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Photo: Dadaab near Kenya's border with SomaliaDADAAB, 2 September 2011 (IRIN) - For months, the Kenyan government resisted opening an extension of the world’s largest refugee complex in Dadaab to accommodate Somalis displaced by drought and conflict, finally relenting in late August. The town, about...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Despite their country's turbulent history, Israelis enjoy a fairly secure existence: they have military might, a world-class high tech industry powering a strong economy, and America as a solid ally. Yet in recent years, tens of thousands have requested and received the...
UNITED NATIONS - A UN review has found that Israel's naval blockade of Gaza is legal and appropriate but that the way its forces boarded a Turkish-based flotilla trying to break that blockade 15 months ago, killing nine passengers, was excessive and unreasonable. The report, expected to be released...
BAGHDAD - Thirty-five Iraqi terror suspects tunneled their way out of a prison yesterday, and most were quickly recaptured, officials said. Abdul-Raheem al-Shimmary, the security committee chief on the provincial council, said 21 of the detainees were...
WASHINGTON - Iran is moving its most sensitive nuclear-fuel production to a heavily defended underground military facility outside the holy city of Qum, where it is less vulnerable to attack from the air, and, the Iranians hope, the kind of cyberattack that crippled its nuclear program, according to...
BEIRUT - The attorney general of the central Syrian province of Hama has resigned in protest as he detailed hundreds of killings, arrests, and torture cases by the government of President Bashar Assad. He is the highest-level official to quit the government over its brutal crackdown on five months...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - It has become a nightly duel in Bahrain: Security forces and antigovernment protesters waging hit-and-run clashes in one of the simmering conflicts of the Arab Spring. So far, the skirmishes have failed to jell into another serious challenge to the Gulf nation's...
PARIS ' The world community should escalate pressure on President Bashar al-Assad by targeting Syria's oil and gas exports to force him...
