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Reuters – Sat Jan 30, 7:12 pm ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A shipment of weapons from North Korea seized by Thai authorities last month were headed for Iran, according to a confidential report the Thai government sent to a U.N. Security Council committee.
AFP – 1 hr 2 mins ago
LUANDA (AFP) - Egypt entered the record books here on Sunday, beating Ghana 1-0 in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations with supersub Mohamed 'Gedo' Nagy lifting the Pharaohs to their third straight title.
AFP – 1 hr 37 mins ago
CAIRO (AFP) - One of the great remaining mysteries of ancient Egypt, the lineage of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, may soon be solved, the country's antiquities supremo hinted on Sunday.
AFP – Sat Jan 30, 10:22 am ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Opposition heads on Saturday implicitly called for demonstrations on the February 11 anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, as the elite Revolutionary Guards warned that any such protest will be crushed.
AFP – 16 mins ago
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's handover of the African Union presidency to Malawi Sunday was greeted with hushed relief by many diplomats after a year of infighting they said harmed the body's image.
Reuters – Sat Jan 30, 9:13 am ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A trial began on Saturday of 16 opposition protesters charged over unrest connected with Iran's disputed June presidential election, with the Revolutionary Guards warning against further demonstrations.
AFP – 48 mins ago
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian energy giant Lukoil signed an agreement in Baghdad on Sunday to develop Iraq's massive West Qurna-2 oil field, the company said in a statement.
Reuters – Sat Jan 30, 7:55 am ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, criticized by rights groups for its policy of executing some criminals, hanged two men on Saturday for rape, a local news agency reported
AFP – Sat Jan 30, 2:42 pm ET
SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a memorial service where anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen and local dignitaries had gathered on Saturday, killing two people and wounding 19 others, police said.
AFP – Sat Jan 30, 7:28 am ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Opposition heads on Saturday implicitly called for demonstrations on the February 11 anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, as the Revolutionary Guards warned that any such protest will be crushed.
AFP – Sat Jan 30, 11:58 am ET
BEIRUT (AFP) - Salvage teams turned over debris to the Lebanese army on Saturday as they scoured the seabed for the black boxes of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed off Beirut, leaving 90 people presumed dead.
AP – Sat Jan 30, 2:24 am ET
CAIRO - Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.
AFP – Sat Jan 30, 6:44 am ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Opposition leaders in a meeting on Saturday condemned the execution of two dissidents hanged for allegedly plotting to topple the Islamic regime after Iran's election dispute broke out in June.
AFP – Sat Jan 30, 8:18 am ET
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni security forces detained a suspected Al-Qaeda member overnight as he prepared to carry out a suicide bombing in the southeastern port of Mukalla, an interior ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
