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<title>Israel and U.S. need to get facts straight before attacking Iran</title>
<description>Many of us doubt that Iran is on the way to building a nuclear bomb. </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:05:09 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/">(Op-ed) Jonathan Power (POWER&amp;rsquo;S WORLD)</source>
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<title>At Least 12 Dead, 2,500 Injured</title>
<description>Protesters in Egypt faced off with police in the capital, Cairo, and other cities for a third straight day Saturday in clashes that have left at least 12 people dead and 2,500 others wounded.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:15:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Khamenei warns &amp;#039;consequences of war 10 times more detrimental for US&amp;#039;</title>
<description>Iran&amp;#039;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that Iran will respond on its nuclear program, saying the consequences of war would be &amp;quot;10 times more detrimental&amp;quot; for the US.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:10:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Gilani to visit Qatar next week for Afghan peace talks</title>
<description>Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will explain his country&amp;#039;s stance on the issue of peace talks with the Afghan Taliban during hid visit to Qatar next week to meet the Gulf state&amp;#039;s leaders, a </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:50:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Khamenei warns Iran will back &amp;#039;any nations, any groups&amp;#039; fighting Israel</title>
<description>Iran&amp;#039;s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that his country will back any group or nation targeting Israel.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:30:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Hundreds massacred in Syria</title>
<description>In the worst violence of the near year-long crackdown by government forces, Syrian security forces have launched a massive attack on the people of Homs.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:09:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Syria veto a &amp;rsquo;shockingly callous betrayal&amp;rsquo;</title>
<description>Russia and China&amp;rsquo;s veto on Saturday of a UN resolution on the bloodshed in Syria is a &amp;rsquo;shockingly callous betrayal&amp;rsquo; of the Syrian people, Amnesty International said.  Moscow and  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>After U.N. vote fails, now what</title>
<description>The offensive appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday. The U.N. says more than 5,400 people have been killed over almost 11 months in a  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Protesters storm Syria&amp;rsquo;s embassies in Europe, Middle East, Australia</title>
<description>Demonstrators have stormed Syrian embassies in Europe, the Middle East and Australia after Syrian forces reportedly killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs.  British police used batons to  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Lebanon army is acting on orders from Syria</title>
<description>March 14 MP Mouin Merhabi said on Saturday that the Lebanese army &amp;quot;was deployed today along the Lebanese-Syrian border on orders from Damascus to President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Protests grip Cairo as pressure mounts for early vote</title>
<description>CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:14:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>2 foreign activists hit by IDF tear-gas projectile</title>
<description>Two activists, a French woman and a Dutch man, were lightly injured on Friday when they were hit by tear-gas projectiles during a weekly demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih,  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:04:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Syria denies shelling restive Homs province as UN Security Council meets on Syria&amp;#039;s unrest</title>
<description>Syria on Saturday dismissed as &amp;quot; media escalation&amp;quot; the report circulated a day earlier that the Syrian army heavily bombarded the central province of Homs, as the United Nations Security  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:32 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.globaltimes.cn/">Global Times</source>
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<title>New blast hits Egypt&amp;#039;s gas pipeline to Israel</title>
<description>CAIRO, Egypt: Saboteurs on Sunday blew up a pipeline that supplies gas to Israel, the 12th such attack in a year, security officials said.Masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline in the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Europe coughing up cash for US military gamble in Iran - analyst</title>
<description>Any economic losses from the EU&amp;#039;s oil embargo on Iran are outweighed by the benefits of the new sense of European unity ushered in by the sanctions. That&amp;#039;s the view of MEP Martin Callanan  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:48:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>UN council to vote on Syria amid new assault</title>
<description>Foreign Secretary William Hague joined international condemnation of their stance amid protests at Syrian embassies around the world that led  to six arrests in London.  Anger was fuelled by a  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:45:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bay Area women call Egypt captors &amp;#039;kind&amp;#039;</title>
<description>American tourists Norma Supe, left, and Patti Gamal, right, are seen after their release by gunmen in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, late Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Bedouin tribesmen abducted two female  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:33:18 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.insidebayarea.com/">Oakland Tribune</source>
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<title>After Syria&amp;#039;s deadliest day, U.N. fails to stop Assad</title>
