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Iraq's Sadr rejects US call for Assad to go
Radical cleric speaks out against 'interference' in Syrian affairs while offering to mediate between protesters and Assad's regime
EU prepares sanctions against Syria oil sector: Diplomat
Turkey to open an embassy in Somalia: PM
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will open a new embassy in famine-hit Somalia after meeting with his Somalian counterpart
Abdullah opens work on Mecca mosque extension
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will officially launch a $10.6 billion extension project for the Grand Mosque in Mecca
Relatives visit Norway massacre site
Around 500 family members of the victims of Norway's worst massacre gather on the island near Oslo
Italy urges Tripoli residents to join rebellion
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini urges the population of Tripoli to revolt against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his regime
Gaza group targeted by Israel born with intifada
The Popular Resistance Committees, the Gaza-based group blamed by Israel for Thursday's shootings which killed eight Israelis near Eilat, sprang up in 2000 as an offshoot of the Fatah movement
Gaza's PRC militants deny involvement in Eilat attacks
The Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees has denied any involvement in a series of deadly attacks near Eilat which left eight Israelis dead
Israel-Gaza violence intensifies after gunmen attack
Israeli aircraft target Hamas outposts in Gaza while rockets from Gaza are fired into southern Israel marking an escalation in violence following a series of deadly attacks along Israel's porous border with Egypt  
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    Evacuation of foreigners planned from Tripoli
    An international body says it will mount an operation, probably by sea, to evacuate thousands of foreigners trapped in Tripoli by rebel advances that have put Gaddafi's capital under siege.
    Lebanon tribunal orders investigation into 3 more attacks
    The UN-backed Lebanon tribunal says it is investigating three bomb attacks it believes are connected to the bombing which killed Lebanese politician Rafik al-Hariri in 2005
    Syrian forces shoot at protesters, killing two
    Syrian security forces shoot dead two people and launch a campaign of arrests just hours after the US and Europe demand that President Bashar Assad leave office
    Obama calls on Syria's Assad to step down
    More pressure is mounted on challenged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the US, Britain, France and Germany call for his resignation

    10 hurt, 'several dead' in attacks on southern Israel, missile fired from Egypt according to unconfirmed report
    An Israeli bus is attacked in Eilat, injuring 10 people while deaths remain unconfirmed, as a second incident of a bomb attack in Beersheba has been denied

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    Turkish PM pays landmark visit to famine-hit Somalia
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in Mogadishu to witness the devastation of a severe drought that has left some 12 million people in the Horn of Africa facing starvation

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    Suicide bomber kills 40 in Pakistan mosque
    A suicide bomber struck a mosque in a Pakistani tribal region during Friday prayers killing at least 40 people and wounding 85 others in the deadliest attack in the country in recent weeks.

    French Military barracks to be converted into mosques for prayer
    France's secular ideals are challenged once again, as a result of worshipers carrying out their prayers in the streets


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