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6/9/2012 11:15:28 AM
Several Bahraini Shiite protesters are injured when police fire tear gas and bird shots to disperse them across Shiite-dominated areas in the Gulf kingdom
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6/7/2012 1:58:28 PM
Iraq's political crisis is being watched closely by Turkey, Arab Gulf states and Iran; rivals of Prime Minster Al-Maliki want him to leave office but disagree on who should replace him
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6/4/2012 4:05:45 PM
The Iraqi powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr and the secular Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc make new calls concerning a no-confidence vote against Nuri Al-Maliki and describe the country's premier as a 'dictator'
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6/4/2012 1:06:11 PM
Death toll of a suicide bombing outside Shia endowment in Baab Al-Muadham, central Baghdad, rises to 22 while a further 65 people were injured
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6/4/2012 11:28:05 AM
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6/3/2012 12:55:56 PM
A top Iraqi Shiite cleric says it is 'forbidden by Islam' to vote for secular individuals as the secular, Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc presses the President to initiate of cote of no confidence in Shiite PM
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6/2/2012 12:06:42 PM
A series of intertwined political crises that began with accusations that Iraq's prime minister was consolidating power have escalated into calls to unseat him, and paralysed the country's government
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6/2/2012 10:14:13 AM
Overnight clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian regime gunmen left one person dead and five people wounded in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli
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5/31/2012 5:11:04 PM
Proposed union between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain seems a little far-fetched as it is strongly opposed by other Gulf Cooperation Council members and the island's Iranian-backed Shia majority
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5/29/2012 5:52:55 PM
The two Bahraini opposition activists Hasan Musheime and Abdel Jalil Al-Sankis say they were 'tortured' in detention and called on the judge to release them as they face charge of plotting to overthrow the Sunni monarchy
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5/28/2012 11:04:38 AM
3 Shia Muslims killed and 6 wounded by gunmen in the Pakistani village of Parachinar, a tribal flashpoint for sectarian violence between majority Sunni and minority Shia
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5/28/2012 11:04:09 AM
Head of the Syrian National Council says the Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were kidnapped in Syria are still in the country, suggesting they were not civilians but had participated in military training
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5/26/2012 3:01:54 PM
Island kingdom to stop broadcasting 'Bahrain bouquet' on Arabsat in protest at what it says is an Iran-led hostile media campaign against it and Saudi Arabia
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5/26/2012 12:09:32 PM
As Lebanon awaits the kidnapped hostages, Syrian activists say government troops shelled Houla in Homs province, killing at least 50 people including 13 children
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5/23/2012 11:23:05 AM
Saudi King Abdullah expresses his fear over targeting the Sunni majority in Lebanon amid the sectarian tensions hitting the multi-ethnic state during a phone call with President Michel Sleiman
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5/22/2012 2:20:47 PM
Lebanese authorities free Islamist Shadi Al-Mawlawi, whose arrest earlier this month had triggered sectarian clashes between pro- and anti-Damascus groups in coastal city of Tripoli
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5/22/2012 2:19:39 PM
For third day in row, protesters block roads in Lebanon's northern Akkar region, where two Sunni clerics were killed at an army checkpoint this weekend
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5/22/2012 12:38:12 PM
UN chief Ban Ki-moon appeals for calm in Lebanon after gunbattles erupted in the capital, Beirut hoping it wasn't a sign Lebanese sympathies with factions in Syria will break into civil war at home
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5/21/2012 8:53:32 PM
Arab League chief calls on Iran to stop its media campaign against Bahrain and affirms that any steps taken towards a union between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia is a sovereign issue of the two countries
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5/21/2012 3:35:40 PM
Thousands participate in killed cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Wahid charging tense Beirut streets with emotion a day following clashes that killed 2
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