New leader takes helm in Georgian rebel region

Alexander Ankvab will be inaugurated as president of breakaway Abkhazia on September 26. The...

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Feuding parties riskier than mass protests in Iraq

On February 27, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared that his government had 100 days in which...

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The elimination of Osama bin Laden by US special forces on May 2 may lessen terrorist interest in...

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President Michel Suleiman yesterday appointed Najib Mikati as the new prime minister-designate....

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Eleven ministers close to the opposition resigned yesterday, leading to the collapse of the...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad met in Doha on December 14 and...

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Parliament yesterday failed to elect the prosecutor-general for the third time. The governing...

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Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi warned on November 15 of the possibility of...

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On October 2, a cross was installed atop the church in eastern Turkey where the first Armenian...

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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is not expected to be in a position to seek a fourth term in 2014,...

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