Wars and Military Conflicts
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*Israel strikes Syria; UN warns against escalation in tension. Israeli officials said its second raid in days was aimed at stopping Lebanon's Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, from acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel follows through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
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*Israel strikes Syria; UN warns against escalation in tension. Israeli officials said its second raid in days was aimed at stopping Lebanon's Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, from acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel follows through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
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GENEVA, May 5- U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria, May 5- Gunmen opened fire on a group of former militants in the oil producing Niger Delta late on Saturday, leading to a shootout that left eight people dead, a security official said.
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*Hezbollah rockets key Israeli concern. *For Israel, advanced arms for Hezbollah crossed red line. In both Israeli attacks, on Friday and Sunday, long-range, Iranian-supplied missiles destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group were hit, Israeli and Western sources said.
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DUBAI, May 5- Iran called on the region to unite against Israel after a reported attack on Syria and said it was ready to train the Damascus government's army. Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, targeting Iranian-supplied missiles headed for Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Western intelligence source said.
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President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Israel has the right to guard against the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah a day after Israel attacked a Hezbollah- bound missile shipment in Syria. Israel has long made clear it is prepared to resort to force to prevent advanced Syrian weapons from reaching Hezbollah or jihadi rebels.
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*Tanzania says rebels threaten to kill its troops. DAR ES SALAAM, May 4- Rebels behind a year-long insurgency in Democratic Republic of Congo have warned Tanzania they will target its soldiers if they join a U.N. mission to the region aimed at neutralising armed groups, a Tanzanian cabinet minister said on Saturday.
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*Two-year-old uprising led by Syria's Sunni majority. BEIRUT, May 4- Hundreds of Sunni Muslim families fled Syria's coastal town of Banias on Saturday, fearing further sectarian violence after fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed dozens of people overnight, according to activists.
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*Two-year-old uprising led by Syria's Sunni majority. BEIRUT, May 4- Hundreds of Sunni Muslim families fled Syria's coastal town of Banias on Saturday, fearing further sectarian violence after fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed dozens of people overnight, according to activists.
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*Obama says up to Mexico to determine own security structure. President Barack Obama gave his blessing on Thursday to a new security arrangement with Mexican leader Enrique Pena Nieto, in which Mexico will make reducing violence a priority over hunting drug cartel kingpins in the war against organized crime.
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WASHINGTON, May 2- The United States is rethinking its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, President Barack Obama's defense chief said on Thursday, even as Obama himself signaled that no decision to deepen U.S. involvement in the conflict was imminent.
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BOSTON, May 2- The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was claimed on behalf of his family on Thursday, an official said. Tsarnaev's body had been kept at a Boston facility after he was killed in a shootout with police on April 19, four days after the attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded 264 people.
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WASHINGTON, May 2- The United States is rethinking its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday, as pressure builds for a U.S. response to Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons in its civil war.
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BERLIN, May 2- New wind farms off Germany's North Sea coast will provide an ideal habitat that could help restore the lobster population near Heligoland after British bombing during and after World War II drove them away. Billions of euros of investment in wind turbines as part of Germany's ambitious transition to renewable energy has given the scheme impetus.
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BOSTON/ WASHINGTON, May 1- Three men were taken into custody in the investigation of last month's deadly Boston Marathon bombing and charged with interfering with the probe, not planning or carrying out the attack, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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*Violent clashes in Guinea over delayed election. FRIA, Guinea, May 1- Failure by Guinea's politicians to reach agreement for a long-delayed legislative poll is stirring up tribal violence, jeopardising economic gains and raising fears that the military could once again step in.
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WASHINGTON, May 1- Two of the three people taken into custody on Wednesday in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings were college classmates of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who may have thrown away a knapsack at Tsarnaev's request, a law enforcement source said.
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MEXICO CITY, April 30- There will be no negotiations with Mexico's government over the key planks of its highly anticipated economic reform agenda until a political spat is resolved, the leader of Mexico's leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution said on Tuesday.
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*Tensions rising over campaign to oust militia from Tripoli. TRIPOLI, April 30- Armed men in pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and rocket-launchers protested on the road outside Libya's justice ministry on Tuesday to press demands that former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's aides be barred from senior government posts.