Jordan felt the eclectic beat with STOMP the world reknowned musical show

albawaba - Monday 20th May, 2013

STOMP steps into Jordan (photo from STOMP Facebook page) The individuality and personality of the world-renowned STOMP groupEUR(TM)s members shone through their rehearsals of the choreographed percussion show ahead of their three-day performance at Amman's Palace of Culture.The British show has travelled around the world for over twenty years, with the 12 performers using brooms, lids, ...

Sudan The Road of Qustul - Halfa ... a Communication Gate Between Sudan and Egypt

All Africa - Monday 20th May, 2013

Inaugurating the Qustul- Adendan- Wadi halfa land-road with a length of 350 Km between Sudan and Egypt. It is described by many officials as a main gate to jumpstart the economical and commercial relations between Sudan and Egypt. The new road will reduce the cost of goods transport by 80% percentage and reactivate the signed agreements between the two states. Sudan had already welcomed ...

Explosion rocks southern Afghan town causing casualties

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

KABUL, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- A blast rocked Qalat city, the provincial capital of southern Afghan province of Zabul Saturday morning, leaving casualties, local media Tolo News ...

UN refugee agency prepares to aid Syrian refugees during winter

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR) said that it is budgeting more than 64 million U.S. dollars for winter preparations for Syrian refugees in neighboring countries and internally displaced Syrians, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said on Friday. UNHCR statistics showed that the total number of Syrian refugees registered or awaiting registration in Jordan, Lebanon, ...

Syria-Turkey conflict to benefit West Iranian lawmaker

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

A senior Iranian lawmaker said Friday that military conflict between Syria and Turkey will drag the two countries into a war that will only benefit the West, Press TV reported. Hossein Sobhaninia, a member of Iran's Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said Western countries have failed in their efforts to change the Syrian government and now seek to ...

Lebanese president opposes military intervention in Syria

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

BEIRUT, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Friday that Lebanon objects to any military intervention in Syria. "A military intervention in Syria is not an acceptable move. We would not back a military intervention. But if a political solution requiring Arab support is proposed, then it would become possible for Lebanon to take part in it," Suleiman said in an ...

UN-Arab special envoy meets Saudi King on Syrian crisis

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- UN-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday met with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz Al Saud in Red Sea city of Jeddah and called for a political solution to the crisis in Syria, a UN spokesman told reporters here. Brahimi told the King that Syria's deplorable situation would not be resolved through military means, ...

Mortar shell slams building at Palestinian camp in Syrian capital injuring many

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

DAMASCUS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- A mortar shell slammed Friday evening into a residential bloc at a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, leaving destruction scenes and an undisclosed number of injured people, witnesses said. The shell struck the Ein al-Ghazal street in al-Yarmouk camp in Damascus, witnesses said, adding that a residential bloc was destroyed and many people were ...

Iranian lawmakers ask Turkey not to follow Wests path on Syria

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- As the tensions between Syria and Turkey escalated, Iranian lawmakers and a senior cleric on Friday called on Turks to refrain from what they called following the Western path of antagonism with Syria. Turkey is still putting pressure on Syria by authorizing the government to launch cross-border military operations and reinforcing military buildup in border region ...

Turkey deploys 250 tanks 55 jets on border with Syria

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Turkey bolstered military presence on the border with Syria by deploying 250 tanks and 55 jets of various models on Friday after a Syrian military helicopter bombed the Syrian border town of Azmarin. Local English daily Today's Zaman reported that the tanks were deployed in the provinces of Sanliurfa and Mardin after the government ordered the military's readiness for a possible clash ...

Turkey follows West to weaken Syria Iranian cleric

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Tehran's interim Friday prayer leader, Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, said Friday that Turkey is following the West to weaken the "anti-Israel state" of Syria, Press TV reported. Referring to the border tensions between Turkey and Syria, Seddiqi said, "Such moves show that Turkey is following a Western and NATO plan to weaken or destroy an anti-Zionist and anti- American Muslim ...

Syrian plane fuels tensions between Ankara Damascus

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

ANKARA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The landing of a Syrian plane accused of carrying "ammunition" mounted tensions between Ankara and Damascus as Turkey scrambled Friday fighter jets after a Syrian helicopter approached its border. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the Syrian passenger plane, which was forced to land in Esenboga Airport in the Turkish capital of ...

UNHCR steps up efforts to prepare for winter for displaced Syrians

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

GENEVA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- With Syrian refugee numbers still rising in neighboring countries, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is budgeting more than 64 million U.S. dollars for winter preparations for refugees and internally displaced Syrians, a spokesperson said Friday. UNHCR statistics showed that the total number of Syrian refugees registered or pending registration in Jordan, ...

U.S. seeking to use neighboring countries against Syria Iranian lawmaker

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- A senior Iranian lawmaker said that the United States is seeking to use neighboring states against crisis-stricken Syria, Press TV reported on Friday. The United States sees military intervention as the only solution to the Syrian crisis and wants Turkey to be involved in the American war game, said Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, spokesman of Iran Majlis (parliament) ...

Poll Romney leads Obama in Florida by 7 points

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mitt Romney has opened up a 7-point lead over President Barack Obama in Florida--yet more proof that last week's presidential debate may have been a game changer for the Republican nominee's campaign. A new Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll found Romney leading Obama 51 percent to 44 percent among likely Florida voters. That's a major shift from last month when the two ...

Israeli PM pays visit to high-tech barrier with Egypt

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets a bird's-eye view of the just-completed 240-kilometer high-tech barrier with Egypt on Oct. 11, 2012. (Xinhua/GPO/Mishe ...

Two foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Two foreigners, presumably citizens of the U.S. and Canada, were kidnapped on Thursday in the southern Afghan province of Ghazni. This is reported by local authorities. Two foreigners - a man and a woman traveling by car from the province of Ghazni to Kabul, were stopped on the highway and seized by Taliban. The Taliban field commander, whose group operates in the area, confirmed the ...

Russian arms exporters deny sending weapons to Syria

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian arms exporter on Friday denied sending weapons to Damascus via a Syrian passenger plane which was forced to land in the Turkish capital of Ankara. Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport said it supplied military-purpose products "in strict accordance with the international legal regulations and the Russian legislation," Rosoboronexport press officer ...

Turkey extends mandate for military operations in Iraq

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Sina English Turkey's parliament on Thursday night extended for one year the mandate of the government to conduct military operations in neighboring northern Iraq against militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party based there. The same day, the Turkish Air Force carried out a massive strike on separatists based in the Zap district on adjacent territory. The Turkish army periodically ...

Hezbollah admits to Israel drone

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Sina English The leader of Lebanese Shia militant movement Hezbollah has said that his group was behind the launch of a drone shot down over Israel last week. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told the movement's al-Manar television network that the drone was made in Iran and had flown over "sensitive sites" in Israel. Israeli fighter planes shot down the drone north of the Negev desert ...

Blast in Damascus 2 injured

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Sina English Two people were injured in a "terrorist-masterminded blast" in the west of Damascus. This information was reported by the Syrian TV channel "Surya." "The land mine exploded near the Ministry of Higher Education. As a result, two people were injured," says the report. Since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in March 2011, which claimed, according ...

Putin to visit Turkey on the heels of plane interception

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Turkey December 3, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. He said Putin and he had reached an agreement on the visit in the course of a telephone conversation some four days ago and the two countries' diplomatic services had named December 3 as a possible date. He said this was not linked in any way to the incident ...