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Syrian troops kill 10 in eastern city (AP)

In this image made from video, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Assad gave his first speech Tuesday since he agreed last month to an Arab League plan to halt the government's crackdown on dissent. (AP Photo/Syrian State Television via APTN) SYRIA OUTAP – Activists say Syrian security forces have shot dead at least 10 people in an eastern city despite the presence of an Arab observer mission in the area.


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NATO says 3 troops killed in eastern Afghanistan (AP)

A view of the World Conference Centre (WCCB), in Bonn, Germany, Saturday Dec. 3, 2011. On Monday Dec. 5, 2011  the Afghanistan Conference will take place at this venue.  (AP Photo/dapd/ Hermann J. Knippertz)AP – A roadside bombing killed three NATO service members Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.


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7.2 earthquake shakes eastern Turkey

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck eastern Turkey Sunday, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths according to officials.

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Libyan rebels: Eastern oil terminal Brega seized (AP)

Rebel fighters, foreground, pray during Friday prayers in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP – Libyan rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi’s troops along the country’s Mediterranean coast said they have captured all of the strategic eastern port city of Brega, which has repeatedly changed hands in the 6-month-old civil war.


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American man abducted in eastern Pakistan (AP)

Pakistani media follow a senior police officer at outside the house of a abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Gunmen abducted an American man after raiding his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, Pakistani officials said, an unusually brazen attack on a foreigner in a country where kidnappings are believed to help fund Islamist militant movements. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP – Gunmen abducted an American after breaking in to his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in an unusually brazen raid that illustrated the threat to foreigners in this militancy-wracked, U.S.-allied country.


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Police: American abducted in eastern Pakistan (AP)

Pakistani media follow a senior police officer at outside the house of a abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Gunmen abducted an American man after raiding his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, Pakistani officials said, an unusually brazen attack on a foreigner in a country where kidnappings are believed to help fund Islamist militant movements. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP – Gunmen abducted an American man from his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, officials said, an unusually brazen raid that showed the threat to foreigners living in the militancy-wracked country.


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Syrian troops take over eastern city (AP)

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, right,  meets with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. in Damascus, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011.   Syria's president held talks with neighboring Turkey's foreign minister Tuesday as the regime faced a chorus of global reproach, with envoys from India, Brazil and South Africa also heading to Damascus to press for an end to the violent crackdown on a five-month-old uprising.  (AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Anatolian) TURKEY OUTAP – Syrian troops seized control of the eastern flashpoint city of Deir el-Zour Wednesday following intense shelling and gunfire, an activist said, as the international community intensified its pressure on the country’s president to end the deadly crackdown.


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