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Violence persisted on Saturday in this capital city of Syria and northern Aleppo province despite a UN monitored ceasefire, leaving nine people dead.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador Ahmed Qattan returned to Egypt's capital Cairo on Saturday, a week after he was recalled following protests near the Saudi embassy.
At least six people were killed, including a woman and her two children, in an explosion that rocked Syria's northern Aleppo province on Saturday.
Director of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company said that Iranian local contractors will build a 220-km natural gas pipeline to Iraq.
At least 10 people were killed and one was injured in a US drone strike early Saturday morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan.
Two explosive devices planted under a military pickup truck went off in swift succession in the heart of Syria's capital of Damascus Saturday.
The Egyptian Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) imposed curfew in Cairo's Abbasiya square.
Chinese leaders and the head of the opposition Syrian National Council, who will begin a visit to China, will discuss whether the council can be involved in the peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan.
A nephew of Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh resigned as commander of an elite army unit.
The 2nd round of Iranian parliamentary elections began on Friday morning.
An armed group on Thursday attacked a building that houses a number of Russian experts along with their families in al-Tijara neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The head of UN observers' mission in Syria condemned on Thursday the recent fatal bombings in the unrest-ridden country over the weekend.
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