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Friday 27th January, 2012

  • 37 killed in Syria as UN prepares to discuss escalating violence

      37 killed in Syria as UN prepares to discuss escalating violence

    Middle East News.Net

    AMMAN - Security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents claimed, as the UN Security Council prepared to discuss Damascus later in the day ahead of a possible vote next ...

  • Bomb blast in Baghdad kills 28, around 50 injured

      Bomb blast in Baghdad kills 28, around 50 injured

    Middle East News.Net

    BAGHDAD - In the deadliest attack in nearly two weeks at least 28 people were killed and around 50 injured Friday in a car bomb blast in Zafraniyah district of east Baghdad near a funeral procession ...

    • Taliban delegates arrive in Qatar for peace talks with US-Afghan officials

    Middle East News.Net

    A team of senior Taliban diplomats has reportedly arrived in Qatar in preparation for the opening of a political office and to host negotiations with America, and Afghan government officials. The ...

  • Israel senses a bluff in Iran's retaliatory strike threat

    Middle East News.Net

    Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt about a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities setting off a catastrophic set of events like a regional ...

  • After President's Departure, Yemen Braces for Transition of Leadership

    Middle East News.Net

    Yemen's outgoing president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is in Oman and has been given a visa to enter the United States for medical treatment. President Saleh left Yemen following nearly a year of protests ...

  • Egypt Blocks Departure of US NGO Workers

    Middle East News.Net

    Egyptian authorities are preventing several U.S. citizens from leaving the country because of ongoing investigations into the work of civil society groups supporting the country's legislative ...

  • Pak-Iran gas pipeline project 'not under' international sanctions: FO

    Middle East News.Net

    Pakistan has said that the gas pipeline project between it and Iran does not come under the sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear issue with the international community. "Pakistan is ...

  • Arab League, European Nations Push to End Assad's Rule

    Middle East News.Net

    The Arab League says the withdrawal of monitors from Gulf Arab states will not hinder its work in Syria as France, Britain and Germany joined efforts at the United Nations to end President Bashar ...

  • US, Arab League Face Russian Opposition on Syria

    Middle East News.Net

    The Obama administration is joining the Arab League in pushing for U.N. action to end months of political violence in Syria by calling on President Bashar al-Assad to give up power. Syria is ...

  • Suleiman wants Lebanon surrounded by democratic countries

    Ya Libnan

    President Michel Suleiman told a delegation of leaders and representatives of international democratic parties on Friday that Lebanon was concerned about the presence of democratic governments in ...

  • UN tells world: Don’t ignore Syria’s dying children

    Ya Libnan

    At least 384 children have been killed during Syria’s 10-month uprising and virtually the same number have been jailed, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund ...

  • Obama: U.S. 'Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas'

    U.S. News & World Report

    President Obama called America the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas" Thursday and said the country should start using natural gas to power more cars and trucks. Obama made the ...

  • Arab Gulf States Urged to Increase Pipelines After Iran's Oil Threats

    VOA

    As Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz intensify, some energy experts are calling on Arab Gulf states to find alternative ways to export their petroleum. Experts differ, however, on ...

  • Ahmadinejad Says Iran Ready For Nuclear Talks

    U.S. News & World Report

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear ...

  • UNICEF says 384 children killed so far in Syria

    West Australian

    GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 384 children have been killed during Syria's 10-month uprising and virtually the same number have been jailed, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said ...

  • Syria violence kills 37, U.N. Security Council to meet

    West Australian

    AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the ...

  • Syria violence spikes as diplomacy heats up

    West Australian

    DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian forces on Friday stepped up their deadly crackdown on dissent, with activists reporting almost 100 dead in two days, as violence spiked ahead of a bid to condemn Damascus at ...

  • Israel urges action as Iran 'drifts' toward nuclear goal line

    The National

    DAVOS, Switzerland // Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday the world must quickly stop Iran from reaching the point where even a "surgical" military strike could not block it ...

