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West Asia
Koffi Annan In Syria: “We Are At A Tipping Point”
In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, last week in which more than 100 people were killed,…
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Bahraini Activist Resumes Activities Soon After Release
Bahraini human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja holds her daughter Jude, 2, as she speaks by phone to a journalist Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at a coffee shop in Abu Saiba, Bahrain, hours after her release from jail. Al-Khawaja spent more than a month in jail on various charges relating to…
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Major news in Lebanon on May 30
Top news in <Daily Star>: Lebanese join the Free Syrian Army’s struggle news@theasian.asia
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Major news in Saudi Arabia on May 30
Top news in <Arab News>: Saudia joins global alliance, offers 14,700 daily flights news@theasian.asia
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Syrian refugees who fled their houses from Bab Dreib neighborhood in Homs province, walk at an under construction home which they took with their families temporarily, at the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arssal, eastern Lebanon, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Thousands of Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their country…
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Major news in Qatar on May 29
Top news in <Al Jazeera>: Egypt protesters storm Shafiq’s Cairo office news@theasian.asia
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Major news in Israel on May 29: Egyptians torch Shafiq HQ as vote triggers violence
Top news in <Jerusalem Post>: Egyptians torch Shafiq HQ as vote triggers violence news@theasian.asia
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Scene Of Massacre By Syrian Troops In Houla
This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on May 25 that killed more than 100 people, many of them children. The amateur footage shows people running along a street, purportedly just after the…
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Civilian Bodies Including Children Killed By Syrian Soldiers
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday, May 26, 2012, purports to show shrouded dead bodies following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people…
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Major news in Syria on May 25
Top news in <SANA>: President “Syria Able to Overcome This Crisis Thanks to Its People’s Steadfastness” news@theasian.asia
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