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Backers Of Yemen's Saleh Warn Of Coup
SANAA, Yemen, Aug. 12 (UPI) — A national council proposed by the Yemeni opposition will either be dead on arrival or be viewed as a call for war, a government minister said. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was released this week from a hospital in Saudi Arabia more than two months after he suffered injuries […]
Backers Of Yemen’s Saleh Warn Of Coup
SANAA, Yemen, Aug. 12 (UPI) — A national council proposed by the Yemeni opposition will either be dead on arrival or be viewed as a call for war, a government minister said. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was released this week from a hospital in Saudi Arabia more than two months after he suffered injuries […]
Mubarak's Attorney Seeks Criminal Records
CAIRO, Aug. 12 (UPI) — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s attorney says he wants to see criminal records of protesters hurt or killed in the uprising leading to Mubarak’s exit. Yousry Abdel Razak filed a lawsuit Friday with the Administrative Court requesting the names of people injured or killed in the country’s revolution between Jan. […]
Mubarak’s Attorney Seeks Criminal Records
CAIRO, Aug. 12 (UPI) — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s attorney says he wants to see criminal records of protesters hurt or killed in the uprising leading to Mubarak’s exit. Yousry Abdel Razak filed a lawsuit Friday with the Administrative Court requesting the names of people injured or killed in the country’s revolution between Jan. […]
Iraqis Debate Strategic Council
BAGHDAD, Aug. 12 (UPI) — Though disagreements over the details of a strategic policy council remain, Sunni-backed lawmakers in Iraq said a draft law on the measure is a good first step. Former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi led the Iraqiya slate to a narrow victory in 2010 parliamentary elections. The Sunni-backed alliance was […]
Israeli Protests Grow
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 12 (UPI) — Parents, doctors, students and other Israelis turned out in force to participate in nationwide marches for better living conditions, observers said. In Tel Aviv, tent-dwellers angry about high housing costs marched from the Ichilov Medical Center toward the city’s shopping district, Kikar HaMedina, and were joined by medical […]
Lukashenko Pardons Prisoners
MINSK, Belarus, Aug. 12 (UPI) — The government in Belarus announced the country’s president issued a series of pardons for anti-government protesters arrested in December. “(President) Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned from prison terms nine participants of mass disturbances on Independence Square on Dec. 19, 2010,” a presidential statement was quoted by Russia’s state-run news agency […]
Charges Filed In Fatal Lebanon Bombing
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 12 (UPI) — A military judge filed charges against “unknown” possible accomplices in a blast that killed two men trying to arm an explosive device north of Beirut, Lebanon. The men were killed when a hand grenade wrapped in plastic explosives packed with steel balls went off as they prepared to detonate […]
Divided Expectations For ‘super Committee’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) — One thing is clear: The 12-member “super committee” tasked with identifying trillions of dollars to slice from the federal deficit over the next decade has already divided observers. “My expectation is that they will not reach an agreement,” said Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution in […]
Divided Expectations For 'super Committee'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) — One thing is clear: The 12-member “super committee” tasked with identifying trillions of dollars to slice from the federal deficit over the next decade has already divided observers. “My expectation is that they will not reach an agreement,” said Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution in […]
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