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DAMASCUS, Feb 1 (Reuters) – A high-level delegation from Hamas arrived in Tehran early on Sunday as part of a regional push to reinforce support for the Palestinian group after the Israeli invasion of Gaza, a Hamas official said.

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DAMASCUS, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Syria wants to have a constructive dialogue with the United States after years of tension, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a visiting U.S. congressman on Saturday.

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Iraqi Christians still reeling from a string of murders last fall find themselves caught in the middle of a power struggle between Kurds and Sunni Arabs that was fueled by this weekend's elections.

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BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Iraq's provincial elections, seen as a tentative turning point for Iraq's fragile democracy, may encourage compromise in a bitter standoff over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a senior U.N. official said on Saturday.

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President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis on Saturday's provincial elections and urged the winners to work for their people.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday hailed Iraq's peaceful provincial elections as an important step forward in Iraqis taking responsibility for their own future.

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ISMAILIA, Egypt, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces detained an Islamist opposition activist on Saturday as he crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip, saying they believed he had entered Gaza illegally via a cross-border tunnel, security sources said.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran "will not be armed with a nuclear weapon."

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Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation's quest for stability in provincial elections that were carried off without major violence but tarnished by claims of flaws and threats of challenges.

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The dead loom over the morning editorial meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper. Novaya Gazeta's staff is trying to plan the next issue and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood.