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John Kerry heads back to Middle East for peace talks in Syria
Kerry departs Monday for discussions with the sultan of Oman. He then goes to Jordan to gather with 10 of America's closest European and Arab partners to discuss how to advance a political transition and end more than two years war in Syria. #World #US #Syria #Middle East #NewsTracker #John Kerry
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Workers complete spire on New York's One World Trade Center
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet (541 meters) and helping fill a void in the skyline left by the September 11, 2001 attacks. The spire makes the building the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, 47 feet (14 meters) taller than Chicago's Willis Tower, though it is substantially shorter than towers in the Middle East and Asia. #facebook #United States #India #Brazil #Middle East #markets #Argentina #Mexico #opinion #lifestyle
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Gunmen stage protest outside Libyan justice ministry
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Armed men in pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and rocket-launchers protested on the road outside Libya's justice ministry on Tuesday to press demands that former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's aides be barred from senior government posts. Tensions between the government and armed militia have been intensifying since authorities began a campaign to dislodge the gunmen from strongholds in the capital Tripoli to tackle lawlessness threatening democratic transition. #facebook #United States #Business #Middle East #NewsTracker #Russia #Argentina #Latin America #Entertainment #opinion #lifestyle
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Gunmen stage protest outside Libyan justice ministry
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Armed men in pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and rocket-launchers protested on the road outside Libya's justice ministry on Tuesday to press demands that former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's aides be barred from senior government posts. Tensions between the government and armed militia have been intensifying since authorities began a campaign to dislodge the gunmen from strongholds in the capital Tripoli to tackle lawlessness threatening democratic transition. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's government and its armed forces are so weak that swathes of the oil-producing desert country are beyond their control #United States #India #Japan #Arabic #Middle East #Argentina #United Kingdom #Latin America #Entertainment #opinion
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Many in Muslim world want sharia as law of land - survey
REUTERS - Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says. Over three-quarters of Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia want sharia courts to decide family law issues such as divorce and property disputes, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life said on Tuesday. Views on punishments such as chopping off thieves' hands or decreeing death for apostates is more evenly divided in much of the Islamic world, although more than three-quarters of Muslims in South Asia say they are justified. #United States #China #Japan #Brazil #Technology #Middle East #NewsTracker #United Kingdom #Entertainment #Muslim #opinion #countries
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Arms deal with Middle East allies signal to Iran - Hagel
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Sunday a $10 billion arms deal planned with Arab and Israeli allies sent a "very clear signal" to Iran that military options remain on the table over its nuclear programme. "The bottom line is that Iran is a threat, a real threat," Hagel, who arrived in Israel on Sunday on his first visit there as defense secretary, told reporters on his plane #India #Japan #Technology #Middle East #NewsTracker #Russia #Italy #Latin America #opinion
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United States asked Turkey PM to delay Gaza trip - Kerry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States asked Turkey's leader to delay a Gaza Strip visit so as not to upset U.S. efforts to revive Ankara's ties with Israel and Middle East peace talks, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday #facebook #Politics #India #China #Arabic #Middle East #markets #Turkey #Latin America
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As it happened: Iran state news denies quake casualties
A major earthquake was reported with an epicentre in Iran. However, the tremors were felt across north and some parts of west India. #India #Middle East #NewsTracker #Iran #earthquake
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Air strike kills 15 in Aleppo, Assad warns of regional turmoil
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian government air strike killed 15 people on Saturday, including nine children, in a district of the northern city of Aleppo where Kurdish fighters have been battling forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a violence monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a warplane had bombarded the western edges of the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, where Assad's forces have been battling rebels for nine months #United States #Business #Japan #Syria #Brazil #Middle East #markets #Argentina #United Kingdom #Latin America #Entertainment #lifestyle
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No deal in sight on final day of Iran nuclear talks
ALMATY (Reuters) - Iran enters a second day of talks with world powers on Saturday no closer to resolving a nuclear dispute that has led to sanctions on its oil exports and talk of a new Middle East war. The final day of negotiations is unlikely to achieve more than a willingness to keep talking, after Iran responded on Friday to a limited offer to ease sanctions with a proposal of its own that puzzled Western diplomats and which Russia said raised more questions than answers. With all sides aware that a breakdown in diplomacy could move the decade-old standoff a step closer to war, no one in the Kazakh city of Almaty was talking about abandoning diplomatic efforts. #facebook #United States #Brazil #France #Arabic #Middle East #markets #Entertainment #opinion #lifestyle