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West may boost Syria rebels if Assad won't talk peace

AMMAN - Washington threatened on Wednesday to increase support for Syria's rebels if President Bashar al-Assad refuses to discuss a political end to a civil war that is spreading across borders.

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Two suicide bombers strike in northern Niger towns- sources

NIAMEY - Two suicide bombers struck on Thursday at a military barracks and a plant run by French nuclear group Areva in northern Niger, according to military and company sources.

Africa 3:45am EDT

Five killed, 50 wounded in Lebanon's Tripoli

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Five people were killed and more than 50 wounded in overnight clashes in Tripoli between Lebanese gunmen loyal to rival factions in Syria's civil war, doctors and security sources said on Thursday.

Libya 3:30am EDT

Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability

TUNIS - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities.

Tunisia, Mali 1:15am EDT

IMF's Lagarde in court for French arbitration case

PARIS - IMF chief Christine Lagarde arrived in court on Thursday to be questioned by a French magistrate over her role in a 285-million-euro ($366 million) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

2:58am EDT

France backs call to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list

PARIS - France is ready to support a British initiative to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, an official said on Thursday, confirming comments by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

France 2:50am EDT