Mali flies French Islamist’s family to Paris

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Al Arabiya: No U.N. consensus on Jordan’s Syria proposal amid refugee influx

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British jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors

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Watchdog reports ‘massacre’ in Bayda, at least 50 dead

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U.S. calls for North Korea amnesty for sentenced American

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Kenya convicts two Iranians of plotting attacks

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Israel frees Palestinian former hunger-strikers

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Sudan media says gold mine collapses, 60 trapped

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Hagel: U.S. rethinking arming Syrian rebels

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Activist to be tried for insulting Egyptian president

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Fresh round of Iran nuclear talks in Istanbul may 15

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Hamas arrests Salafists in Gaza

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Watchdog: Fierce clashes in Syria’s Banias

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At least 18 dead in Saudi floods

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Tunisia dean acquitted of veiled woman assault

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Turkish residents fear chemical weapons use in Syria

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Jordanian workers protest in Amman

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Bill Gates: Charitable donations large and small

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Al Arabiya Exclusive: Syria's peace envoy Brahimi to resign end of May

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Lebanese police arrest 2011 kidnapper of Estonians

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Tunisia hunting ‘armed groups’ near Algeria border

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Seven wounded by Syrian fire at Turkish border, say officials

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Palestinian female halts Israeli arrest of a child

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Qaddafi’s son appears in court, case postponed

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Israeli PM: Any Palestinian peace deal will go to referendum

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Kazakhstan says working with U.S. on Boston bomb probe

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