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Syrian ceasefire 'failed' says UN chief Syrian ceasefire 'failed' says UN chief
| Syrian jets bombed suburbs of Damascus and a car bomb killed 10 people in the capital today, the last day of a four-day truce which UN chief Ban Ki-moon acknowledged had failed. | Each side blamed t... (photo: UN / Staton Winter) Irish Times
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Egypts newly elected President Mohammed Morsi smiles as he meets with Bulgarian foreign minister, not pictured, in Cairo, Egypt Morsi faces feuds over Egypt charter
| Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi recently met leaders of several political groups to discuss a draft of the proposed new constitution as part of an attempt to bridge a growing gap between his admini... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) Al Jazeera
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Palestinians filling plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah. -- The Israeli blockade on Gaza has made life more difficult for the inhabitants of the camp. Unemployment levels have increased dramatically, with a large proportion of the residents relying on UNRWA's nutritional and financial assistance. Israel is an apartheid state (no poll required)
| A poll of Jewish Israelis published last week in Ha'aretz newspaper created headlines round the world with its findings of support among the public for discriminatory policies. Some greeted the surv... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Al Jazeera
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds a press conference inside the Ouagadougou Conference Centre in Sirte, Libya, where he attended the 22nd Summit Conference of the League of Arab States. U.N. chief "deeply disappointed" Syria ceasefire fails
| SEOUL (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he was deeply disappointed that a ceasefire in Syria had failed and he called on government troops and opposition groups to end th... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider) CNBC
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Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos
Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos | 19 minutes ago | New Syria fighting despite UN-backed truce | Officials say 3 killed in airstrike in north Yemen | Iran: Drone hit by Israe... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe) The Tribune San Luis Obispo
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The Yarmouk military complex in Khartoum, Sudan seen in a satellite image made on October 25 2012, following the alleged attack. A U.S. monitoring group says satellite images of the aftermath of an explosion at a Sudanese weapons factory suggest the site was hit by an airstrike. The Sudanese government has accused Israel of bombing its Yarmouk military complex in Khartoum, killing two people and leaving the factory in ruins.The images released by the Satellite Sentinel Project to The Associated Press on Saturday Oct 27 2012 showed several 52-foot wide craters. A spokesman for the project said military experts found the craters to be "consistent with large impact craters created by air-delivered munitions." Israeli officials have neither confirmed nor denied striking the site, instead accusing Sudan of playing a role in an Iranian-backed network of arms shipments to Hamas and Hezbollah. Satellite images suggest airstrike on Sudan site
| Cairo: Satellite images of the aftermath of an explosion at a Sudanese weapons factory this week suggest the site was hit in an airstrike, a US monitoring group said Saturday. | The Sudanese governm... (photo: AP / DigitalGlobe via Satellite Sentinel Project) Gulf News
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