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  • A superb Antar Yahia goal gave Algeria a 1-0 victory over Egypt Wednesday and a place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In Cairo, football fans expressed their bitter disappointment. Duration: 00:58.

    35 Egyptian police hurt as football violence simmers

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    CAIRO (AFP) - - Violent protestors injured dozens of police near the Algerian embassy in Cairo on Friday, fanning the flames of a diplomatic row that erupted over a football World Cup qualifier won by bitter rivals Algeria.

  • Iran to launch satellite on its own by late 2011

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.

  • World powers weigh new sanctions for Iran

    AP - Friday, November 20

    SEOUL, South Korea - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the six nations dealing with Iran's nuclear program will develop a package of serious new punitive measures in coming weeks.

  • U.S. warns Iran of consequences over standoff

    Reuters - Friday, November 20

    By Patricia Zengerle and Manny Mogato

  • An Iranian security guard watches over the nuclear reactor in Bushehr. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said representatives from major world powers will meet on November 20 to discuss developments with Iran's nuclear programme.

    Major powers to hold Iran nuclear talks on Nov 20

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - - Representatives from major world powers will meet in Brussels Friday to discuss developments with Iran's nuclear programme, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana's office said Thursday.

  • Iran rejects talk of sanctions over nuclear fuel deal

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    MANILA (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Thursday dismissed the possibility of sanctions over Tehran's rejection of a deal to send enriched uranium abroad for further processing.

  • Israeli air strikes wound three in Gaza - Hamas

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels and a military training compound in the Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding three people, said officials in the Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement.

  • VIDEO: The Afghan government is forming a major crime unit to tackle corruption, following escalating Western pressure on President Hamid Karzai to wipe out corruption. Duration: 00:52

    Karzai to be sworn in as US presses for reform

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    KABUL (AFP) - - Hamid Karzai will be in sworn in as Afghan president for a second term on Thursday, after the United States ramped up pressure on him to rid the war-torn country of its endemic corruption.

  • Rejecting Obama, U.S. Jews push West Bank settlement

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    By Tom Perry

  • Israel fends off criticism of settlement expansion

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israel on Wednesday defended its move to build hundreds of new homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem amid warnings that it was undermining US-led efforts to relaunch Middle East peace talks.

  • Cattle raid kills 47 in south Sudan, says official

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - A tribal cattle raid this week left 47 dead in south Sudan, an army spokesman said, the latest in a cycle of fatal clashes between pastoralists.

  • Jewish settlers look towards Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem as the foundation stone is laid for a new settlement neighborhood of Nof Zion in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem last month. Israel's decision to press ahead with the construction of new settlements in East Jerusalem could be

    Israel settlement building 'very dangerous': Obama

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Israel's decision to press ahead with the construction of new settlements in East Jerusalem could be "very dangerous," US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News.

  • Obama: Aim is to put US on path to end Afghan war

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    BEIJING - President Barack Obama said Wednesday his upcoming strategy in Afghanistan will "put us on a path towards ending the war" and that his goal is not to pass the conflict on to the next president.

  • Iraq's general election planned for January was thrown into jeopardy after Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, seen here in September 2009, vetoed the polling law.

    Iraq poll in jeopardy as VP vetoes law

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - - Iraq's general election planned for January, only the second since the fall of Saddam Hussein, was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday after Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi vetoed the polling law.

  • Obama criticises Israel over settlement-building

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    By Jeffrey Heller

  • Death of an Iran prison doctor raises suspicion

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    BEIRUT - An Iranian doctor who treated victims of torture at Tehran's most feared prison has died, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide _ raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed.

  • South Sudan violence kills 12, injures minister

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed and a government minister wounded in clashes in south Sudan, which is preparing for a referendum on whether to split off as an independent state.

  • Israel's Peres: Chavez, Ahmadinejad will fall

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Israel President Shimon Peres predicts the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long.

  • Israel army punishes troops for settlement protest

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    JERUSALEM - The Israeli army punished six soldiers, sending two to prison, for protesting the army's demolition of structures at an unauthorized settler outpost in the West Bank, the military said Tuesday.

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