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Some 200 members of Syria’s ruling Baath party are reported to have resigned over the violent crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrations.
The resignations were centred on the southern city of Deraa, a focal point of violence that has allegedly killed 450 people in six weeks.
Shooting was heard in Deraa overnight, where the government this week sent tanks and troops to regain control.
A surprise deal to end decades of rivalry between Fatah and Hamas was on Thursday welcomed by the Palestinian leadership, but denounced by Israel as crossing “a red line.”
The agreement, announced in Cairo on Wednesday, saw the secular Fatah party which dominates the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and Gaza’s Islamist rulers agree to form a transitional government ahead of elections, within a year.
The announcement provoked a chorus of condemnation from the Israeli leadership, who said it would harm chances for peace, but Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said he believed the move would have the opposite effect.
Top Hamas and Fatah officials involved in the Cairo talks said the breakthrough had come about as a result of both the impasse in peace negotiations with Israel and the ongoing upheaval in the Arab world.
Senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar pointed to “a change in the (regional) political environment, and the failure in negotiations,” while Azzam al-Ahmed, who headed the Fatah delegation, agreed the Arab Spring “put pressure” on both factions.
A powerful blast ripped through a cafe in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on Thursday, killing 11 foreigners and three Moroccans, authorities said in what they described as a “criminal act”.
“We cannot at this stage determine the exact identity of all the victims,” said a medical source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, after the explosion in the Argana cafe in the central square of Marrakesh, a favourite spot for foreign visitors.
“Five women are among the 11 dead foreigners,” the source added.
Earlier another official said that, in addition to the 14 fatalities, 20 people were injured in the blast which he described as “criminal” in nature.
A NATO airstrike has killed 12 rebels in the besieged city of Misrata in the latest friendly fire incident in Libya’s chaotic battlefield, a doctor in the city said Thursday.
The airstrike was on Wednesday, the second day of intense fighting around Misrata’s Mediterranean port, the city’s only lifeline to the outside world. A steady stream of boats have been bringing in humanitarian aid through the port and ferrying out hundreds of wounded civilians and foreign migrant workers who were trapped when the fighting broke out two months ago.
A court in Bahrain has convicted four demonstrators and sentenced them to death over the killing of two police officers during pro-democracy protests.
Three others were sentenced to life in prison by the military court.
Bahraini authorities have responded harshly to protests which began in February, following uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
حمل اللواء المنشق عن النظام والمؤيد للمتظاهرين علي محسن الرئيس اليمني علي عبد الله صالح المسئولية المباشرة عن قتل المتظاهرين في صنعاء.
قال الرئيس السوداني عمر حسن البشير انه قد لا يعترف بجنوب السودان كدولة مستقلة اذا حاول الجنوب ضم منطقة أبيي الحدودية بين الشمال والجنوب والمتنازع عليها.
وقال البشير أمام جمع من الجماهير في ولاية جنوب كردفان في كلمة بثها التلفزيون يوم الخميس انه اذا كانت هناك أي محاولة لفصل أبيي بحيث تكون داخل حدود الدولة الجديدة فلن يعترف الشمال بهذه الدولة.
وقع انفجار في انبوب ضخ الغاز المصري بالقرب من الحدود المصرية الإسرائيلية، حسبما أفاد مسؤولون أمنيون.
وأعلن مسؤولون أن الصمامات التي تتحكم في ضخ الغاز إلى الأردن قد اغلقت.
Global politics trumped ceremonial protocol Thursday, as Britain revoked a royal wedding invitation to the Syrian ambassador because of violent government attacks on protesters there.
But critics continued to ask why the guest list had room for despots while former British prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, both from the Labour Party, were left out.
Human rights groups had criticized the decision to invite Syrian Ambassador Sami Khiyami to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials at Westminster Abbey on Friday.
كشف الدكتور السباعي أحمد السباعي كبير الأطباء الشرعيين عن عدم معرفته بمحتوي التقرير الخاص بصحة الرئيس المخلوع حسني مبارك والذي وقع عليه قبل تسليمه للنائب العام مساء الثلاثاء ويشير التقرير لعدم امكانية نقل مبارك من شرم الشيخ نظرا لإصابته بالارتجاف الاوذيني بعضلة القلب وهو ما قد يسبب وفاته.