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News for Friday, 2 Mar 2012

Egypt press furious over freeing of NGO suspects

Egyptian newspapers angrily accused the ruling military on Friday of caving in to US pressure to allow foreign NGO workers, including a number of Americans, to escape trial on charges...

Suicide bomber attacks NATO convoy, 7 wounded

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in the insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar Friday, wounding seven people including four soldiers, an official said. "A suicide attacker...

Netanyahu quizzed over lavish foreign trips

Israel's state comptroller has questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over lavish private trips abroad he made that were financed by businessmen, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday. It said he...

China denies dam drying up river in India

China denied Friday that a dam it was building on a major river in Tibet was impacting the lower reaches of the waterway in India, despite complaints that water-levels there...

Cameron admits riding horse in police-tabloid row

Prime Minister David Cameron sought Friday to calm a minor domestic storm by admitting he rode a horse lent by Britain's top police force to the former editor of the...

Iran votes in polls focused on Nejad support

Iran opened legislative elections on Friday, with the country's 48 million voters being called out in what is seen as a test of how much support President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has...

Obama warns Iran would ‘play victim’ if attacked

US President Barack Obama warned a premature attack on Iran would allow it to play the "victim" in the nuclear crisis, in remarks published Friday days before he meets Israeli...

PPP sweeps Senate polls by securing 19 seats

The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) won 19 seats while PML-N remained second with eight seats in the Senate election held on Friday. The ANP won seven seats of Senate while...

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