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Tunisia polls: Sebsi wins 39.5%, Marzouki gets 33.4%

After counting nearly 95 percent of votes in Tunisia's presidential election, Beji Caid el-Sebsi, head of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party, won 39.5 percent of votes followed by interim president Moncef Marzouki. A tally conducted by Anadolu Agency showed that Marzouki came...

Syrian refugee babies die of cold in east Lebanon

BEIRUT: Two newborn Syrian refugee babies died from cold over the weekend on the rugged outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Arsal, where thousands of Syrians are living in unheated tents in freezing temperatures, medical sources told The Daily Star Monday. A 3-day-old...

Tunisia presidential vote heads into close run-off

(Reuters) - An official under former hardline ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali appears set for a close run-off in Tunisian presidential polls with a rival who says he represents the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprising that toppled him. Preliminary results in the country's first...

Syrian rebels attack besieged Shiite villages

BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants and Syrian rebels launched an attack against two predominantly Shiite Muslim villages in northern Syria that have been under siege for some 18 months, activists and a monitoring group said Sunday. The Local Coordination Committees and the...