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Israeli police stoned at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound

Palestinian protesters hurled stones and shoes at police escorting Jewish and Christian visitors inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday, Israeli police said.
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Afghan protests erupt over Koran burning

Protesters hurling petrol bombs and firing slingshots besieged the largest US-run military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday, furious over reports that NATO troops burned copies of the Koran....
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Taliban behead four alleged spies: official

Taliban militants have beheaded four men for allegedly spying for the government in southern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday....
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Yemenis vote as Saleh's 33-year rule comes to end

Yemenis voted in large numbers on Tuesday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year hardline rule came to an end in a poll marred by deadly clashes in the south and a Shiite rebel boycott in the north....
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Kuwait to post record income, surplus

OPEC member Kuwait was forecast Sunday to post its largest revenues and budget surplus ever this current fiscal year on the back of high oil prices and production, a local economic report said....
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Syria's ancient desert city besieged: residents

The Syrian army has been laying siege to the ancient city of Palmyra, a world heritage site, since early February and shooting at anything that moves from a historic citadel, residents say....
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Israel holds 18 after tourists stoned

Israeli police arrested 18 Palestinians in the grounds of Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque complex on Sunday after tourists visiting the site under police escort were stoned, police said....
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Afghanistan hopeful of Pakistan's help in peace drive

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan is optimistic that regional power Pakistan will help the Kabul government advance a reconciliation process with the Taliban, the Afghan president's spokesman said Saturday....
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Bahrain deports four foreign activists

Bahrain announced the deportation of four foreign activists for "taking part in illegal demonstrations," bringing to 12 the number expelled over the past week....
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Iraq accuses some Arab states of helping fund terror

Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi accused some Arab states he did not identify Friday of helping to fund terrorism, and expressed concern about security at the Syrian border....
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