UAE Defends Its Ouster of Foreign Groups
 05.04.2012 19:08  3309673 views  0 comments
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates is defending its closure of a U.S.-funded pro-democracy group and other foreign institutions and says that licensing issues forced the move. The state news agency WAM quotes an official as saying some groups violated the terms of their license and others did not have licenses. Thursday's terse statement by Abdul Rahim al-Awadhi, assistant UAE Foreign Minister for legal affairs, gave no other details. In the past two weeks, the UAE closed branches of the German pro-democracy group Konrad...
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Expert: Husky that killed newborn not a dangerous dog
05.04.2012 19:07 1929869 views 0 comments
A husky that police say killed a McKeesport infant is not a dangerous dog and should not be euthanized, a dog behavior expert testified today during a hearing to determine if the dog should be put down. Allegheny County prosecutors are seeking to have Helo declared a dangerous dog, which would likely result in euthanization, after a Feb. 16 attack on...
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Turkey PM tells Iran to act 'honestly'
05.04.2012 19:06 3034391 views 0 comments
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called on neighbouring Iran to act honestly after Tehran's about-face on Istanbul as the venue for nuclear negotiations. "It is necessary to act honestly. They continue to lose prestige in the world because of a lack of honesty," Erdogan told a televised...
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Syria conflict: Ceasefire pressure grows over peace plan
05.04.2012 18:57 3519122 views 0 comments
The UN Security Council has urged Syria to implement "urgently and...
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Israel derides 'shameful' Gunter Grass poem
05.04.2012 18:50 3328235 views 0 comments
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday described as "shameful" a poem by German Nobel laureate Gunter Grass, which accused Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. "The shameful comparison that Gunter Grass made between Israel and Iran, a regime which denies the Holocaust and calls for Israel's destruction, says very little...
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Egypt Brotherhood candidate registers for presidency
05.04.2012 18:40 2886159 views 0 comments
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidency has registered for the election set for late May. Khairat al-Shater, who announced he was running for the presidency less than a week ago, presented his papers to the electoral commission on Friday. The Muslim Brotherhood had previously said it would not field a candidate in the vote. The winner will succeed Hosni Mubarak who was deposed after a...
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Israel has few options for rocket fire from Egypt
05.04.2012 18:21 2755204 views 0 comments
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Thursday warned that Egypt's Sinai desert is becoming a "terror zone" and vowed to strike at militants there after a rocket fired from the area hit a southern Israeli resort town. The tough talk, however, was tempered by Israel's desire not to disturb the already fraught relationship with Egypt. Israeli officials acknowledged their options are limited as the new government in Egypt — one of Israel's few allies in the Arab world — tries to secure its sovereignty over the mountainous Sinai Peninsula. Thursdays' rocket attack, the first on Eilat in nearly two years, raised new Israeli concerns about militant activity in Sinai, particularly since the...
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Kofi Annan draws attention to 'urgent need' in Syria
05.04.2012 18:21 1931743 views 0 comments
UN mediator Kofi Annan has said that there is an "urgent need to stop the...
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Neal among three Pens out tonight vs. Rangers
05.04.2012 18:13 2811333 views 0 comments
Penguins winger James Neal is one of several players that will not play tonight against the New York Rangers at Consol Energy Center. Neal is out with a lower-body injury, coach...
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Cash shortage stops Gaza kids' summer camps
05.04.2012 18:07 1838520 views 0 comments
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees is cancelling its annual summer camps for children in the Gaza Strip, saying it has failed to raise enough money. "It was decided to stop the Summer Games programme in the...
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Syria crisis: Ceasefire pressure grows over peace plan
05.04.2012 18:03 3518918 views 0 comments
The UN Security Council has urged Syria to implement "urgently and visibly" a peace plan requiring a 10 April deadline for ending a military offensive against the opposition. Envoy Kofi Annan's plan calls for Damascus to pull back troops and heavy weaponry by that date,...
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Sabean graves desecrated in Iraq's Kirkuk
05.04.2012 17:51 646131 views 0 comments
A Sabean cemetery in Iraq's multi-ethnic northern city of Kirkuk has been vandalised this week, with some 20 graves desecrated, a local official belonging to the dwindling sect said on Thursday. "Unknown people damaged or destroyed 20 graves on Tuesday and Wednesday and removed the...
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NiSource announces partner, details on 70-mile gas pipeline
05.04.2012 17:39 2862926 views 0 comments
NiSource Gas Transmission and Storage has announced it will partner with a subsidiary of Exxon in a 70-mile natural gas pipeline across southwestern Pennsylvania and...
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Romney confident heÂll win Pennsylvania and fall election
05.04.2012 17:39 3603870 views 0 comments
HARRISBURG — Republican front-runner Mitt Romney considers Pennsylvania a key swing state for the fall presidential election and is certain he will win here, he told the Tribune-Review in an exclusive interview today. "Voters in this state and across the country are looking for a conservative leader to guide and serve the American people so that we can reignite the...
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Israel PM Calls Guenter Grass' Comment 'Shameful'
05.04.2012 17:25 2343403 views 0 comments
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister has lambasted German poet Guenter Grass for calling Israel a threat to world peace. Grass, a Nobel laureate, published a poem in a German newspaper on Wednesday in which he questioned how Israel could call for ending Iran's nuclear program while holding what is widely believed to be its own nuclear arsenal. Netanyahu said on Thursday that Grass's "shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran, a regime that denies the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel, says little about Israel and much about Mr....
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Israelis Prepares for Passover Festival
05.04.2012 17:24 2206010 views 0 comments
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Passover celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. The story recounts that God killed the first-born boys of Egypt after the pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from bondage, but "passed over" the houses of the Israelites. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Distraught over the death of his own son, the pharaoh let the Israelites go. They were then given the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and wandered in the desert for 40 years before arriving in the Land of Israel. The holiday begins with a traditional...
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North Shore 'pretty much chaos' for Pirates opener
05.04.2012 17:21 2612644 views 0 comments
Pittsburgh's North Shore was a transportation nightmare this morning as fans arrived early for the opening day of Pirates baseball. Commuters reported traffic jams at intersections and train...
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'Situation critical' as Bahrain hunger striker nears death
05.04.2012 16:51 576336 views 0 comments
As concerns grow for the life...
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Another bomb threat aimed at University of Pittsburgh buildings
05.04.2012 16:48 2171870 views 0 comments
The University of Pittsburgh is evacuating four buildings after it received a...
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Egypt Brotherhood's Shater registers candidacy
05.04.2012 16:35 3383960 views 0 comments
Khairat El-Shater, a leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, registered his candidacy for the country's presidency on Thursday as crowds of supporters cheered him on. More than 1,000 of his backers chanted "the people want Shater as...
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