<description>In an emergency session, the U.N. Security Council failed to approve a resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, following the deadliest one-day crackdown in  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:28:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Israel PM Ready to Go to Ramallah for Negotiations</title>
<description>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed Monday he is ready to go to Ramallah to meet President Abbas and open negotiations, in response to questions posed by Ma&amp;#039;an in an online  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:22 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://palestinechronicle.com/">Palestine Chronicle</source>
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<title>Jordan&amp;#039;s King Receives Hamas Leader</title>
<description>Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is in Jordan on his first official visit since he was forced to leave in 1999 for what authorities called &amp;quot;illicit and harmful&amp;quot; activities. The trip on Sunday  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:16 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://palestinechronicle.com/">Palestine Chronicle</source>
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<title>Palestinian Parliament Speaker Jailed</title>
<description>An Israeli military court has sentenced the speaker of the Palestinian parliament to jail for the next six months without trial in the latest of Tel Aviv&amp;#039;s detentions of Hamas&amp;#039;  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:12 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://palestinechronicle.com/">Palestine Chronicle</source>
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<title>Israel Plans to Launch Cyber Maneuver</title>
<description>The Israeli government plans to launch its first cyber emergency drill to fortify its vital infrastructure systems against multisource cyber attacks, reports say. The maneuver, dubbed &amp;quot;Lights  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:09 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://palestinechronicle.com/">Palestine Chronicle</source>
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<title>Brotherhood would cancel Camp David Agreement, says Hezbollah official</title>
<description>Brotherhood would cancel Camp David Agreement, says Hezbollah official  Haitham Dabbour Egypt Independent Mon, 30/01/2012 - 20:11  http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/629041   ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:59:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation committee agrees work plan</title>
<description>Reconciliation committee agrees work plan  Published 30 January 2012 18:15  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=456636  GAZA CITY (Ma&amp;#039;an) -- A committee tasked with implementing the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Iran Unveils Laser-Guided Smart Munitions</title>
<description>Iran Unveils Laser-Guided Smart Munitions  News number: 9010173037 17:18 | 2012-01-30  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010173037  TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Defense Ministry unveiled the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Canceling industrial zone agreement with Israel would harm Egypt</title>
<description>Minister: Canceling industrial zone agreement would harm Egypt  MENA Mon, 30/01/2012 - 12:59  http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/627836  Canceling an agreement that allows companies to export  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Fatah Central Committee Expels Member of Revolutionary Council Mashharawi for criticizing movement and Abbas</title>
<description>Fatah Central Committee Expels Member of Revolutionary Council Mashharawi  Date : 30/1/2012 Time : 20:45  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&amp;amp;id=18863   ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:59:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The rise of Qatar and the fall of Gaddafi</title>
<description>The overthrow of Gaddafi led to a radical change of the situation in Africa. Considering that in February of 2011 another foe of Qatari Mubarak fell, nearly no former rivals of Qatar are left in the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:57:24 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://english.pravda.ru/">Pravda</source>
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<title>Lawrie edges clear in Qatar</title>
<description>Scotland&amp;#039;s Paul Lawrie will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Qatar Masters in Doha.Lawrie shone on Saturday at the Doha Golf Club, firing a five-under 67 that featured six  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:20:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Israel to import Valentine roses for first time</title>
<description>Decimated by African competition, local farmers can&amp;#039;t meet demand     For the first time ever, Israel will need to import flowers for Valentine&amp;#039;s Day as a result of the drastic drop in  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:10:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Malev halts operations after Israel holds plane over debt</title>
<description>Second European state-owned airline goes bust in a week     Hungarian airline Malev ceased operating early on Friday after two of its planes were held at foreign airports due to unpaid  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:10:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Russia, China use double veto to block UN draft on Syria</title>
<description>Russia and China on Saturday joined hands in vetoing an Arab-European draft resolution which backs an Arab League plan to promote a regime change in Syria.  It was the second time since October 2011  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:09:31 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.globaltimes.cn/">Global Times</source>
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<title>Iran flexes muscles, begins military exercises</title>
<description>Persian Gulf have been in the works for weeks. State media said that ground forces began maneuvers in southern Iran, but it was not immediately clear whether it was part of the planned naval  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:57:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The opposition in Syria needs our help, and now</title>
