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1. News - World - FRANCE

   Kurdish activists murdered in Paris

   Posted Jan 10th 2013, 09:02pm

   ... Francois Hollande. The murders came after Turkish media reported on Wednesday that the Turkish government and jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan had agreed on a road map to end a three-decade-old ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1124921/kurdish-activists-murdered-paris
2. News - World - SAUDI ARABIA

   King Abdullah swears in first women to Saudi Arabia's Shura Council

   Posted Feb 20th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News World Saudi Arabia King Abdullah Shura Council Agence France-Presse in Riyadh Thirty Saudi women took seats in Saudi Arabia's Shura Council for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom's history, as they were sworn in before King Abdullah yesterday in Riyadh. The women took their seats in the same room with 130 male colleagues and were sworn in collectively, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1154271/king-abdullah-swears-first-women-saudi-arabias-shura-council
3. News - World - Jordan

   Jordan’s king steers nation through turbulence

   Posted Oct 24th 2012, 04:29pm by Associated Press in Amman

   ... are heating up for King Abdullah II, a Western-oriented monarch who has run a business-friendly, pragmatic monarchy with some trappings of democracy. Jordan, a key US ally that sits at a strategic ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1068726/jordans-king-steers-nation-through-turbulence
4. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Talking points

   Posted Mar 21st 2013, 12:00am by VARIOUS

   ... In Turkey Kurds celebrate New Year, or Newroz, amid renewed peace talks between the country's secret services and the jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is expected to call a ceasefire this week as hopes grow for peace with Ankara. Earlier in the week crowds gathered in the city's Kazlicesme Square to demand freedom for Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1195685/talking-points
5. News - World - QATAR

   Clock is ticking fast, UN climate talks told

   Posted Nov 26th 2012, 05:26pm by Agence France-Presse in Doha

   ... preferable to act now because it is safer and much less costly than to delay,” said Figueres. “This is a historic conference of crucial importance,” added Qatar’s conference president, Abdullah ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1091304/un-climate-change-talks-open-qatari-capital
6. News - World - BRIEFS

   Briefs, February 28, 2013

   Posted Feb 28th 2013, 12:00am by AGENCIES

   ... in talks with Ocalan, who has been held in prison since 1999, with the aim of convincing his rebel group to end the 28-year-old conflict and to disarm. AP Socialite's ex jailed for blackmail ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1160425/briefs-february-28-2013
7. Abdullah sets up propaganda team in cyberspace

   Posted Jul 09th 2007, 12:00am by Baradan Kuppusamy

   ... chat rooms to 'challenge, defeat and silence' the opposition parties that dominate Malaysian cyberspace. The order comes directly from Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/599841/abdullah-sets-propaganda-team-cyberspace
8. Constitutional crisis as king defies Abdullah

   Posted Mar 24th 2008, 12:00am by Baradan Kuppusamy

   ... Politics Malay Malaysians Abdullah Badawi Baradan Kuppusamy in Kuala Lumpur Politics entered uncharted territory in Malyasia yesterday after the king went against convention and rejected the prime minister's nominee for chief minister of Terengganu state. The eastern state was won by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's National Front coalition - but the state government ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/630988/constitutional-crisis-king-defies-abdullah
9. Leader red-faced over $6,988 in unpaid traffic fines

   Posted Jun 12th 2006, 12:00am by Baradan Kuppusamy

   ... on a police website to allow people to check their status and pay up before they were arrested. Opposition party leader Lim Guan Eng spotted Mr Abdullah's name among the offenders and tipped off ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/552494/leader-red-faced-over-6988-unpaid-traffic-fines
10. News - World - SYRIA

    Syria air force general 'assassinated', air strikes pound rebels

    Posted Oct 30th 2012, 10:44pm by Agence France Presse

    ... “As part of their campaign to target national personalities and scientists, armed terrorist groups assassinated Air Force General Abdullah Mahmud al-Khalidi in the Damascus district of Rukn ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1073518/syria-air-force-general-assassinated-air-strikes-pound-rebels

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