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 US military to keep 'strong' role in Middle East: Leon Panetta
| KUWAIT CITY: The US military will retain a "strong presence" in the Middle East despite a strategic shift to Asia, defence secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday during a visit to Kuwait. | The Unit... (photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo) The Times Of India
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 Obama: US recognizes Syria’s main rebel group
| WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Syria’s main opposition group the sole “legitimate representative” of its country’s people Tuesday, deeming the move “a big step” in the in... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster) Chicago Sun-Times
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 Morsi approves army's unity talks as rival protests grow
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will attend Wednesday’s national unity talks proposed by the military, officials confirmed on Tuesday, as rival protests for and again... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) France24
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 Mayan Apocalypse 2012: Sirince, Turkish Village, Flooded By Doomsday Believers
| Believers of the Mayan calendar prediction that the world will end on December 21 have flooded into a small village in western Turkey, near the ancient Greek city of Ep... (photo: AP / John McConnico) Huffington Post
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 Thousands stage rival rallies in Cairo
By Hamza Hendawi and Maggie Michael Associated Press Comments | Cairo — Thousands of opponents and supporters of Egypt's Islamist president staged rival rallies in ... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis) Detroit news
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 Netanyahu accuses int’l community of having ‘double standards’ over Hamas row
| London, December 11: | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the international community of ‘deafening silence’ in response to recent vows by the he... (photo: AP / Lior Mizrahi, Pool) The Siasat Daily
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 Berlusconi says PM to blame for recession
| Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has accused the technocrat government of Mario Monti of dragging Italy into recession by following economic policies by ... (photo: AP / Michel Spingler) Al Jazeera
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 Platini unmoved on technology debate
| UEFA President Michel Platini remains ardently opposed to the use of goal-line technology, which is being employed by FIFA for the first time at the Club World Cup, and... (photo: Creative Commons / Klearchos Kapoutsis) Al Jazeera
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 At Turkey summit, Karzai to confront Pakistan over spy attack
| ANKARA (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to confront Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari at a meeting in Turkey on Tuesday over the wounding of his int... (photo: USMC/ Sgt. Mallory VanderSchans) The Star
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 UN chief warns of crisis across Africa's Sahel
United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that political turmoil, terrorist activity, drug trafficking and arms smuggling are spilling over borders in Afri... (photo: UN / Ryan Brown) Zeenews
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 Opinion: Tibetans reject Chinese rule with one voice
December 11, 2012 -- Updated 0615 GMT (1415 HKT) | Protesters carrying posters of Tibetans who have self-immolated walk to the United Nations in New York on December 10, ... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) CNN
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