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• The Daily Star Jun 20, 2013, 2:45 PM

Europe must take a firmer line with Iran over its controversial nuclear program, Netanyahu says at the start of a working meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

• The Daily Star Jun 20, 2013, 2:45 PM

Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebel group threatens to keep attacking "disbelievers" without respite, a day after launching a deadly assault against the United Nations in the capital Mogadishu.

• The Daily Star Jun 20, 2013, 2:45 PM

Turkey's state-run agency says police have detained 13 more demonstrators suspected of involvement in violence during protests that have swept the country.

• Naharnet Jun 20, 2013, 2:44 PM

European Union nations failed to come to a decision to add the military wing of Hizbullah to the bloc's list of international terrorist groups despite fresh talks on the issue, diplomatic sources told Agence France Presse on Thursday.At a meeting called on Wednesday at Britain's behest, the second this month, experts from the 27-nation bloc failed ...

• Naharnet Jun 20, 2013, 2:44 PM

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said Thursday that four men killed in the northeastern area of Wadi Rafeq would have been alive if Lebanese authorities had the manpower to control the border with Syria.“Had the border areas been controlled, the four men wouldn't have been martyred,” Charbel said ahead of chairing a Central Security...

• Naharnet Jun 20, 2013, 2:41 PM

A Qatari court on Thursday sentenced five people, among them the emirate's envoy to Belgium, to six years in prison over \"negligence\" that caused a deadly shopping mall blaze last year, al-Jazeera reported.All the 19 people killed in the inferno at Doha's Villagio mall on May 28, 2012, were foreigners, including 13 children, four teachers and two...

• Naharnet Jun 20, 2013, 2:39 PM

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that talks regarding the Korean peninsula should be first and foremost about ending North Korea's nuclear program.Ban said he had noted Pyongyang's calls for dialogue, but added that \"any meaningful dialogue should be firmly anchored in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula\", in comments ...

• Naharnet Jun 20, 2013, 2:39 PM

Thousands of Indian soldiers battled on Thursday to reach villages and towns cut off by flash floods and landslides in the country's north as officials warned at least 1,000 people may have been killed.Helicopters and close to 10,000 soldiers have been deployed to reach tourists and pilgrims stranded after floods caused by torrential monsoon rains ...