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23 killed as rebels claim control of Syrian helicopter base near Damascus: Activists: At least 15 rebels and eight soldiers were killed in the fighting that started a day earlier. Abdul-Rahman and Damascus-based activist Maath al-Shami say rebels destroyed two helicopters with rocket propelled grenades and captured a tank. They say the base houses several radars. http://is.gd/VQABhh
Iran warns Turkey not to deploy Patriot missiles: - Iran said Turkey's plans to deploy Patriot defensive missiles near its border with Syria would add to the region's problems, as fears grow of the Syrian civil war spilling across frontiers. http://is.gd/Kj3stY
Russia Sends Warships To Gaza Coast: "The detachment of combat ships of the Black Sea Fleet, including the Guards missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov, the sea tug MB-304 and the big sea tanker Ivan Bubnov" http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/24/251518.html
Israel limits Palestinian access to holy site: Israel has restricted Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and arrested six Hamas members, a day after one Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire along the Gaza-Israel border. http://is.gd/hecZKZ
Israel eases up some restrictions in Gaza: Fisherman in Gaza are permitted to sail up to 6 nautical miles from the coast instead of 3 miles, Egyptian Intelligence Chief Ra'afat Shehada told Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Haaretz said Sunday. Nazar Ayesh, chairman of Gaza's fisherman union, called the decision insufficient, saying the limit should be extended to 20 miles, the Israeli daily said. http://is.gd/jz4XTE
Fact or propaganda? Report: Israeli spy satellites spot Iranian ship being loaded with rockets for Gaza: According to Sunday Times, cargo may include Fajr-5 rockets and Shahab-3 ballistic missiles; Israeli source: Despite cease-fire deal, we will attack any Gaza-bound arms shipment. http://is.gd/LtUFQs
Israel may strike at ship allegedly carrying Iranian rockets to Gaza - report: Israel has reportedly vowed to destroy rockets and other weapons being sent to Gaza by Iran. Tel Aviv issued this threat despite a recent ceasefire following eight days of bitter conflict between Gaza and Israel. http://rt.com/news/israel-gaza-weapons-ship-528/
Iran accuses U.S. of airspace violations: Iran's permanent representative at the United Nations has accused the United States of repeated violations of its airspace. In a letter to Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council, Mohammad Khazai accused the United States of carrying out "illegal and provocative" operations in the Persian Gulf. http://is.gd/kprXxx
Abbas 'fully confident' ahead of UN upgrade bid: "We are going to the U.N. fully confident in our steps. We will have our rights because you are with us," he told a crowd of around 1,000 people demonstrating support for the bid to upgrade the Palestinian rank from that of an observer entity to an observer state. http://is.gd/Ve4DoK
Report: Obama promised Israel he would place US troops in Sinai: According to the Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile, in a conversation with the Israeli regime's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, Obama pledged that U.S. troops would soon be en route to the Sinai Peninsula. http://is.gd/naoxK6
Egypt: Country Denies Plans to Deploy U.S Troops in Sinai: The Egyptian Armed Forces denied Israeli news reports about plans to deploy US forces in Sinai as part of a ceasefire agreement reached between Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel. http://is.gd/MVTojs
Explosion destroys part of Egypt intelligence building in Sinai: Witnesses from the Egyptian town of Rafah, said that terrible explosion occurred Saturday evening, in the Egyptian military facility belonging to the Egyptian border guards, which is still under construction. http://is.gd/deqMiw
Two explosions rip through Egypt's Sinai security bases:Explosions targeted security bases in Sinai on Sunday, left three people injured, according to Egyptian security officials, who speculated militant groups in Sinai could be behind the attack. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/25/251699.html
Egyptian president says decree granting new powers 'temporary,' calls for dialog: Police used teargas to disperse protesters in Cairo on Sunday, in the third consecutive day of demonstrations against Morsi. http://rt.com/news/egypt-morsi-decree-protest-538/
Egypt's Brotherhood calls for protests, judges urge for strikes Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called for protests across the country on Sunday to support President Mohammed Mursi, while the country's judges urged for a nationwide strike against a decree they saw as granting Mursi new, extensive powers. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/25/251637.html
In post-Mubarak Egypt, journalists call for general strike: Egyptian journalists call for strike to protest guarantees of press freedom in draft constitution, amid political crisis sparked by Morsi decree http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=55738
Car bomb kills at least 5 at military church in Nigeria - source: A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a church inside the Jaji military barracks in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, military sources said. http://is.gd/CDLulO
Congo once more descends into chaos: Conflict in the Middle East is overshadowing the bloody events in central Africa http://is.gd/JubHcN
Congo officials in peace talks with M23 rebels: Congolese officials are in talks Sunday with representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congo city of Goma, according to Ugandan officials. http://is.gd/1AKW6F
US Cancels Mid East Conference on Nuke-Free Zone: The US blamed regional turmoil, but it was Israel's refusal to attend that prompted cancelation http://is.gd/SqrMPl
Investigators prepare to exhume Arafat's body: Ramallah, Occupied West Bank Scientists and legal experts from Switzerland, France and Russia have begun to arrive in the West Bank in order to exhume the body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. http://is.gd/py73YG
Three killed in Yemen blast: At least three people were killed on Saturday night in a bomb attack targeting a religious commemoration in the Yemeni capital. http://is.gd/1jNRYc
Iraqi Kurds send more troops into standoff with Iraq army: Iraq's Kurdish region has sent reinforcements to a disputed area where its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi army, a senior Kurdish military official said, despite calls on both sides for dialogue to calm the situation. http://is.gd/V92dZe
Wars have disabled six million Iraqis:"People with disabilities caused by the three wars Iraq has suffered are estimated at more than 6 million," according to Raad Abdulhusain who heads the rehabilitation of disabled people in the religious province of Najaf. http://www.azzaman.com/english/?p=471
Pakistan: Bomb attack on Shi'ite parade kills five: A bomb attack on a Shi'ite Muslim procession has killed five mourners and wounded more than 80 in northwest Pakistan as Shi'ites mark their holiest day Ashura. http://is.gd/Orn8BV
3 killed as sectarian clash tensed in Kabul University : At least three Kabul University students were killed and ten others wounded as clash heavily originated from religious discrimination flamed among the Sunni and Shiite affiliated students during the Ashura mourning in Kabul University, an official said Sunday. http://is.gd/NXhkU5
US occupation force soldier killed in southern Afghanistan: At least 383 NATO troops including 294 US troops, 44 British troops and 45 soldiers from the other NATO countries have been killed in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2012 in Afghanistan. http://is.gd/70t1wP
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