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World
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International
8/28/2012 1:13:09 PM
UN chief Ban Ki-moon complains that despite growing public sentiment supporting disarmament, competing interests at governmental levels torpedoed the most recent negotiations
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World
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International
8/26/2012 4:06:17 PM
Death of Neil Armstrong, brought on by heart complications, brings tributes from around world
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World
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International
8/25/2012 9:03:48 PM
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World
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Region
8/24/2012 4:13:18 PM
Iran is speeding up its quest for nuclear weapons, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells a US congressman
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Region
8/21/2012 2:11:20 PM
Russia warns west from actions against Syria after Barack Obama threatened 'enormous consequences' if Syria uses chemical, biological arms
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World
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Region
8/20/2012 2:19:10 PM
Syria's ally Russia accuses the United States and the European countries of providing the rebels with large amount of weapons that trigger the conflict in the war-torn country
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Egypt
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Politics
8/7/2012 2:17:23 PM
A deadly attack on Egypt-Israel border Sunday adds to growing fears of security vacuum in the Sinai Peninsula, as evidence mounts of terrorist activity among local marginalised groups
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London 2012
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News
8/1/2012 4:08:49 PM
Kristin Armstrong of the United States won her second straight gold medal in the Olympic cycling time trial Wednesday
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World
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Region
7/28/2012 11:42:13 PM
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak welcomes a law signed by US president Obama, which gives Israel preferential access to US arms and munitions
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World
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International
7/27/2012 11:18:09 AM
UN chief urges member-states to 'show flexibility and work in good faith towards bridging their differences' as they engineer a new arms treaty to regulate the $70-billion trade
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Life & Style
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Style
7/8/2012 12:06:02 PM
Choice of style causes problems in the UAE, with some locals, which only make up one fifth of the population, uniting on social media against foreigner's bare arms and legs in their hot Gulf country
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World
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Region
7/5/2012 11:21:39 AM
Following media reports that show a grenade produced by Swiss that sent to the UAE on 2003 was found in Syria, Switzerland freezes arms exports to the United Arab Emirates
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World
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Region
6/22/2012 4:45:21 PM
Turkey's Foreign ministry spokesman denies shipping weapons to Syrian rebels across the borders; Turkey is currently home to 32,750 Syrian refugees
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World
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Region
6/21/2012 11:56:51 AM
US provides Syrian rebels with weapons that are funded by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and funnelled across the border by a shadowy opposition network, the New York Times reports
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World
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Region
6/20/2012 6:37:29 PM
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World
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Region
6/19/2012 8:39:47 PM
Russia faces mounting Western criticism over delivery of heavy weapons to violence-wracked Syria
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World
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Region
6/15/2012 11:52:49 AM
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denies any deliveries of attack helicopters to Syria and insists that Moscow only provides anti-air defence systems to the civil-war-torn country
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World
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Region
6/14/2012 9:54:28 AM
Amnesty international calls the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Syria as it says the Al-Assad regime carries out organized killings and executions to civilians that amount to crimes against humanity
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World
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Region
6/13/2012 7:39:53 PM
Russia's foreign minister accuses US of giving arms to Syrian rebel forces following accusation by Washington that Moscow is supplying Al-Assad's regime with attack helicopters
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World
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Region
6/13/2012 12:12:38 PM
While declining to comment on recently emergent reports that Russia was sending helicopters to aid the Bashar al-Assad regime, it nevertheless stated its deliveries were in line with UN regulations
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