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guardian.co.uk, 06.01.09 14:33 UTC

Sarkozy urges Syria leader Assad to press Hamas for Gaza truce

. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus. Photograph: Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images Nicolas Sarkozy , the French president, today flew to ...
CAIRO  Beirut  Damascus  West Bank  Gaza  Egypt  +16 more

Los Angeles Times, 04.01.09 19:02 UTC

Suicide bomber kills 38 near Iraqi shrine

A woman sets off the explosion amid a crowd as Shiite Muslims are making an annual pilgrimage to a Baghdad holy site.
BAGHDAD  the anniversary of the death  Ashoura  Iraq  United States  Imam Hussein  +6 more

guardian.co.uk, 29.10.08 01:01 UTC

Jonathan Freedland: George Bush will soon be free to do what he wants

. We are about to enter the twilight zone, that strange black hole in political time and space that appears no more than once every four years. It is known as the period of transition, and it starts ...
LONDON  Damascus  Pakistan  United States  Syria  Israel  +17 more

Times Online, 27.10.08 17:07 UTC

Syrian Foreign Minister condemns US 'terrorist aggression'

The Syrian Foreign Minister has described a raid by American special forces inside Syrian territory as "criminal and terrorist aggression" in a solo press conference following the cancellation of a ...
Washington  LONDON  Damascus  France  Israel  Russia  +16 more

Times Online World News, 26.10.08 22:30 UTC

A warning Syria's President Assad must heed

The US airborne raid into Syrian territory marks the culmination of years of frustration with Damascus’s reluctance to police its own border with Iraq, the main point of entry for foreign ...
BAGHDAD  al-Qaim  Tehran  al-Sukkari  Damascus  Islamic Republic of Iran  +10 more

Times Online World News, 23.09.08 21:33 UTC

Fears grow in Lebanon as 10,000 Syrian troops arrive on the border

Syria has massed thousands of troops along its border with northern Lebanon in what officials in Beirut fear is a prelude to the first incursion since Syrian forces pulled out three years ago. ...
Tripoli  Beirut  Damascus  Georgia  Great river  Russia  +10 more

Times Online World News, 11.09.08 01:03 UTC

Illness of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is a 'Western conspiracy'

The hermetically sealed regime of North Korea dismissed yesterday the swirling doubts over the health of the Dear Leader as a “worthless conspiracy plot” concocted by the West. In an ...
Seoul  Pyongyang  stroke  the Times  the Times  North Korea  +9 more

Times Online World News, 12.07.08 03:03 UTC

Flop fears loom over Nicolas Sarkozy's grand plan for Mediterranean Union

President Sarkozy’s ambitions for European leadership face a big test tomorrow when he gathers the leaders of 44 nations in Paris to launch a grand scheme for a new Mediterranean Union. In the ...
Tripoli  Paris  Barcelona  Tunis  energy resources  food products  +27 more

Times Online World News, 11.07.08 03:03 UTC

Ehud Olmert will not contest leadership, officials say

Ehud Olmert's tenuous grip on power weakened further yesterday when officials of his ruling Kadima party suggested that he would not contest the leadership primaries in September. Already reeling ...
JERUSALEM  Tel Aviv  Paris  bank tender  France  Israel  +17 more

BBC World News, 07.07.08 09:00 UTC

Abbas discusses unity in Damascus

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has held talks in Syria to try to improve ties between rival Palestinian groups.
Damascus  West Bank  Gaza  United States  Syria  Palestine  +10 more
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