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News for Sunday, 3 Apr 2011

Two protesters killed, dozens wounded in Yemen

SANAA - Two Yemenis died and dozens were wounded on Sunday when police used live rounds, tear gas and batons to try to break up protests against President Ali Abdullah...

Defiant Syria suburb awaits its protest dead

AMMAN - Hundreds of Syrians chanted "freedom" as they gathered early on Sunday to receive home wounded protesters in Douma, the Damascus suburb taking the fight closest to President Bashar...

Western plot behind regional tensions: Iran

TEHRAN - Tensions between Iran and the Gulf Arab countries are the result of a "Western and Zionist conspiracy", the foreign ministry in Tehran said on Sunday.
"Sowing discord between...

Assad appoints agriculture minister as new PM

BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed Adel Safar, who served as agriculture minister in the government which resigned last week, to form a new government, an official Syrian...

US media ramps up royal wedding coverage

WASHINGTON - While the British are already overwhelmed by the media frenzy surrounding Prince William's wedding, coverage in the United States is just now heating up and will reach fever...

1 dead in Bangladesh demo against women’s rights

DHAKA - One person was killed in southwest Bangladesh Sunday as police fired on hundreds of madrassa students protesting at government moves to ensure equal property rights for women, officials...

UN hopes for Libya aid access ‘as soon as possible’

TUNIS - The United Nations is talking to all parties in the Libyan conflict to provide aid to those in need "as soon as possible", an envoy said on Sunday....

Fighting abates in Ivory Coast economic capital

ABIDJAN - The streets of Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan were deserted Sunday while fighting abated near bastions of strongman Laurent Gbagbo after a four-day assault by rival forces, residents...

Japan battles to stop radiation leak into sea

SENDAI - Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant Sunday struggled to stop a radioactive water leak into the Pacific, as the government warned the facility may spread contamination for months.

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