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  • Gunmen seize elderly father of Syria's deputy FM

    DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Gunmen on Saturday abducted the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said. (   05/18/2013 10:05 AM )

  • Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

    CAIRO (AP) -- The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, "All except the Prophet Muhammad." (   05/18/2013 9:35 AM )

  • Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

    CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart attack. (   05/18/2013 9:13 AM )

  • Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

    CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart attack. (   05/18/2013 9:13 AM )

  • Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

    CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart attack. (   05/18/2013 9:13 AM )

  • Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

    CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart attack. (   05/18/2013 9:12 AM )

  • 8 police kidnapped in western Iraq

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- Police officials say gunmen have kidnapped eight Iraqi policemen who were guarding a post on the main highway to Jordan and Syria. (   05/18/2013 8:42 AM )

  • Syrian prisons contained torture devices, report says

    BEIRUT -- Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. The rebels facilitated the New York-based group's access to facilities that had belonged to a government security agency and military intelligence in late April. In Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended his country's continuing arms shipments to Syria, saying they violate no international norms. His statement followed media reports claiming saying that Russia had recently delivered an advanced version of Yakhont antiship cruise missiles to Syria.(   05/18/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of bombings targeting Shiites, including bus stops and outdoor markets, with a total of 130 people killed since Wednesday. Scenes of bodies sprawled across a street outside a mosque and mourners killed during a funeral procession were reminiscent of some of the worst days of retaliatory warfare between the Islamic sects that peaked in 2006-2007 as U.S. forces battled extremists on both sides.(   05/18/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Egypt security forces clash with Cairo protesters

    CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas at protesters hurling firebombs at them in central Cairo, hours after hundreds of opponents of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi rallied peacefully in the streets denouncing his rule and demanding early presidential elections. (   05/17/2013 4:48 PM )

  • Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. (   05/17/2013 4:37 PM )

  • Tunisia bans conservative Islamist conference

    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend. (   05/17/2013 3:51 PM )

  • Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap

    CAIRO (AP) -- Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of their colleagues by suspected militants, underscoring the lawlessness and crisis of authority in the country two years since the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. (   05/17/2013 3:31 PM )

  • Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons

    BEIRUT (AP) -- Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (   05/17/2013 2:31 PM )

  • Bomb strikes Sunni area in Baghdad, killing 7

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials say a bomb has exploded in a commericial area in a mainly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 20. (   05/17/2013 2:14 PM )