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AFP DAMASCUS PRESIDENT Bashar al Assad said his future could only be decided at the ballot box and denied Syria was in a state of civil war, despite fresh attacks and heavy fighting on Friday near t…

AFP JERUSALEM ISRAEL’S deputy prime minister Moshe Yaalon warned Damascus on Friday it would act to defend its sovereignty if the bloody fighting in Syria continued to spill over into the occupied G…

REUTERS LONDON CHINA’S economy is likely to overtake the eurozone’s this year, India is leapfrogging Japan and by 2030 the Asian pair will be bigger than the United States, euro area and Japan combi…

AFP WASHINGTON CIA DIRECTOR David Petraeus resigned on Friday from his post, citing an extramarital affair. “Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the president to be allowed, for…

AFP DOHA VETERAN dissident George Sabra, a Christian former communist, was elected president of the Syrian National Council opposition bloc at a meeting in Doha, on Friday. The SNC’s 41-member gener…