<description>Here is the brutal truth about Syria: no one knows what to do. Six months after Barack Obama said bluntly that Bashar al-Assad should go, and with the Arab League calling for him to resign, there is  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:12 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://rss.feedsportal.com/">The Independent</source>
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<title>Was football riot orchestrated to inflame Egypt</title>
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<title>Egypt&amp;#039;s military rulers face calls for earlier vote</title>
<description>CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt&amp;#039;s military faced pressure on Saturday to speed up its transfer of power to civilians, as top public figures demanded a faster transition and street protests against army  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:44:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Backlash as Iran hardliners label Oscar favourite a &amp;#039;dirty picture&amp;#039;</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:41:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Russia&amp;#039;s veto on Syria sidelines UN as diplomatic options run out</title>
<description>Syria leaves the international community bitterly divided and all but helpless in the face of escalating violence before the vote.Last-minute negotiations in New York failed to bridge the gap  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:40:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<description>The Syrian city of Homs was left reeling on Saturday from harrowing accounts of a massacre that has left hundreds of people dead. Residents of the besieged city said that at least 300 people had  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:40:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Hundreds of protesters killed in Syria</title>
<description>Activists are describing it as the single deadliest day in the 11-month Syrian uprising as hundreds are killed during a barrage of mortar fire in the city of Homs. NBC&amp;#039;s Ayman Mohyeldin  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:19:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Syria/Lebanon re Free Syria Army, Tunisia breaking relations with Syria over crackdown February 04, 2012</title>
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<title>12 held after day of Syria protests</title>
<description>Angry scenes in central London were mirrored in cities across Europe and the Middle East - including Libya and Tunisia where Arab Spring uprisings have already succeeded in removing regimes. Tunisia  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:34:07 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/">IC Wales</source>
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<title>Canada disappointed in Syria resolutions demise, Baird says</title>
<description>Canada&amp;#039;s Foreign Minister John Baird speaks at the annual &amp;#039;Herzliya Conference&amp;#039; in the central Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv January 30,  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:32:08 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/">Globe and Mail</source>
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<title>UN move on Syria fails as violence rages</title>
<description>The US warns that Russia and China&amp;#039;s veto of a UN resolution on Syria will lead to the greater likelihood of civil war in the middle eastern  ... </description>
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<title>U.S. and Israel Set Stage for False Flag and Iran Attack</title>
<description>Prison Planet.com  February 4, 2012  Events over the last several days reveal that the United States and Israel plan to conduct a false flag terror event to be blamed on Iran. The event will likely  ... </description>
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<title>Homs shelling kills hundreds as violence rages</title>
<description>Hundreds of people were killed this weekend by shelling in the Syrian flashpoint city of Homs, in the bloodiest episode yet in the nearly year-old revolt against President Bashar Assad.As news of  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:22:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>RF, China&amp;rsquo;s position on Syria causes irritation, criticism of West</title>
<description>UN, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Irritation close to hysteria was a response from some members of the UN Security Council to firm and principle position of Russia and China, which blocked the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:22:37 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.itar-tass.com/">Itar Tass</source>
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<title>Western sanctions narrowing India&amp;rsquo;s options for Iran oil</title>
<description>MUNICH: India will have to walk a fine line between continuing to source oil imports from Iran and escalating pressure from the US and Europe to adhere to tighter sanctions against the Islamic  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:09:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Clinton concedes to Russian adamance on Syria</title>
<description>A major diplomatic battle over the fate of Syria has begun at the United Nations, with Russia and China the only permanent Security Council members challenging the UN&amp;#039;s right to  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:08:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>European, Arab partners plan Syria crisis group following U.N. resolution veto</title>
<description>PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday France was consulting with Arab and European countries to create a contact group on Syria to find a solution to its crisis after  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:03:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>BBC team smuggled into Homs</title>
<description>Syrian government forces have bombarded the city of Homs with artillery shells and mortars, killing at least 55 people, according to opposition groups.  But the government has denied the claims and  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:46:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Egypt - Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad freed after being held for 10 months</title>
