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The UN mission chief in Syria Major General Robert Mood addresses journalists in Damascus on May 26, 2012, condemning the 'brutal tragedy' in Houla In its latest global report, Amnesty International...
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World powers and Iran’s representatives sit at a table during talks on Iran’s nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty on February 26, 2013. Source: STANISLAV FILIPPOV/AFP/Getty Images This week,...
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Syrian troops photographed during a gas mask training exercise in Saudi Arabia during the run up to the first Gulf War in March 1990. Tom Stoddart/Getty ImagesIf confirmed, recent reports about the use...
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Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper speaks May 16, 2013 at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. (AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert /Getty Images) The strain between Canada and Iran was highlighted again...
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Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh (L) and Yemen’s Minister of Communications Ahmed Bin Daghr (R) attend celebrations on the occasion of the first anniversary of the handover of power in Sana’a...
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