Iraq's al-Qaida claims 2 deadly attacks on Shiites
06.02.2012, 20:29:17
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the two deadliest attacks on Shiites since the U.S. military completed its withdrawal last month, underlining an escalating sectarian security and political crisis that threatens to drive the country toward civil war.... |
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US closes Syrian embassy as diplomacy collapses
06.02.2012, 18:27:29
BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.S. closed its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus Monday in a dramatic new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power as diplomatic efforts to resolve one of the deadliest conflicts of the Arab Spring collapsed.... |
French minister's remarks seen as Muslim putdown
06.02.2012, 20:12:27
PARIS (AP) -- France's interior minister has walked into a firestorm of controversy with his weekend comments that some civilizations - notably his own - are worth more than others.... |
Palestinians take step toward unity
06.02.2012, 19:53:16
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- After months of wavering, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took a decisive step Monday toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move Israel promptly warned would close the door to any future peace talks.... |
Prices rise, patience thins in sanctions-hit Iran
06.02.2012, 19:19:08
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A simple trip to the store in Iran these days offers a crash course in life under Western economic sanctions.... |
Greece caves in on civil service firings
06.02.2012, 19:15:30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's coalition government on Monday caved in to demands to cut civil service jobs, announcing 15,000 positions would go this year, amid mounting international pressure to agree on austerity measures needed to secure major new debt agreements.... |
Sports court strips Contador of 2010 Tour title
06.02.2012, 17:39:16
MADRID (AP) -- Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sports' highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping.... |
Norway mass killer demands medal at court hearing
06.02.2012, 18:04:30
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime massacre told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.... |
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