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Al Qaeda offers to free Briton if cleric released
DUBAI - Al Qaeda's North African branch has offered to free a British hostage in return for the release of radical preacher Abu Qatada but warned London against handing him over to his native Jordan, a statement on an Islamist website said on Monday.
Britain says will deport radical cleric Abu Qatada
LONDON - Britain re-arrested a radical cleric once described as Osama bin Laden's "right-hand man in Europe" and said on Tuesday it would resume plans to deport him to Jordan, where he has been convicted in his absence of involvement in terrorist plots.
Turkish PM, Saudi king to meet on Syria
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet to discuss Syria on Friday, a Saudi official said on Tuesday, in a mark of accelerating diplomacy on a crisis in which both regional powers have condemned President Bashar al-Assad.
New blast hits Egypt gas pipeline serving Jordan, Israel
CAIRO - An explosion hit the Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan on Monday for 14th time since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak began last year, security sources said.
Assad's forces, rebels clash in southern border city
AMMAN - Heavily armed forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fought on Wednesday with rebels controlling a main district of the southern city of Deraa on the border with Jordan, opposition activists said.
Car bomb in south Syria kills up to 3 people
AMMAN - A car bomb exploded in Syria's southern city of Deraa on Monday, activists said, killing up to three people in a neighborhood where fighting between rebels and state forces has been fierce.
Car bomb kills girl, wounds 25 in southern Syria
AMMAN - A car bomb killed a schoolgirl on Monday and wounded 25 others at a school in the southern Syrian city of Deraa, the scene of sporadic street fighting between Free Syrian Army rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's troops, an opposition activist said.
Heavy clashes erupt in south Syria near Jordan border
AMMAN - Heavy fighting broke out overnight between armored forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels who launched coordinated attacks on army roadblocks across the southern city of Deraa on the border with Jordan, opposition activists said Monday.
Saudi king: veto against resolution shakes confidence in U.N.
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Friday slammed the Russian and Chinese veto of a U.N. resolution on Syria as an "unfavorable" move.
Swiss risk deflation if euro crisis worsens: Jordan
GENEVA/ZURICH - The Swiss National Bank fears that an escalation of the euro zone's debt crisis could prompt deflation, Thomas Jordan said in his first speech since becoming interim chairman of the central bank, stressing his determination to keep a lid on the franc.
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