  • Egypt: Nag Hammadi: Muslim bandits kill two Copts. Christians live in fear of being kidnapped

    Spero News

    Cairo - Two Copts, father and son, were killed yesterday in Bahgourah, a suburb of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, shot dead by a Muslim bandit, and his accomplices because they refused to pay the money ...

  • VATICAN – ISRAEL Israel and the Vatican continue negotiations, next meeting on 11 June 2012

    Spero News

    Jerusalem – The Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the State of Israel and the Holy See held a plenary meeting yesterday hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ...

  • Egypt Stops Prominent U.S. Rights Activists From Leaving Country

    Spero News

    Egypt has banned the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and other U.S. citizens from leaving the country amid rising tensions over Egyptian restrictions on the work of international ...

  • U.S. Urges Egypt To Lift Travel Ban On NGO Staffers

    Spero News

    The United States has urged Egypt to lift travel bans placed on several U.S. pro-democracy activists in connection with a crackdown on nongovernmental organizations. Egypt banned Sam LaHood, who is ...

  • Iran Says 11 Of Its Citizens Kidnapped In Syria

    Spero News

    Iran's foreign ministry says 11 Iranian pilgrims have been kidnapped by an unknown group in Syria, which has been swept by civil unrest. Tehran is calling on the Syrian government to ...

  • Central Asian States, Iraq Last In Environmental Index

    Spero News

    Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iraq -- countries that have long occupied the lower rungs on corruption and freedoms rankings -- now have another disappointing evaluation to add to this ...

  • More than 50 killed in 2 days of turmoil in Syria

    San Diego Union-Tribune

    This citizen journalism image provide by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released early Friday Jan. 27, 2012, purports to show a Syrian man, right, mourning over the dead body of his ...

  • Syria Seeks Alternatives to Tackle Economic Sanctions

    Prensa Latina

    Por By Martin Hacthoun Damascus, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) Blackouts, increased prices of some products, and the depreciation of the currency are some of the effects Syria is currently suffering due to ...

  • Bomb Attacks Kill 28 in Iraq

    Prensa Latina

    Baghdad, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) At least 28 people were killed and about 60 were injured in a suicide attack in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, which have been shaken by similar ...

  • New Pressures of the UN Security Council Vs Syria

    Prensa Latina

    United Nations, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) The Western and Arab member countries of the UN Security Council will insist on Friday on implementing sanctions against Syria in an effort to launch a new ...

  • Women, children killed in violence-torn Syria city

    New York Post

    BEIRU - Fresh violence erupted Friday in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, a day after armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, ...

  • Egypt tells Israel Jewish festival is cancelled

    Daily Nation

    Egypt on Wednesday called off an annual Jewish festival in the Nile Delta, which draws Israeli pilgrims every year to the tomb of holy man Abu ...

  • CSAV Raises Rates From India, Middle East

    Journal of Commerce

    Hikes rates for services to Europe, Mediterranean, Africa, Latin America Chilean container carrier CSAV imposed a general rate increase on trades from the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East to ...

  • Arabs to Davos: Invest in us, don't fear us

    Jerusalem Post

    DAVOS, Switzerland - Leaders of the Arab Spring sought to assure the world's elite in Davos that the rise of political Islam is not a threat to democracy, and pleaded for help creating jobs and ...

  • Iran to restart IAEA nuclear talks

    Infowars.com

    Iranis due to open talks with UN nuclear inspectors on Sunday in an attempt to allay their suspicions of a covert Iranian weapons programme, the first such discussions in more than three ...

  • Iran’s preemptive energy strike against the EU

    Infowars.com

    A Russian news network says Iran can react to the European Union’s new sanctions on its oil sector by stopping oil exports to EU member states. ...

  • Iraq sectarian war flares as funeral bomb kills 29

    Independent.ie

    Iraq is in the grips of sectarian conflict. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the capital's predominately Shia district of Zafraniya, which also wounded more than ...

