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Darfur integral to better US-Sudan ties: Kerry
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KHARTOUM (Agencies)
killed in S. Sudan clashes before referendum
U.S. Sen. John Kerry says Sudan’s northern government will win quick U.S. incentives if an independence referendum in the south goes smoothly, but further improvement of ties will depend on progress 
Iran says can make own nuke fuel plates, rods
TEHRAN (Agencies)
West did not think Iran can posses
Atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi declared in a report Saturday that Iran is capable of making its own nuclear fuel plates and rods, technology the West says the Islamic republic does not possess. Salehi, the 
Iraq: With al-Sadr Back In, Is U.S. on Way Out?
Anyone remember what Jay Garner, the first U.S. viceroy in Baghdad in 2003, answered when asked how long American troops would be in Iraq? “Look back on the Philippines around the turn of the 20th 
century,” he told an interviewer. “They were a coaling station for the Navy, and that allowed us to keep a great presence in the Pacific. That’s what Iraq
Barak: We Can’t Count Only on Regime Change in Iran
5 Jan 2011 (JP) The Islamic regime in Iran will likely not be around in another decade, but Israel cannot rely on a regime change when confronting the Iranian nuclear threat, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday.
Violent protests break out across Algeria
DUBAI (Al Arabiya)
Angry youth protest hard living conditions
Algeria’s angry youth violently clashed late on Wednesday with security forces in a number of 
South Sudan gets ready for independence referendum
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Agencies)
Bashir comments “extremely encouraging”: Kerry
United States Senator John Kerry on Wednesday in Khartoum hailed as “extremely 
Iran possession of Lebanon Christian property on rise
DUBAI (Jomaa Okash)
Purchases aim to divide country: labor minister
The recent rise in Iranian purchases of property owned by Christians stirred controversy in
Lebanon as the Islamic republic is
Turkish police detain 10 Qaeda suspects
ISTANBUL (Reuters)
Qaeda suspects planning New Year attacks: report
Turkish police have detained 10 suspected al-Qaeda militants who they believe were planning an 
Basra Mulls Breaking Away from Baghdad
28 Dec 2010 (Washington Times) BASRA, Iraq | Over a recent dinner, two friends — both local businessmen — dished over a simmering topic in Iraq’s oil-rich port city: whether to boost Basra’s 
Iraq Death Toll Set to be Lowest since Invasion
BAGHDAD (AFP) – The number of civilian deaths this year from violence in Iraq is set to be the lowest since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday by
