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Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry announced the execution of four men and the whipping of another seven (File photo) AFP PHOTO / HASSAN AMMAR
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Saudi Arabia beheads four, whips many more

Four people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia for breaching Saudi Islamic…

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President Mohamed Morsi (right) and Vice President Mahamud Miki (left) meeting with UN and Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, at the presidential palace in Cairo on 10 September AFP PHOTO / HO / EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY
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Brahimi set to visit Syria after Egypt, Morsy speaks to everyone

As Brahimi prepares to travel to Damascus over the coming days, Morsy…

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Man wearing a t-shirt with a picture of newly elected Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on it, waves a Somali flag as he celebrates in southern Mogadishu AFP PHOTO / ABDURASHID ABDULLE ABIKAR
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Somalia selects new president

Hassan Sheikh Mohamed faces massive obstacles as Somalia’s new president

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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
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Aleppo pounded as Jolie visits Syria refugees

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

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UN and Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (right) and Arab League General Secretary Nabil al-Arabi look at their watches as they leave the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
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Morsy’s Syria quartet in Cairo

Iran and new UN special envoy to Syria both attending Morsy's initiative…

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US soldiers stand in the shade of a tent as they watch a ceremony handing over the Bagram prison to Afghan authorities, at the US airbase in Bagram north of Kabul AFP PHOTO/ SHAH MARAI
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Notorious Afghan prison transferred to Afghan control

The prison dubbed ‘Afghanistan's Guantanamo Bay’ has gradually come under Afghan control…

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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
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UN’s attackers in Syria must face justice: Pillay

Navi Pillay calls for holding UN attackers accountable for their actions

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

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

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Ahead of elections, African Union peace keeping forces and Transitional Federal Government soldiers participate in operations to take over the former Eel Ma’an seaport, 30Kms north east of Mogadishu, on 4 September AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
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Return of the king?

Somalis around the world await the naming of their next president

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A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the Ezza district of the northern city of Aleppo on 8 September AFP PHOTO / ZAC BAILLIE
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Fighting continues as Brahimi travels to Cairo

Brahimi visiting Cairo as a peace envoy, having scheduled talks with Arab…

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