<description>&amp;#039;s release late yesterday under an amnesty announced on 21 January for around 2,000 civilians who had been convicted by military courts during the past year. Sanad, who had been detained for 10  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:44:40 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://en.rsf.org/">Reporters without Borders</source>
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<title>The Brutal, Shadowy War for Hearts and Minds</title>
<description>On a cool winter day in the city of Dara&amp;#039;a, a young man walking by me on a busy commercial street grazed me gently. In any large city outside Syria, it would have gone unnoticed. But as I made  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:36:36 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.time.com/">Time</source>
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<description>MUNICH &amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday a crackdown by Egypt&amp;#039;s military rulers on U.S. and local pro-democracy groups could jeopardize aid for the Arab  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:31:22 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">MSNBC</source>
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<title>Clashes in south Yemen kill 6 al-Qaida militants</title>
<description>Protestors react after receiving the news of the departure of Yemen&amp;#039;s President Ali Abdullah Saleh from Sanaa to Oman in Sanaa, Yemen, Jan. 22, 2012. A spokesman for Yemen&amp;#039;s embattled  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:31:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Tour agencies could be forced to close</title>
<description>TUNIS - Dozens of tour agencies in Tunisia will have to wind up soon if the government does not provide immediate aid, the head of the Tunisian Federation of Travel and Tour Agencies (FTAV) warned  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:30:45 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.middle-east-online.com/">Middle East Online</source>
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<title>Hold Yemen Officials Who Sanctioned Civilian Attacks Accountable</title>
<description>During an artillery barrage last Nov. 11, Yemeni security forces killed 13 civilians in the city of Taizz. One of them was a patient at al-Rawdha Hospital, which mortar rounds and tank fire struck  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Vatican says 2012 papal visit to Lebanon &amp;#039;very possible&amp;#039;</title>
<description>A visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Lebanon later this year is &amp;quot;very possible,&amp;quot; according to the Vatican&amp;#039;s official spokesman.The Pope would use the visit to deliver a document - known as  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:27:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Iran Starts Mass-Production of Naval Cruise Missile</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:18:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Egyptian Party Stresses Necessity for Revising Camp David Accord</title>
<description>Egyptian Party Stresses Necessity for Revising Camp David Accord  News number: 9010173585 17:42 | 2012-02-04  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010173585  TEHRAN (FNA)- A leading Egyptian  ... </description>
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<title>Sabotage Groups Attack Syrian Embassy in Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Athens and London</title>
<description>Sabotage Groups Attack Syria&amp;#039;s Embassies in Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Athens and  London  Feb 04, 2012  http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2012/02/04/398349.htm  CAPITALS, (SANA - Syrian news  ... </description>
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<title>Iranian Navy Ships Arrive in Saudi Port</title>
<description>Iranian Navy Ships Arrive in Saudi Port  News number: 9010173587 17:49 | 2012-02-04  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010173587  TEHRAN (FNA)- The 18th flotilla of warships dispatched by  ... </description>
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<title>PM Netanyahus Remarks at his Meeting with IDF Reservists</title>
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<title>Time is urgently running out</title>
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<title>five months hiking Israels National Trail</title>
<description>Israel Pathways - The Israel Trail  http://www.masaisrael.org/Masa/English/The+Israel+Trail.htm  Program Overview  Spend five months hiking  ... </description>
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<title>PM Netanyahu, for the First Time, Answers Questions on Facebook from Web Surfers from the Arab World</title>
<description>PM Netanyahu, for the First Time, Answers Questions on Facebook from Web  Surfers from the Arab World  (Communicated by the Prime Minister&amp;#039;s Media Adviser)  Hundreds of web surfers from Egypt,  ... </description>
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<title>4 NATO soldiers killed by Afghan soldier</title>
<description>KABUL, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has confirmed that four service members were killed Friday by an Afghan soldier in eastern  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Syria killings persist as Arab monitors&amp;#039; mandate expires</title>
<description>BEIRUT - Syrian forces have retreated from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said, but deadly violence raged on elsewhere as a month-long mandate for Arab League peace monitors in  ... </description>
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<description>DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday granted general amnesty for all prisoners who were detained over involvement in the 10-month-old unrest, state-run SANA news  ... </description>
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<description>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced deep regret after Security Council members were today unable to agree on a resolution backing an Arab League plan to resolve the crisis in Syria, where thousands  ... </description>
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<description>MUNICH -;  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday issued a new warning to Egypt that the failure to resolve a bitter dispute over the status of non-governmental pro-democracy  ... </description>
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