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Kerry urges Nigeria to respect human rights in 1st official trip to sub-Saharan Africa
Associated PressADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the...Tags: Politics, Sudan, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, U.S. Congress
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Hezbollah leader affirms support for Assad in Syria
BEIRUT — The leader of the militant group Hezbollah on Saturday aligned his powerful movement squarely behind the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and vowed victory against Syrian rebels, whom he assailed as proxy warriors for the West...Tags: Politics, Government, National Government, Michel Suleiman, Islam
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Syrian opposition struggles for unity as battle rages
ReutersISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's opposition resumed talks on Saturday aimed at closing their fractious ranks, as government forces launched a fierce onslaught on a rebel-held border town to try to gain the upper hand in the civil war. A failure of the...Tags: Politics, Russia, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Syria activists look to a grave for evidence against Assad
WASHINGTON — The hunt for proof that Syrian government forces used banned chemical weapons may come down to a rotting corpse exhumed late last month from a makeshift cemetery near Damascus. The grave diggers — a Syrian doctor and several...
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Two rockets hit southern Beirut district: residents
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday, residents said, wounding several people, a day after the leader of Lebanese Shi'ite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria...Tags: Beirut (Lebanon), Tripoli (Libya), Lebanon, Bashar Assad, Religion and Belief
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Syrian-linked death toll grows in Lebanon's Tripoli
ReutersTRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The death toll in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli reached 25 on Saturday in the seventh straight day of clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in Syria's two-year civil war, security sources said. Residents...Tags: Lebanon, Bashar Assad, Religion and Belief, Islam
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WRAPUP 2-Syrian opposition resumes tough talks on unity key to peace push
Reuters(Adds deaths, detail in Qusair fighting) * Assad forces step up battle for Qusair, 22 killed * Overnight talks fail to alter coalition composition * Veteran opposition figure Michel Kilo bargains tough * Clashing Saudi, Russian agendas muddy talks...Tags: Russia, Politics, Government, Peace Negotiations, National Government
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Between 180-200 French militants have fought in Syria -Le Monde
ReutersPARIS, May 25 (Reuters) - Between 180 and 200 French citizens have travelled to Syria in the past year to join a two-year-old rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, le Monde reported on Saturday, citing figures from France's internal DCRI and...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, Rebellions, France, Bashar Assad
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Hezbollah, Syrian government forces advance in border town
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah launched a fierce campaign to seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said. Rebels fighting to...Tags: Politics, Government, National Government, Human Rights, Islam
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Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory to Syrian ally Assad
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said on Saturday his group would stay in the Syrian war "to the end of the road" and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad. Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shi'...Tags: Lebanon, Bashar Assad, Israel, Tehran (Iran), Religion and Belief
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RPT-In Syria's shadow, Iraq violence presents new test for U.S.
Reuters(Repeats with no change in content) By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq. Unresolved sectarian...Tags: Politics, White House, George W. Bush, International Military Interventions, Iraq
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Hezbollah, Syria government forces push for advance in Qusair
ReutersBEIRUT, May 25 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah launched a fierce campaign to seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said. Rebels...Tags: Politics, Human Rights, Islam, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tripoli (Libya)
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