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Iran’s Ahmadinejad to contest poll barring of his ally
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month’s presidential ...
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad says he’ll challenge ally’s ban from election
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a media conference on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 26, 2012. (BRENDAN ...
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Life in Jordans desert city
Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp is home to 170,000 people from Syria who have fled the fighting. While camps are the more visible part of the refugee crisis, the majority of refugees in Jordan live in towns and cities where they face different problems. Rents have tripled over the past six months as landlords cash in on the new demand for housing. Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang visited ...
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Iran Ahmadinejad to contest bar on ally
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit out at a decision to disqualify a close ally from a vote to elect his successor, while former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had no objections to his own omission. The conservative-dominated Guardians Council on Tuesday eliminated both Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie and Rafsanjani from a list of eight candidates for the June 14 poll, and those ...
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Diplomats Iran expands nuke technology
Herman Nackaerts, left, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, shakes hands with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. U.N. nuclear agency officials are meeting with Iranian counterparts in a renewed attempt ...
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Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price
Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price, said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, APA-Economics reports. ‘Armenia is using its leverage to get a low price for imported gas and is holding negotiations with Iran and our strategic ally Russia. We are holding high level political talks with Russia to find ways to lower or subsidize the price’, ...
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WEF on ME North Africa to open in Jordan
The three-day meeting, convening under the theme Advancing Conditions for Growth and Resilience, will focus on shaping the region's economic, social and governance systems of the future. The meeting will convene over 900 leaders from the Gulf region, the Levant, North Africa and internationally. Representatives of business, government, civil society, youth and media will come together to ...
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Syria’s Mekdad heads to Moscow
Geneva next month.European diplomatic sources said Tuesday the Syrian regime has put forward a list of five officials as potential negotiators in talks with the opposition.They said the list, provided to Moscow in early March, includes Prime ...
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Gaza-Egypt crossing at Rafah reopens witnesses
In this Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 file photograph, the Rafah border terminal between Egypt and Gaza, and the only gateway for Gaza's people, is closed and guarded by Egyptian border guards in Rafah, Egypt. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa, ...
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Damac emerges from Egypt tussle poorer but clean
with Egypt’s government, but at a significant cost, according to figures published by an Egyptian newspaper. Under the terms of the deal, Damac will pay an additional $20.77m to reclaim the right to construct its "Park Avenue" mall and commercial project on the Cairo-Alexandria road, while it will forfeit its stake in local developer, ‘Hyde Park Properties for Development ...
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Events industry on Middle East carbon footprint
Members of the professional sound and light industry tackled the issue of carbon footprint produced by events held in the Middle East. During a panel discussion at PALME Middle East 2013, experts looked at whether the massive amount of energy needed to put on everything from spectacular launch parties to concerts and shows can be justified. The event industry is a significant energy consumer ...
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World Bank pledges financial support to Jordan
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Image courtesy of The Telegraph On Tuesday, the World Bank announced that it will supply Jordan with "substantial funds" to help the country cope with the huge influx of Syrian refugees that it has been receiving since the start of the conflict.Since the onset of violence in ...
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Syrian rebels target Hezbollah fire rockets into Lebanon
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- The fighting in Syria has taken another dangerous turn, with rebel rockets targeting Hezbollah locations in Lebanon. Rebels battling for control of Qusayr, a strategically important western town in Syria, fired rockets Sunday across the Lebanese border at the militant group's areas, the rebel Free Syrian Army said. Hezbollah, the pro-regime and ...
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Iran Elections Key Players Barred From Race
Iran's President has said he will raise the decision to ban a close aid from standing in forthcoming elections with the country's Supreme Leader. Iran's Guardian Council announced an approved list of candidates for the June Presidential election - but the list did not include Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff. Also barred ...
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Bahrain MPs vote to ban pork in kingdom
Lawmakers in Bahrain have approved a change in legislation that would criminalise the sale, import, export, production and possession of all pork products, it was ...
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Hezbollah buries Syria fighters
A Lebanese activist holds a placard in which they replaced Hezbollahs logo with the word freedom", and its slogan of "Hezbollah shall be victorious" with the words, the people shall be victorious", during a Beirut protest against the participation of Hezbollah members in the fighting in the Syrian town of ...
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Baird Iraq could face civil war
Ottawa - A spate of deadly violence risks plunging Iraq into a sectarian civil war, Canada's top diplomat warned on Tuesday, adding that a Canadian was among the latest ...
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Iranian President hits out at decision to bar his close ally Mashaie from list of candidates for June 14 poll.
TEHRAN - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit out Wednesday at a decision to disqualify a close ally from a vote to elect his successor, while former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had no objections to his own ...
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Kuwait suspends executives over Dow Chemical payment
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's cabinet suspended on Thursday several senior oil executives over a $2.2 billion penalty paid to Dow Chemical for scrapping a joint venture and ordered a judicial investigation into the matter, an official statement ...
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Dubai successfully foils smuggling of 259 African ivory tusks
International Wildlife Fund for Animal Welfare says Dubai authorities discovered tusks in container shipped from Kenya and labelled as wooden ...
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In Iraq pointing a finger at others will not help says paper
WAM ABU DHABI: Pointing a finger at others will not help in Iraq as Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki says that it is a plot to destabilise the country and sow sectarian and ethnic discord, a local newspaper remarked today. "As far as objectivity is concerned, he is right," said the Khaleej Times in an editorial comment on the new trend of violence which is "a deja vu of 2006-07 ...
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6 killed 27 wounded in Lebanons Tripoli
WAM BEIRUT: Six people have been killed and 27 were wounded during clashes that erupted yesterday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Mortar bombs and various kinds of shells and weapons were used in the heavy fighting in the Jabal Mohsen area and the Bab al-Tabbaneh district, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported. The fighting in the Lebanese port city is fueled by ...
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Would-be suicide bomber killed in Yemens Aden
ADEN, Yemen, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Troops of the Yemeni anti- terrorism forces foiled a terror attack and shot dead a would-be suicide bomber on Sunday morning in the southern port city of Aden, a government official told Xinhua. The troops launched a storming campaign against an al-Qaida- held house in Aden's neighborhood of Mansoura, the local government official said on condition of ...
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Friends of Syria to press for peace talks
BACKERS of the Syrian uprising are set to meet in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the brutal two-year conflict escalates close to the border with Lebanon. "This meeting in Amman is to bring together all of the key players in the region as well as the key partners in Europe and the United States to talk about strategy," a senior US State Department official ...
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Irans Ahmadinejad denounces election decision
TEHRAN, Iran -; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from an upcoming presidential race is an act of "oppression" and he will take the case to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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