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on Tue Feb 21 4:52 PM
Anthony Shadid buried in Beirut - BlogPost
BEIRUT — Family, friends and a wider community of those he had inspired gathered Tuesday to remember the award-winning journalist Anthony Shadid, who died last week at 43 in Syria.
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on Tue Feb 21 2:28 PM
'Azerbaijan arrests Iran-linked terror s... JPost
Suspects have links to Iran, Hezbollah and were plotting to attack foreigners, AFP reports.
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Nuclear alarmism over Iran is backing us into a corner | Shashank Joshi | Comment is free
| on Tue, Feb 21, 4:08 AM
There are several untenable arguments against a nuclear Iran. It may be undesirable, but it's eminently containableGeoffrey Howe's resignation speech of November 1990 tends to be remembered for his lament on negotiating for Britain in Europe: "It...
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on Tue Feb 21 1:34 AM
Syria: tanks and troops descend on Homs as Red Cross tries to broker ceasefire
Syrian tanks and troops have massed outside the resistance stronghold of Homs for a possible ground assault even as the Red Cross tried to broker a ceasefire to allow emergency aid in.
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on Mon Feb 20 7:00 PM
Daily Star: Qabbani, Hezbollah call for boosting of national, Islamic unity
Grand Mufti Mohammad Rashid Qabbani and Hezbollah officials called Monday for boosting Islamic and national unity in Lebanon, amid fears of ongoing strife in Syria spilling over into Lebanon.
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on Mon Feb 20 10:29 AM
The “Brazilebanese”, or Brazilians from Lebanon · Global Voices
The return of Lebanese immigrants and their Brazilian families to Lebanon has resulted in the creation of an important community of "Brazilebanese". This community has been making efforts to keep ties with Brazil through the Portuguese language,...
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on Mon Feb 20 9:30 AM
Syrian troop reinforcements head to Homs, activists say
Offensive aimed at retaking rebel-held areas comes before a planned referendum that would give a bigger role to political opposition
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on Mon Feb 20 2:58 AM
allAfrica.com: Africa: Climate-Security As Agent Provocateur
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I want to take you back to 2007. Margaret Beckett was UK Foreign Secretary and chairing a United Nations Security Council debate. Instigated by the UK, this was the first Security Council debate to...
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on Sun Feb 19 9:29 PM
Clearing earthquake camps in Haiti is not pretty
International aid worker Emmett Fitzgerald has to get 20,000 very poor people squatting in front of the National Palace to pack up their tarps and tin, their plastic buckets and soiled mats — to empty the most notorious camp in Haiti and go...
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on Sun Feb 19 7:03 PM
BBC News - Syria refugees tell of civilian misery in besieged Homs
Syrian refugees scarred by bloody army siege
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