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• Turkish security forces ‘foil plot’ to kidnap head of the Free Syrian Army
  Turkish media say the country’s security forces have foiled a plot to kidnap the head of the opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA), Riad al-Asaad. The authorities had arrested two Turks and a Syrian who had collaborated to...
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• Mali's junta leader to get status of former head of state
  The leader of the junta in Mali will get the status of a former head of state as part of a transition deal to new elections. Captain Amadou Sanogo will get all the privileges of a former head of state, Djibrill...
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• France launches new Strauss-Kahn rape probe
  A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The prosecutor's office in Lille said in a statement that they are looking into the...
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• Militant group claims Syria suicide bombing
  Militant group Al-Nusra Front has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Syria last week that killed nine people. In a statement posted on the internet on Monday, Al-Nusra Front said it was behind the...
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• Iran starts court proceedings against Reuters over female ninjas report
  Iranian authorities have formally started court proceedings against Reuters. Earlier the agency’s Tehran bureau was suspended over a report about female ninjas. The final decision on Reuters resuming its activities in...
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• Yemeni militants open fire on three US Coast Guard trainers
  Militants have opened fire on three US Coast Guard trainers in western Yemen, wounding one, Yemeni security officials have said. The shooting took place on Sunday in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida in western Yemen,...
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• Syrian forces kill 9 deserters – reports
  Syrian forces reportedly ambushed and killed nine army deserters near a north Damascus suburb, activists said on Monday. The deserters were killed as they were retreating from the village of Jisr al-Ab near Damascus's...
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• Suicide bomber targets Yemeni soldiers at military parade rehearsal
  A suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 10 soldiers, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, media reports say. The soldiers were practicing for a military parade. It is scheduled for Tuesday to mark Yemen's...
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• Palestinians detain 10 Islamic Jihad members
  Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday. The reason of their arrest is unknown, Ghassan Sa'adi, head of the Islamic Jihad in the camp in the occupied...
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• Chinese fishermen held in N. Korea return home
  Chinese fishermen reportedly kidnapped by armed North Koreans earlier this month have returned home. All 29 people were freed at the weekend, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. The fishermen were detained by a group of...
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• UN nuclear watchdog head arrives in Tehran for talks
  The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, arrived in Tehran early Monday morning. His mission could lead to the resumption of probes on Iran’s nuclear program. Amano and his two aides...
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• One dead, five injured in Mississippi prison riot
  A guard at a prison in Mississippi died and five more were injured during what the facility’s private operator called “an inmate disturbance”. A spokesperson for the local Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the guard died...
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• Six wounded in clashes in Lebanese capital
  ­Six people have been wounded in a gun battle between pro- and anti-Syrian militants in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the country’s state-run National News Agency reports. Gunmen reportedly used machine guns and...
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• Moscow police disperse opposition camp
  Police in Moscow have dispersed an opposition camp in central Moscow, arresting between 20 and 40 people, Twitter users report. Earlier, around 300 people were reported to have gathered on Kudrinskaya Square....
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• Bee Gees founder Robin Gibbs dies
  Robin Gibb, the founder of the seminal disco band, the Bee Gees, has died at the age of 62, his family reported. Last year Gibb was diagnosed with colorectal cancer after a tumor was discovered as he underwent surgery...
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