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The Syrian government said Sunday that Israel's attack against positions of the Syrian army earlier in the day "opens the door widely before all eventualities."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Beijing on Sunday to begin a state visit to China that will last from May 5 to 7.
Israel has carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli official said on Saturday.
Yemen's Defense Ministry said Saturday that it has seized a boat carrying 20,000 Turkey-made guns in Yemen's coastal regions.
A roadside bomb struck a military vehicle of NATO-led troops in the Taliban former stronghold Kandahar province 450 km south of Kabul on Saturday leaving five soldiers dead.
The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, CNN reported on Friday, quoting two US officials.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and ambassadors discussed "possible diplomatic moves to end" the Syria conflict after UN diplomats said mediator Lakhdar Brahimi is determined to quit.
US Defense Secretary said the administration is rethinking its previous opposition to arming Syrian opposition.
Most Americans do not want to intervene in Syria's civil war, although the percentage in favor more than doubles if Bashar al-Assad's forces use chemical weapons against their people.
The international community has yet to come to a clear conclusion though speculation was still rife on the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
An Israeli girl sits on a stool in a buttercup plantation, near the southern town of Kiryat Gat April 30, 2013.
Some 170 prisoners escaped on Tuesday from a prison in Libya's Sebha, some 800 km south of the capital of Tripoli.
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