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Obama envoy: Two-state solution is only solution
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4.17.2009 : 4:02 pm
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A Palestinian state alongside Israel is the only way to end the Mideast conflict, President Barack Obama's Mideast point man said Friday, sending a stern message to Israel's hardline leaders, who have expressed misgivings about a two-state solution.
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Activists paint graffiti letter on West Bank wall
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4.17.2009 : 3:35 pm
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RAM, West Bank -- Palestinian activists climbed wooden ladders leaning against Israeli's West Bank separation barrier Friday and carefully spraypainted in English "My dear Palestinian brothers" -- the first words of what they say will turn into a letter stretching over 1.6 miles long.
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At least 4 die as mortar rounds hit Baghdad suburb
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4.17.2009 : 1:13 pm
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BAGHDAD -- Mortar rounds hit a Shiite enclave south of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least four people in the latest sign of violence returning to areas that U.S. and Iraqi forces have considered largely stable.
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Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
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4.17.2009 : 10:40 am
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JERUSALEM -- Orthodox Christian clergymen and pilgrims are marking Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City, at the site where they believe Jesus was crucified on this date two millennia ago.
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Disappointment with US not prosecuting CIA
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4.17.2009 : 10:33 am
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CAIRO -- Human rights groups and former detainees in U.S. custody expressed disappointment Friday with the decision by President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA operatives who used interrogation practices described by many as torture.
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Palestinian killed in West Bank violence
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4.17.2009 : 9:05 am
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BEIT HAGAI, West Bank -- A Palestinian wielding a knife was shot and killed by Jewish settlers early Friday after he tried to attack residents of a West Bank settlement, the Israeli military said, in violence likely to further heighten tensions between Palestinians and Israel's new hard-line government.
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US military: 1 Marine dies in noncombat incident
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4.17.2009 : 3:46 am
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BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military says an American Marine has died as a result of a noncombat related incident in Iraq's western Anbar province.
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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,273
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4.16.2009 : 7:40 pm
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As of Thursday, April 16, 2009, at least 4,273 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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US Senator: Sudan will allow aid back to Darfur
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4.16.2009 : 5:34 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- U.S. Senator John Kerry said Thursday that Sudan has agreed to allow some aid back into Darfur, more than a month after the Sudanese president expelled over a dozen aid groups from the region.
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Israeli conductor Barenboim gets ovation in Egypt
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4.16.2009 : 4:58 pm
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CAIRO -- Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim stirred a sold out Cairo Opera House Thursday with a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, drawing ovations in his first visit to Egypt.
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Islamists fight Yemen law banning child marriage
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4.16.2009 : 3:45 pm
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SAN'A, Yemen -- She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the man's sister without paying the obligatory bride-price.
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Iranian scientists claim they have cloned a goat
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4.16.2009 : 3:31 pm
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ISFAHAN, Iran -- Iranian scientists have cloned a goat and plan future experiments they hope will lead to a treatment for stroke patients, the leader of the research said Wednesday. The female goat, named Hana, was born early Wednesday in the city of Isfahan in central Iran, said Dr. Mohammed Hossein Nasr e Isfahani, head of the Royan Research Institute.
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Claims of biz swindle in Dubai's ruling family
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4.16.2009 : 5:23 am
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- In this Gulf city-state, two things have long been untouchable: business interests and the ruling family. However, an attempt to sue a member of the family over an alleged financial swindle is a sign of how much the economic crisis has rattled business as usual here.
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Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb
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4.16.2009 : 4:36 am
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CAIRO -- Archaeologists will begin excavating sites in Egypt next week in an attempt to solve a mystery that has stymied historians for hundreds of years: Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony?
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Iran willing to build new relationship with US
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4.16.2009 : 12:28 am
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president on Wednesday sent the clearest signal yet that the Islamic Republic wants warmer ties with the U.S., just one day after Washington spoke of new strategies to address the country's disputed nuclear program. Taken together, the developments indicate that the longtime adversaries are seeking ways to return to the negotiating table and ease a nearly 30-year-old diplomatic standoff.
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Iraq study: Executions are leading cause of death
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4.16.2009 : 12:27 am
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BAGHDAD -- Execution-style killings, not headline-grabbing bombings, have been the leading cause of death among civilians in the Iraq war, a study released Wednesday shows. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to the brutal sectarian nature of the conflict, where death squads once roamed the streets hunting down members of the rival Muslim sect.
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Sudan court sentences 10 alleged rebels to death
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4.15.2009 : 5:09 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese anti-terrorism court on Wednesday convicted 10 alleged Darfur rebels of waging war and sentenced them to death for their role in last year's deadly attack on the country's capital, court officials said.
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Israel balks at UN war crimes probe of Gaza war
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4.15.2009 : 11:16 am
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JERUSALEM -- Israel is unlikely to cooperate with a Gaza war crimes probe because it distrusts the U.N. agency sponsoring the investigation, an Israeli government official said Wednesday.
