of a Palestinian unity government.
Ms Rice first hold..
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New Yorker
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In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House h..
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Reuters
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Bombs exploded near four Algerian police stations east of the capital Algiers early on Tuesday, killing four people in apparently coordinated attacks by suspected Islamist militants, residents said. "I was woken by huge blast. I thought it was an earth..
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Independent
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The Iraqi state that was formed in the aftermath of the First World War has come to an end. Its successor state is struggling to be born in an environment of crises and chaos. The collapse of the entire order in the Middle East now threatens as the Iraq i..
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breakingnews.iol.ie
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Pope Benedict XVI today urged a solution to conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa...
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Independent
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Oh how - when it comes to the realities of history - the Muslims of the Middle East exhaust my patience. After years of explaining to Arab friends that the Jewish Holocaust - the systematic, planned murder of six million Jews by the Nazis, is an indisputa..
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