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Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud had cleared the way for the possible execution of a prince convicted of murdering a Saudi citizen

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A Saudi royal member, who murdered a fellow Saudi, may be executed, a newspaper reported on Sunday, in a rare example of a member...

Three journalists working for the Al-Jazeera broadcaster in Cairo have been arrested by Egyptian police

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Three journalists working for the Al-Jazeera broadcaster in Cairo have been arrested by Egyptian police. The Interior Ministry said the journalists had held illegal meetings...

Mohamad Chatah was killed in a car bomb attack in Beirut

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Lebanon's army is to receive a $3 billion grant from Saudi Arabia. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman made the announcement in a televised address after the...

Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with Egyptian police and Cairo university buildings were set on fire killing one student

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Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with Egyptian police and Cairo university buildings were set on fire killing one student. State TV blamed protesters for the fire...

Ahmed al-Alwani, a member of the Sunni community, had backed protests against the mainly Shia government of PM Nouri al-Maliki and was reportedly wanted on terrorism charges

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Iraqi troops arrested MP Ahmed al-Alwani and killed his brother and at least three of his guards during a raid on his home in...

Lebanon’s ex-Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and four others have been killed in a huge explosion in central Beirut

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Lebanon’s ex-Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and four others have been killed in a huge explosion in central Beirut. Mohamad Chatah was an adviser to the...

At least 5 people have been injured by a bomb blast close to a bus in Cairo

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At least 5 people have been injured by a bomb blast close to a bus in Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry has said. Earlier reports of...

Crowds of pilgrims and tourists have begun to gather in the biblical town of Bethlehem to kick off Christmas Eve celebrations

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Crowds of pilgrims and tourists have begun to gather in the biblical town of Bethlehem to kick off Christmas Eve celebrations. The nearby Church of...

Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel were found guilty of organizing an unauthorized protest

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Egypt's leading activists Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel from the 2011 uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak have...

Hosni Mubarak’s sons, Gamal and Alaa, have been acquitted of charges of embezzlement

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Hosni Mubarak’s sons, Gamal and Alaa, and his last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, have been acquitted of charges of embezzlement by an Egyptian court. Ahmed...

Mohamed Morsi is to stand trial on charges including conspiring with foreign organizations to commit terrorist acts

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Mohamed Morsi is to stand trial on charges including conspiring with foreign organizations to commit terrorist acts. Prosecutors said Egypt’s ousted president had formed an...

A rare snowstorm has hit Jerusalem area and parts of the occupied West Bank

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A rare snowstorm has hit Jerusalem area and parts of the occupied West Bank, choking off the city and stranding hundreds in vehicles on...

Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon have been hit by a fierce winter storm

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Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon have been hit by a fierce winter storm, the UN say. There has been snow, rain, high winds and freezing...

Fighters from the Islamic Front, a new alliance of major rebel groups, took control of the bases at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey

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The US and UK have decided to suspend all "non-lethal assistance" for Syrian rebels. A US embassy spokesman in Ankara said the decision was made...

Spanish journalists Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been kidnapped in Syria

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Spanish journalists Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been kidnapped in Syria by a radical Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda. El Mundo reporter Javier...

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie has appeared in court for the first time since his arrest in August

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie has appeared in court for the first time since his arrest in August. Mohammed Badie was seized along with...

Hassan Lakkis was reputedly close to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

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Hassan Lakkis, a senior commander of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, has been killed near Beirut, the group says. Hassan Lakkis was "assassinated" near...

Yasser Arafat fell violently ill in October 2004 at his compound

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Yasser Arafat was not poisoned when he died in 2004, French scientists concluded. According to French media leaks, the scientists probing the death of the...

UN Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes were authorized in Syria at the "highest level", including by President Bashar al-Assad

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UN Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes were authorized in Syria at the "highest...

Saudi campaigner Aziza al Yousef has been stopped by police as she was driving through Riyadh

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Saudi campaigner Aziza al Yousef has been stopped by police as she was driving through Riyadh. Aziza al Yousef is a leading campaigner for giving...

The 2020 World Expo trade convention will be host by Dubai

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The 2020 World Expo trade convention will be host by Dubai. Dubai has been chosen after beating off rival bids from Brazil, Turkey and Russia. Fireworks...

Some of the EU sanctions on Iran could be lifted as early as next month, as part of a nuclear deal with world powers

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Some of the EU sanctions on Iran could be lifted as early as next month, as part of a nuclear deal with world powers,...

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu called the new nuclear agreement with Iran as a historic mistake

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The new Iran nuclear deal has been called a “historic mistake”by Israel and some Republicans in US Congress. "What was achieved last night in Geneva...

Iran has agreed, after days of intense talks in Geneva, to curb some of its nuclear activities in return for about $7 billion in sanctions relief

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Iran has agreed, after days of intense talks in Geneva, to curb some of its nuclear activities in return for about $7 billion in...

Responding to Cairo's decision to expel Ambassador Huseyin Avni Botsali, Turkey also announced the downgrading of ties and barred the Egyptian ambassador

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Turkish ambassador to Cairo has been expelled, a day after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi to be freed. Relations...