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 Last year's Arab Spring is turning into this year's Islamic springEgypt’s banning of two Muslim Brotherhood candidates from upcoming election highlights new concerns about Islam’s growing political power across the region
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 Iran under cyberattack, unplugs oil facilities from Internet: reportLatest example of computer malware attacks on theocratic nation, according to semi-official news agency
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 Tweets land Kuwaiti seven years in prisonSunni Muslim guilty of insulting the Gulf state’s Shi’ite Muslim minority
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 Kenya rangers kill nine suspected elephant poachersKenya Wildlife Service blames China’s growing footprint in Africa for a recent surge in elephant deaths
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 Afghan massacre suspect a 'family man' disappointed at his latest dispatchRobert Bales was the father who joined his two young children for playtime in the yard, a career soldier who greeted neighbours warmly but was guarded when talking about the years he spent away at war
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 Twin explosions rock Syria's capitalThere was no immediate word on casualties in the Saturday morning blasts
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 In Sahel, knowledge becomes a weapon to fight droughtLearning the lessons of Somalia, aid workers are intervening early, before the little-noticed humanitarian emergency in West Africa becomes a catastrophe
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 In pictures: The AssadsWhen Bashar al-Assad took over as President of Syria, he had a glamorous British-born bride and medical training in the U.K., and the popular belief was that he would take a more liberal approach than his father. But his brutal crackdown on the Syrian uprising in the past year has shown that can be just as ruthless as his father. Here are some images from the lives of Bashar and Asma al-Assad
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 Syria today and Russia in 1917: two teetering dictatorshipsNot long ago, London-born Asma al-Assad was gushingly profiled in Vogue. Today, she's the female face of one of the world's most reviled regimes.Elizabeth Renzetti looks at the Syrian first lady and her husband and recalls another ill-starred couple - the last rulers of the Russian Empire
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 Afghan lawmaker blasts France's early troop withdrawalTahira Mujadedi, a member of parliament from Kapisa province, says her country’s forces are unprepared to handle the job
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 U.S. defence secretary reveals key intelligence source for bin Laden raidLeon Panetta told CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for the raid
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 Death toll in Syria exceeds 5,000, including 300 childrenBusinesses closed as general strike pressures al-Assad to end bloodshed
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 Third day of clashes in EgyptProtesters, troops continue to skirmish near parliament in Cairo
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 Israeli Prime Minister vows to stop settler assaults on armyExtremist leader calls on soldiers to sabotage equipment and prevent evacuations of settlements
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 Twin suicide bombings kill 44 in DamascusExplosions outside Syrian intelligence agencies starkly different from previous attacks against regime; state-run TV suggests al-Qaeda to blame
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 In Swaziland, a King tries the patience of his peopleAccustomed to unquestioning obedience, Mswati III faces unprecedented protests as his subjects reject the excesses of his autocratic rule
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 Asian lust for ivory makes 2011 ‘horrible year’ for elephantsAs many as 3,000 of the animals are believed to have been killed as Asian crime syndicates move to dominate the illegal ivory trade
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 Video: Zimbabweans see red over Gay rights' groups pink giftA storm of controversy has been whipped up recently by a gift of bright pink trashcans that were donated to the Bulawayo council by a gay and lesbian pressure group. President Robert Mugabe is a fierce critic of homosexuality, and some say the council should have refused the offer.
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 Al-Qaeda leader shot dead in AlgeriaSi Mohammed Ouramdhane responsible for numerous attacks, say police
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 Arab League approves sanctions on SyriaDamascus shames the move as a betrayal of Arab solidarity
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 The Arab League awakeningWith its stand on Syria, we may be witnessing the first tangible impact of the Arab uprisings
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Is Ahmadinejad Iran’s last president? With the present incumbent seen as a threat to the power of the clergy, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader suggests scrapping a directly elected presidency
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 Two-week-old baby pulled alive from the rubble after Turkey quakeRescuers are still struggling to pull out people trapped inside fallen concrete more than 72 hours after the earthquake struck
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 Before dawn in the desert, Gadhafi is laid in an unmarked graveWith a brief funeral, Libya’s new leaders hope to turn the page on the Gadhafi era. But with questions about his death and son Seif al-Islam still at large, that may prove a forlorn wish
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 Turkey earthquake toll nears 300Hundreds more feared dead as rescuers claw through rubble to free people trapped
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