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US commander in Gulf submarine crash loses command
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4.15.2009 : 11:13 am
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- The skipper of an American nuclear submarine that collided with another U.S. Navy vessel at the mouth of the Persian Gulf last month has been relieved of command, the Navy said.
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Drought threatens `Garden of Eden' marshes in Iraq
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4.15.2009 : 9:59 am
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HOR AL-HAMMAR, Iraq -- A severe drought is threatening Iraq's southern marshes -- the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden -- just as the region was recovering from Saddam Hussein's draining of its lakes and swamps to punish a political rebellion.
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Iranian group in Iraq part of high-stakes politics
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4.14.2009 : 4:19 pm
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government is stepping up efforts to pressure Iranian exiles into leaving the country, pushing an obscure group to the forefront of Baghdad's relations with Washington and the Obama administration's overtures to Iran.
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Lebanese Shiite cleric: US and Iran can cooperate
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4.14.2009 : 4:17 pm
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BEIRUT -- Lebanon's top Shiite cleric said Tuesday he believes cooperation is possible between Iran and the United States under the Obama administration, although he discounted any hope of an alliance between the adversaries.
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Iran to launch new satellite into orbit
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4.14.2009 : 4:04 pm
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran planned to launch a "more sophisticated" satellite into orbit, another potential step forward for the country's space program that have raised concerns in the West.
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Lebanese ex-general accused of spying for Israel
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4.14.2009 : 3:58 pm
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BEIRUT -- A retired Lebanese general was arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel, a senior Lebanese security official said Tuesday, in the latest episode in the two countries' long-running espionage war.
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US Cmdr: Somali pirates threatened hostage captain
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4.14.2009 : 3:39 pm
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- The skipper of the USS Bainbridge said Tuesday that pirates repeatedly threatened to kill the American sea captain they held captive off the coast of Somalia before his rescue this week.
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Iran says US journalist tried behind closed doors
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4.14.2009 : 3:27 pm
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Tuesday its national security court put an American journalist on trial behind closed doors on allegations she spied for the U.S. -- a charge Washington calls baseless.
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Scientist: First cloned camel born in Dubai
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4.14.2009 : 3:06 pm
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A scientist says the world's first cloned camel has been produced in the desert emirate of Dubai. Nisar Ahmad Wani, a senior reproductive biologist at the government's Camel Reproduction Center, says the cloned camel is a six-day-old, one-humped female called Achievement or Injaz in Arabic.
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Diplomats say world powers talking new Iran tack
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4.14.2009 : 3:00 pm
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VIENNA -- The U.S. and five other world powers are planning talks on new strategies to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, diplomats from the countries involved said Tuesday.
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Sudan police break up protest against executions
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4.14.2009 : 12:10 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Police have used tear gas to disperse dozens of Sudanese protesting the execution of nine people from the Darfur region who were convicted in the killing of a newspaper editor.
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US to give Lebanon military unmanned aircraft
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4.14.2009 : 11:41 am
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BEIRUT -- The United States said Tuesday it is providing Lebanon with 12 unmanned military aircraft in the coming months, the latest effort to bolster the fragile Mideast nation.
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Dutch couple released by kidnappers in Yemen
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4.14.2009 : 9:13 am
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SAN'A, Yemen -- A Dutch couple held for two weeks by armed Yemeni tribesmen were freed Tuesday, and a tribal leader said Yemen's government paid more than a quarter million dollars in ransom.
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Shiites praise pardon of activists in Bahrain
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4.14.2009 : 9:11 am
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Shiite opposition leaders praised a royal pardon in Bahrain that freed 22 activists, saying Tuesday that the releases helped defuse tensions that boiled over into clashes between Shiite youths and police over the past month in the Gulf island nation.
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Israel catches infiltrator from Syria
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4.14.2009 : 8:43 am
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's military says it has apprehended a man who crossed into the country on foot from neighboring Syria. The military says the unarmed man entered the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights early Tuesday and was quickly detained by Israeli troops and taken for questioning. The army says the man did not appear to have hostile intentions and would likely be returned quickly.
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Police: Explosives stashed in West Bank mosque
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4.14.2009 : 8:30 am
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian police say they have uncovered an explosives lab in a West Bank mosque. Police spokesman Adnan Damiri says eight suspects have been arrested since the discovery several days ago.
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Israel's Peres kicks off new career as TV host
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4.14.2009 : 6:18 am
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's 85-year-old president, Shimon Peres, is kicking off a new career -- as a TV host. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's show will be called "A Meeting of the Minds at the President's House," his spokeswoman, Ayelet Frisch, said Tuesday.
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Displaced Christians want pope to help them return
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4.14.2009 : 5:19 am
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BIRAM, Israel -- Displaced during war decades ago, the Christians of Biram have never given up their dream of returning to this destroyed village in the hills of northern Israel. They still hold Easter rites, weddings and funerals in a stone church, the only building left standing.
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