| SARS-like virus claims new life in Saudi | | A man who had contracted the coronavirus has died in Saudi Arabia, raising the death toll in the Kingdom from the SARS-like virus to 17, the health ministry announced on its website on Wednesday. |
| Captors free 7 Egyptian security men after talks | | CAIRO — Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors on Wednesday after successful mediation, the country’s military spokesman said. |
| Let’s bury the hatchet, Mursi tells opposition | | CAIRO — Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi appealed on Wednesday to the opposition for unity, in the face of criticism he is failing the revolution that brought him to power almost a year ago. |
| US slams elimination of
candidates from race | | WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday condemned Iran’s disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidential candidates, accusing the “unaccountable” clerical leadership of seeking to tighten its grip on power. |
| Ahmadinejad to fight ally’s poll ban | | TEHRAN — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he will ask supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to reverse what he branded the unjust disqualification of a close aide from next month’s presidential election. |
| Friends of Syria meet as conflict escalates | | Backers of the Syrian uprising were to meet in Amman with the opposition Wednesday to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the two-year conflict escalated close to the border with Lebanon. |
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