29 February 2012 Last updated at 19:18 ET Homs has been subjected to hot shelling for nearly a month The fate of the besieged Baba Amr quarter in the Syrian community of Homs remains unclear after guidance troops launched a ground offensive on rebels. Sources on both sides say guidance troops tried to advance on
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29 February 2012 Last updated at 09:39 ET Saif al-Adel is on the US most-wanted record with a $5m (£3.1m) souvenir for his capture Doubts have emerged owing to the identity of a man arrested at Cairo airport on Tuesday, suspected of considering a top al-Qaeda militant. Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was detained on arrival from
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28 February 2012 Last updated at 07:15 ET By Hugh Miles United Arab Emirates The format is standard savoir-faire TV showboat up but the content reassuringly traditional The fifth season of the hit TV showboat up Million’s Poet is Abu Dhabi TV’s most popular showboat up and a boost for the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE)
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27 February 2012 Last updated at 03:15 ET By Jonathan Marcus BBC Diplomatic Correspondent An Israeli attack would hold to cope with a variety of problems For all the myriad challenges facing Israel owing to the past decade it is the pow threat from a nuclear-armed Iran that has preoccupied the country’s military planners. It
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27 February 2012 Last updated at 10:52 ET Bashar al-Assad cast his vote in the referendum, accompanied by his wife, Asma The referendum on a new draft figure in Syria, and the continuing violence in the Middle Eastern country has split opinion in both regional and global press. Editorials in Syrian state media were characteristically
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(CNN) — A troops in Libya is illegally holding two British journalists, refusing to turn them over to transitional government authorities and preventing international aid workers from visiting them, Human Rights Watch said Sunday. The Saraya Swehli troops detained Nicholas Davies and Gareth Montgomery-Johnson in Tripoli on Tuesday, February 21, along with Libyans who accompanied
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After his release on compassionate grounds in 2009, the terminally sick Megrahi returned to Libya [EPA] Fresh scientific evidence unearthed by a Scottish legal review undermines the case against the man convicted of being responsible for the Lockerbie aircraft bombing, an investigation for Al Jazeera has found. The Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC) report
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Libyan militiamen have detained two British journalists working for Iran’s Press TV and are now holding them in the capital Tripoli, officials and the media station said. Press TV said on its website a reporter and cameraman along with two local residents were seized on Wednesday by a brigade in the coastal town of Misrata,
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Libya and France have agreed to look into boosting maritime security and controlling the North African country’s borders, their defence ministers said today.
Libya urged its neighbours to helping hand-me-down owing to supporters of toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi who have fled the country, saying bilateral ties could be threatened if they did not cooperate. Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), named no symbolic countries but said Libya had spoken to Arab and African
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