November, 2013

• 5 November

  Musharraf granted bail in last legal case against him

  A Pakistan court on Monday granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on a radical mosque, bringing closer his possible release after more than six months of house arrest. The ruling by an Islamabad district court means the ex-general is on bail in all the cases brought against him since his …

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• 5 November

  French and Malian troops hunt suspects of journalist killings

  French and Malian forces are questioning suspects in northern Mali to find a small group of militants who carried out the killing last week of two French radio journalists, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday. Claude Verlon, 58 and Ghislaine Dupont, 51, both journalists at RFI radio, were found dead in northern Mali …

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• 5 November

  Tunisia extends state of emergency

  The Tunisian presidency announced Sunday it would extend the state of emergency, which has been in force since January 2011, by eight months. “The president of the republic decided to prolong the state of emergency in

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• 5 November

  Morsi says he is still Egypt’s President

  Egypt’s deposed leader Mohammed Morsi has gone on trial in Cairo, telling the judge the case is illegitimate and insisting that he remains president. As he entered the courtroom on Monday, Morsi refused to remove his blue suit and put on

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October, 2013

• 30 October

  Four French hostages in Mali freed after three years

  Four French hostages kidnapped by al Qaeda’s north African arm three years ago in Niger have been released, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday. Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dol and Marc Feret were kidnapped by AQIM in September 2010 while working for French nuclear group Areva and a subsidiary …

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• 30 October

  Algeria unsure if it will attend Geneva II conference

  Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Tuesday that his country has not decided whether to participate in the Geneva II conference on Syria, though it endorses the conference. In a joint news conference with visiting Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Hoghann, Lamamra said “when the date, the agenda and …

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• 30 October

  Armenian President, EU Representative discuss regional problems

  Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received Philippe Lefort, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia.

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• 30 October

  Greece proposes “Slavic-Albanian Macedonia” to end name dispute

  The Greek negotiator in the decades-long dispute over the name of Macedonia has put forward a proposal to call the country “the Slavic-Albanian Macedonia.” The former Yugoslav republic’s constitutional name is “the Republic of Macedonia,” but

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• 30 October

  Serbian President to meet Putin in Moscow

  President Tomislav Nikolić has arrived in Moscow, where he will attend a Serbian-Russian investment forum and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nikolić will attend a business conference entitled

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• 30 October

  Turkish FM to visit US and discuss regional developments

  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, by invitation of US Secretary of State John Kerry, is expected to pay an official visit to Washington on Nov. 18 for talks on bilateral relations and regional developments. Turkey announced on Sept. 26 that it had chosen the FD-2000 missile-defense system from

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