August, 2013

• 20 August

  Deadly clashes on Algeria-Mali border

  Algiers: Deadly clashes between Arabs and Tawareq raged on into a second week in an Algerian border town on Tuesday, with another eight people killed.

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• 20 August

  Turkey to keep defense agreements with Egypt

  Turkish National Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz received his Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim on Tuesday and said Turkey has not planned to cancel defense and military agreements with Egypt but there is also no new plan for military cooperation with Egypt.

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• 20 August

  Over 30,000 Kurds in Syria flee to Iraq

  Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighboring Iraq’s northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U.N. officials said Monday.

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• 20 August

  Musharraf denies charges in court

  Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and six figures have been indicted in the case of former premier Benazir Bhutto’s assassination where Musharraf denied the charges against him.

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• 20 August

  Pakistani PM pushes for end of violence

  Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has made his first televised address to the nation since taking office after winning elections in May. He called for dialogue with extremists to put an end to violence that has left thousands of people dead in the country over the past several years. But …

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• 20 August

  Georgia to discuss NATO and EU integration with Sweden

  The issue of Georgia’s integration into the EU and NATO was discussed by Georgia’s Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze during a meeting with the Director

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• 20 August

  Egypt arrested the Muslim Brotherhood leader after death toll reaches 900

  Egypt’s army-backed government detained the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader on Tuesday after a bloody crackdown on his supporters, underscoring its intention to crush the movement that had propelled the country’s first freely elected president to power.

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• 20 August

  Musharraf was indicted on Benazir Bhutto’s murder

  Pakistan’s ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf was indicted Tuesday on three counts over the murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto who died in a gun and suicide attack in December 2007. Bringing charges against a former army chief is an unprecedented move in a country ruled for more than half of …

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• 20 August

  UN Secretary General calls for full investigation of Egypt detainee deaths

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for a “full investigation” into the deaths of three dozen Islamist detainees in police custody in Egypt. Ban was “deeply disturbed by the reported deaths” of the prisoners

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• 20 August

  Serbian President to meet with representatives of Kosovo Serbs

  Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic is to meet with representatives of Kosovo Serbs on Tuesday. Last week Nikolic met with representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo and urged them to participate in the local elections in the autumn. The assembly of Kosovo which is comprised of representatives of the Serbs in …

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