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Claim Saudi princes laundered Hezbollah money "fanciful"-lawyer
Reuters* Saudi princes accused of laundering money for Hezbollah * Lawyer tells High Court the allegation is "fanciful" * Business dispute to go to trial in January By Estelle Shirbon LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Two Saudi princes on Tuesday sought to...Tags: Bashar Assad, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Imperial and Royal Matters
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Claim Saudi princes laundered Hezbollah money "fanciful": lawyer
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Two Saudi princes on Tuesday sought to extricate themselves from a London legal battle with a Jordanian businessman who accuses them of laundering money for Hezbollah, an allegation their lawyer called "fanciful". Prince Mishal bin...Tags: Bashar Assad, Justice System, Judges, Imperial and Royal Matters, Crime, Law and Justice
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Saudi Arabia executes five Yemenis and displays corpses
ReutersDUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis on Tuesday for robbery and murder, then put their bodies on public display as a further punishment, state news agency SPA said. A sixth man, a Saudi national, was separately executed for...Tags: United Nations, Imperial and Royal Matters, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Criminals
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Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead
BAGHDAD — Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday amid the worst wave of violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago. The attacks, which occurred along busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Bombings, United Nations, Nouri Maliki
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Jordan premier: Arab Spring forces governments to widen press freedoms; local critics unmoved
Associated PressAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Arab Spring uprisings that toppled four Arab leaders have forced Mideast governments to allow more freedom of expression and of the press, Jordan's prime minister said Monday, but critics charged that Jordan itself is not...Tags: Government, Justice System, Censorship, National Government, Journalism
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Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 65 people
BAGHDAD -- Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday as the country's worst wave of violence since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago continued. The attacks that occurred by busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas followed...
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Khaled Hosseini on "And the Mountains Echoed"
Khaled Hosseini stormed the best-seller lists with his debut novel, “The Kite Runner,” in 2003, following it up with the even more popular “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in 2007. Both set in the author's native country of Afghanistan,...
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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
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Suspected Islamist gunmen assassinate Yemeni colonel
ReutersADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked militants, a local security official said. Colonel Abdullah al-Rabaki was walking home in the city of Mukalla in...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Shootings, Yemen, Assassinations, Saudi Arabia
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Pig's head left at Premier League player's locker
ReutersThe Sports Xchange Pig's head left at Premier League player's locker Officials of the Stoke City English Premier League soccer team are initiating an investigation after a pig's head reportedly was left in the locker of striker Kenwyne Jones at the...Tags: Soccer, BBC, Sports
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ANALYSIS-Upgrade crowns Turkey's peaceful rise but pitfalls loom
ReutersBy Paul Taylor PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - Turkey's achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a "tiger" economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces...Tags: Israel, Government, Olympic Games, Iran, Ankara (Turkey)
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Soccer-Stoke City investigating after pig's head 'prank'
ReutersLONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Stoke City opened an investigation on Friday after players reportedly left a pig's head in the locker of striker Kenwyne Jones at the Premier League club's training ground. Media reports said the angry Trinidad and Tobago...Tags: Soccer, Twitter, Inc., Sports
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