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WASHINGTON (AFP) ? The use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely by 2025, according to a bleak US intelligence report that warns that US global dominance is likely to weaken over the next

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Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- A negotiator for the pirates holding the Saudi supertanker "Sirius Star" off the Somali coasts has disclosed that 40 hijackers seized control of the Saudi vessel and that negotiations

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BAGHDAD, (AP) ? Chanting and waving flags, thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr filled a central Baghdad square Friday to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would

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BEIRUT, Lebanon, (AP) ? A security official says a shootout between Lebanese soldiers and a group of gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli has left one of the gunmen dead and two wounded. The

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ? An anti-piracy watchdog group on Thursday welcomed an Indian warship's destruction of a suspected pirate vessel in waters off Somalia, where hijackings have become increasingly

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) ? The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday that a Syrian site bombed by Israel in 2007 had the characteristics of a nuclear reactor. It also admitted that its investigation

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Riyadh, Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has stated that the owners of the Saudi supertanker "Sirius Star" are negotiating for its release after Somali pirates

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) ? The PLO took the unprecedented step of placing advertisements in Israeli newspapers on Thursday to promote a six-year-old Arab peace plan for the region. Palestinian President

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NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) ? Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq's highest Shiite religious authority, on Thursday lashed out at lawmakers who had left on a pilgrimage instead of voting on a divisive

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Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has compared piracy to terrorism saying it is "a disease that is afflicting the world" and said "it is definitely something very

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