  • CP World Report: Barack Obama State of the Union, EU and U.S, Four Congregants Missing in Iran

    Christian Post

    As expected, Obama's State of the Union address last night focused on the economy. He said…. no challenge is more urgent. Obama referred to the growth of U.S. auto manufacturing and ...

  • First anniversary of Egypt's uprising

    The Seattle Times

    Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Tens of thousands of Egyptians ...

  • RCO Signs Agreement to Build Bahrain Teachers Institute in Somalia

    Bahrain News Agency

    London, Jan. 27. (BNA) - Upon directives from His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Charity Organisation (RCO) Shaikh ...

  • Oil price rises above $111 on Iran exports threat

    Arabian Business

    Brent crude rose above $111 on Friday as comments from Iran that it might stop exports to the European Union intensified worries about security of supply, while positive economic data from the ...

  • Iran could ban EU oil exports next week - lawmaker

    The Star

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - A law to be debated in Iran's parliament on Sunday could halt exports of oil to the European Union as early as next week, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a lawmaker ...

  • RT caught in Syria protest: Rebel fighters control Saqba

    RT

    Ankhar Kochneva, writer and sole foreign journalist permanently living in Syria, tells RT what is really up in the country, who funds the opposition, how international media fake images of unrest ...

  • Israel toddler chews head off snake

    Canada.com

    Coluber nummifer or Hemorrhois nummifer in Ein Kerem a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, Israel. A toddler in a town in northern Israel chewed the head off a 30-centimetre variety of this ...

  • Cairo's Tahrir Square sees thousands push for change

    Canada.com

    Egyptian protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand democratic change at Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on January 27, 2012, a year after a popular uprising. Thousands gathering in ...

  • Iran Oil Curbs Extend to 95% of Tankers in EU Insurance Rules

    Business Week

    Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European Union sanctions on Iranian oil will extend to about 95 percent of tankers because they are insured under rules governed by European ...

  • Speaker: Game-playing drives Middle East

    Yahoo

    TUPELO - A Tupelo native who has joint citizenship with the United States and Israel brought a snapshot of Middle Eastern politics to Tupelo on Thursday.Ron Baker, the executive administrator of Bat ...

  • Activists report ‘terrifying massacre’ in Syria

    IOL

    A ';terrifying massacre'; in the restive Syrian city of Homs has killed more than 30 people, including small children, in a barrage of mortar fire and attacks by armed forces loyal to ...

  • Suicide bomber kills 32 at Iraq funeral procession

    San Francisco Chronicle

    People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Zafaraniyah, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern ...

  • An Intimate Look at Egypt's Youth in Ongoing Revolution

    Wired News

    Ed Ou’s work. At age 25, he has made some of the most impactful photos of the revolutions in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. His photography has helped translate the ongoing uprisings ...

  • Egypt bars Americans working for democracy group

    San Francisco Chronicle

    FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2009 handout file photo proved by the Transportation Department, Sam Lahood, left, watches as his father Ray is sworn in as Transportation Secretary, at the Transportation ...

  • Iran's president says sanctions will hurt citizens

    San Francisco Chronicle

    FILE - In this Oct. 29,. 2011file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he delivers a speech during a meeting with guests of The Press Union of the Islamic World, at the ...

  • Syria violence as crackdown continues

    The Daily Telegraph

    SYRIAN forces yesterday stepped up their deadly crackdown on dissent, with activists reporting almost 100 dead in two days, as violence spiked ahead of a bid to condemn Damascus at the UN Security ...

  • Israel calls for tougher sanctions on Iran - video

    The Guardian

    Ehud Barak, Israel's deputy prime minister and defence minister, warns that Tehran's nuclear programme could lead to weapons proliferation, the spread of terrorism and a threat to oil ...

  • 10s of 1000s hold anniversary protests in Egypt, demanding early handover of power by military

    Sun-Sentinel

    Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of the popular uprising that unseated President Hosni Mubarak for in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Tens of thousands of ...

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