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Kurdish women hold pictures of jailed journalists in Istanbul on 10 September during the start of the trial of 44 journalists with suspected links to rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC

Journalists on trial in Turkey highlight Kurdish plight

Journalists held on trial for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers Party…

September 11, 2012

Picture taken on 10 September shows Swedish journalists Johan Persson (left) and Martin Schibbye by the Kality prison in Addis Ababa after they were pardoned by the Ethiopian government. AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX / JOHAN PERSSON

The body of Libyan opposition figure resurfaces after 20 years

Al-Senussi confesses killing opposition figure, Al-Kikhia, and burying him in the backyard…

Rana Muhammad Taha

September 11, 2012

People walk past a row of destroyed buildings near the Al-Hayat Hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 10. Syrian troops on Tuesday pounded Aleppo to thwart a rebel advance in Syria's second city, activists said, as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited a Jordanian camp for refugees from the conflict. AFP Photo

Aleppo pounded as Jolie visits Syria refugees

Bloodshed continues in Syria, as Lakhdar Brahimi hold Syrian-crisis talks in Cairo

Daily News Egypt

September 11, 2012

Screenshot of a video posted on the Internet by Al-Malahem Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, on 6 October, shows second in command Saeed al-Shehri AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-MALAHEM MEDIA FOUNDATION

High ranking Al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen

Yemeni military declare the death of Sa'id Ali Al-Shihri

Ahmed Aboulenein

September 10, 2012

A man carries a Palestinian child to be treated for wounds on 10 September at the Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB

Rockets and air raids exchanged between Gaza and Israel

Raids on the Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired into Israel

September 10, 2012

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon waits to address the twenty-first session of the UN Human Rights Council on 10 September at the United Nations offices in Geneva. Ban and his human rights chief Navi Pillay called for more accountability for the bloodshed in Syria. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI

UN’s attackers in Syria must face justice: Pillay

Navi Pillay calls for holding UN attackers accountable for their actions

Daily News Egypt

September 10, 2012

Mohamed Magdy Al-Hamshari was arrested at Rafiq Hariri Airport in Beirut (File photo) AFP PHOTO

Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh

Egyptian doctor arrested in Beirut

Mohamed Al-Hamshari under military investigation in Lebanon

September 10, 2012

A poster welcoming Pope Benedict XVI appears under an billboard advertisement for a retail shop on the Dbayeh highway, north of Beirut AFP PHOTO / PATRICK BAZ

Vatican Pope to visit Beirut

Pope Benedict XVI calls Middle East visit a “pilgrimage for peace”

September 10, 2012

Fighters pass weapons through a hole in a building before an offensive against government forces in Izza neighbourhood of the embattled northern city of Aleppo AFP PHOTO / ZAC BAILLIE

Al-Qaeda-linked militant threatens Syria

Abu Sayyaf vows to fight against Al-Assad

Daily News Egypt

September 10, 2012

Syrian women protesting outside of the Arab League building in Cairo Hassan Ibrahim / DNE

Syrian women on hunger strike in Cairo

Six women on seventh day of hunger strike in front of the…

Rana Muhammad Taha

September 9, 2012