Karzai to visit Qatar for talks on Taliban office

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Iran denies link to group arrested in Saudi Arabia over espionage

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Mursi warns of imminent measures to ‘protect the nation’

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Egypt to extradite two Qaddafi-era officials to Libya

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Al-Qaeda names Djamel Okacha its new leader in the Sahara

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U.S. embassy in Khartoum to re-open after six month closure

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Israel must ease new Gaza restrictions: rights groups

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'Mossad spy' spilled secrets to Hezbollah: report

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Nobel Prize should be snatched away from Egypt’s Baradei: Islamist opposition figure

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Arab League yet to decide on whether to grant Syria’s seat to opposition

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Opposition fighters seize Jordan-Syria border area: watchdog

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Disbanding regime’s authoritarian structure is a must: Syrian Alawite opposition

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Kerry in Iraq to press for Syria cooperation

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U.N. Myanmar envoy visits ruined city after violence

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Pakistan’s Musharraf due to return home

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Radical Islamists attack Malian city of Gao

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