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Tensions over Syria trigger clashes in Tripoli
Lebanese soldiers have been patrolling an area of Tripoli after the deaths of at least three people in more clashes between Alawite and Sunni communities in the city. The fighting over two days has also left forty or so wounded. The violence appears to have been triggered by the ongoing conflict in neighbouring Syria, in particular the current Syrian army assault on the rebel-led town of ...
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Russia Assad foes must come to Syria meeting without conditions
Russia (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday it is crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for ...
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30 women teachers demonstrate in Saudi Arabia demanding full time jobs benefits
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - About 30 Saudi women teachers have demonstrated outside the kingdom's Education Ministry, demanding full time jobs. An Associated Press reporter saw women holding posters Monday calling for full time contracts and benefits that include steady pay and retirement packages. Some say they have been teaching part time in government schools for more than 10 years. The ...
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Five dead in bungled Israel bank raid
An Israeli woman is taken out of a bank in the town of Beersheba, southern Israel, on Monday after an attempted robbery in which at least five people were ...
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Iran hangs spies it says worked for US Israel
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media in early May as he registered his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election in Tehran, Iran. On Sunday, Iran hung two convicted spies, ahead of the June 14 presidential election. ...
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Syrian troops Hezbollah push deeper into strategic town
In this May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens — which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting — shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair town in Syria. (Via ...
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Wave of Attacks Kills Scores in Iraq
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SP lowers Jordan sovereign credit rating to BB-minus from BB
NEW YORK | Mon May 20, 2013 12:00pm EDT NEW YORK May 20 (Reuters) - Rating agency Standard & Poor's on Monday lowered Jordan's sovereign credit rating to BB-minus from BB. (Reporting by Caryn Trokie and Pam Niimi; writing by Luciana Lopez; Editing by Chizu ...
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Barbra Streisand to receive honorary PhD in Israel
JERUSALEM -; A leading Israeli university says it will present singer Barbra Streisand with an honorary Ph.D. when she visits Israel next ...
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The Problem with Partition Human Rights Provide an Alternative for Israel and the Palestinians
"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is ...
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Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah of Egypt convened a seminar on the The economic crisis of Egypt its roots causes and solution
On Saturday 1st Rajab 1434 (11/05/13) Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah of Egypt convened an economic seminar in the premises of the 'Lawyers Association' under the title: 'The economic crisis of Egypt, the roots, causes and the ...
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Gold-plated Riyadh metro system to be built on orders from Saudi King
For, while London Underground passengers face poky platforms not really designed for the millions of users they encounter every day, where the only decoration are endless advertising billboards - a new state-of-the art, ultra-luxurious underground system is being built in Saudi Arabia.With its gold-plated walls, space-age designs, huge marble walkways and a sophisticated passenger flow system ...
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Scores die in wave of Iraq bombs
Iraq 's minority Sunnis began protesting at what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.Iraq's Shiite majority, which was oppressed ...
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Qatar sets up $1b fund for investment in infrastructure
Three Qatari state-backed entities, including the Gulf nation's acquisitive sovereign wealth fund, are setting up a $1 billion fund to invest in overseas energy infrastructure assets.The new fund will be run by Qatar Holding, Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), a bourse filing from QEWC said on Monday.Qatar, with one of the highest per capita ...
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Official Israeli-Palestinian Talks to Resume Soon
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Secretary of State John Kerry plans to return to Israel in two weeks to keep the momentum up for restarting peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. According to one Israeli official quoted ...
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‘Syrian conflict is a war targeting Iran’
Syria The rise of sectarian violence and recent Israeli bombing indicate that the true aim of the Syrian civil war is to weaken Iran's position in the region, Middle East expert Tariq Ali said in an interview with RT. Hezbollah militants are fighting beside Syrian governmental troops to retake the strategic town of Qusair from the rebels. It's considered a key weapons smuggling ...
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Car bombs target Shiites in Iraq killing more than 60
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, part of the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops pulled out in December ...
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Israel calls off UNESCO Jerusalem tour blaming Palestinians
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it had canceled a visit by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to Jerusalem's Old City, saying the Palestinians had sought to politicize a conservation ...
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Hezbollah suffers heavy losses fighting inside Syria
BEIRUT In what may be a first for the Syrian civil war, numerous reports claim Hezbollah suffered heavy losses aggressively fighting alongside the Assad regime's forces in a major battle outside of their home country of Lebanon. It is no secret the Lebanese militant group -- labeled terrorists by many in the West -- has been a strong backer of President Bashar Assad, along with Iran. They ...
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Jordan PM says Arab Spring forced governments to widen press freedoms
AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's prime minister says the Arab Spring has forced governments in the region to allow more freedom of expression and of the press. Abdullah Ensour said at a meeting of the Geneva-based International Press Institute on Monday that Jordan has "come a long way" in improving both legislation governing press freedoms and the standards of a national media still ...
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Atrocity in Syria Entire families massacred
Damage is seen in what appears to be a chicken farm following an air strike near Damascus May 5, 2013, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency. Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night ...
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Qatar emir laments international failure over Syria
DOHA - The emir of Qatar, a strong supporter of the Syrian rebels, on Monday slammed what he called inaction by the international community over the conflict there, lamenting the failure to reach a political ...
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Activists say 28 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town of Qusair has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant ...
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3 killed in fighting over Syria in north lebanon
Three people have been killed and about 40 wounded in two days of fighting in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, as sectarian violence spilled over from the civil war in ...
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Israel gunman shoots 4 dead at bank kills self
JERUSALEM -; A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police ...
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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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