Clinton offers aid to boost ties with Muslim world
* US secretary of state announces $76m for Yemen, $30m Jordan
MARRAKESH: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim world and urged Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries to move beyond recrimination in the search for peace.
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Majority wants US air base in Japan moved
TOKYO: A majority of residents in Okinawa say they want the United States to move its controversial air base off the southern Japanese island, or even out of the country entirely, according to a poll on Tuesday.
A dispute over a planned relocation of the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Base on Okinawa...
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Eq Guinea pardons Brit coup plotter
DAKAR: Equatorial Guinea has pardoned British mercenary Simon Mann for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot, allowing him to seek medical treatment after serving just over one year of a 34-year sentence.
The pardon by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo comes just weeks before a Nov. 29 poll...
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North Korea produces more weapons-grade plutonium
* Pyongyang may have ability to make one nuclear bomb
SEOUL: North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms.
"We have...
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Israel calls for Arab ‘Marshall Plan’ to help Palestinians
* UN assembly draft resolution urges action on Gaza war crimes
JERUSALEM: A top Israeli official urged Arab states on Tuesday to create a 10 billion dollar "Marshall Plan" to boost the Palestinian economy and support Middle East peace talks.
"The Arab countries could do much more....
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Africa boycotts climate talks, asks rich nations to cut CO2 emissions
* Accuses Europe, Japan and Canada of stalling on targets for emission cuts
BARCELONA: African nations boycotted UN climate talks on Tuesday in a protest to urge rich countries to set deeper 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Meetings about extending the UN's carbon-cutting...
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Sheikh Khalifa re-elected UAE president
ABU DHABI: Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan was re-elected president of the United Arab Emirates for a second five-year term on Tuesday, the official news agency WAM announced.
The Supreme Federal Council, made up of the rulers of the seven emirates in the UAE, selected Sheikh Khalifa, 61....
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‘Jewish terrorist’ stirs fear of Israeli radicals
By Ori Lewis and Alastair Macdonald
A self-confessed killer dubbed "The Jewish Terrorist" has shown how far settlers may go to stop Israel trading land for peace with Palestinians and the risks even lone attackers can pose to stability in a tinderbox region. So concluded many Israelis...
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