A UN peace envoy has suggested that a transitional body to rule Libya will include government and rebels but neither Gaddafi nor his sons
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As NATO bombs target Zliten and rebels say they had infiltrated Tripoli, Gaddafi remains defiant calling on tribal leaders to march on Misrata to "liberate" it from rebels
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Amnesty International reveals leaked Saudi Arabian anti-terror law, says it seriously threatens freedom of expression, peaceful protest
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Tribal factions arrest militant Islamists helping the Yemeni army in its crackdown in Zinjibar, which has been under Islamist militants' control since May
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For the first time in 24 years, a Turkish head of state to visits the UK
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Iranian FM Ali Akbar Salehi stresses friendly relations with Saudi Arabia, hopes misunderstandings with the kingdom over recent events in the region can be resolved
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Al-Arabiya TV to air interview with Israeli PM Netanyahu on Thursday
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Israel declares that Hamas is using the turbulent situation in Libya to get weapons from Libyan smugglers
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Senior Libyan rebel Mahmud Jibril recommends Gaddafi's fate to be determined by the Libyans
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Iran's president calls for historians to compile documents on foreign occupation in the 1940s, with a view to filing an international lawsuit
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Jordan police report cites protester insults and Islamist calls for violence as cause for "actions of some policemen" at protest outside city hall on Friday
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Iran insists on the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, welcomes Russian-sponsored proposal to return to talks
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Ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's second trial is postponed for one week
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China to work with African Union in Libya resolution, says Chinese President Hu Jintao
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North Sudanese FM reveals fees to be imposed on south's oil infrastructure
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Germany is serving as an intermediary in a bid to convince Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to stand down amid a popular revolt against his three-decade-long rule, a newspaper report said Thursday
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Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army has spawned dozens of renegade splinter groups which frequently assassinate Iraqi officials on behalf of foreign sponsors, Sadrist and security officials say
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Yemeni Republican Guards shot dead one protester and wounded three in the second-largest city of Taez
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"We are not ready to apologise as apologising is taking responsibility," Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon told reporters in Jerusalem
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