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Thirteen killed 10 police kidnapped in Iraq violence
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian ...
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Irans Destabilizing Activities in The Middle East Under Scrutiny
making headlines around the world, Iran is also prominent for its destabilizing activities in the Middle East, according to the United States in America. In her written testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Under Secretary Wendy Sherman says Iran is the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, which it uses as a strategic tool of its foreign policy. Beyond its ...
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Syrias Assad says he wont step down before election raising new questions about diplomacy
This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows black smoke rising from what rebels say is a helicopter that was shot down at Abu Dhour military airbase which is besieged by the rebels, in the northern province city of Idlib, Syria, Friday May 17, 2013. Rights activists have found torture devices ...
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AP PHOTOS Palestinians in Egypt village exhibit consequences of 65 years of mass displacement
In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo, Palestinian refugee Sulaiman al-Namodi, 92, sits outside of his house in Gezirat al-Fadel village, Sharqiya, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat al-Fadel say they have it ...
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Engel Cant think of a more complicated situation than Syria
In "Office Politics," NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel shares his thoughts on Syria. After spending years in the region, Richard assesses whether or not there are any options for the United States to pursue in the precarious setting. He situates the diplomatic standing of the United States in the context of ...
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Abu Dhabi Statistics Conference 2013 draws 550 participants
ABU DHABI - Held under the patronage of Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed National Security Advisor and Vice Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, the first edition of the Abu Dhabi Statistics Conference 2013 opens today bringing together 550 participants and 18 ...
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Amos Gilad S-300 can reach Hezbollah via Syria
The advanced S-300 Russian air defense system, which Moscow has pledged to deliver to Syria, could reach Hezbollah and beyond, a senior defense official warned on Saturday.Amos Gilad, head of the security-diplomatic branch of the Defense Ministry, told Channel 2, "These weapons are dangerous. If Hezbollah and Iran support Syria, why shouldn't they [the Syrians] transfer these ...
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Bahrain Slams Irresponsible Iranian Statements
Manama-May-18(BNA)The Kingdom of Bahrain today strongly condemned the statements made by Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussain Amir Abdullahyan. The Foreign Ministry slammed the irresponsible statements, being a flagrant interference in Bahrain's internal affairs, an unprecedented behavior in relations bonding states and an awkward demeanor in regional and ...
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Bahrain To Host Gulf Medical Management Forum
Manama-May-18(BNA)The Kingdom of Bahrain will host the 1st Gulf Medical Management on June 4-6 at InterContinental Regency Hotel. Bahrain Medical Society and Act smart Public Relations Consultancy will organize the symposium under the patronage of Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi. BMS Chairperson Dr. Maha Al-Muqla said that preparations for the upcoming symposium had already been ...
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Attacks kill 16 people in Iraq 8 policemen kidnapped on road to Syrian Jordanian border
Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013. A bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqouba comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left tens of people dead. Attacks against Sunni mosques ...
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ADIBF 2013 Abu Dhabi Crown Prince helps students invest in books
ABU DHABI - His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), offered a grant worth Dhs3m to encourage students to purchase books during the 23rd Abu Dhabi International Book Fair ...
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Drone strikes kill suspected Al-Qaida militants in Yemen
An apparent US drone attack has killed four suspected Al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen and destroyed an explosives-packed truck, tribal sources said on Saturday. They occurred on Friday night in Al-Mahfad region in Abyan province, the sources said. The truck was carrying grenades and explosive belts, and the attack destroyed the weapons and killed the vehicle's four occupants, ...
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UAE not affected by southern Iran quake
WAM ABU DHABI: The UAE was not affected by the earthquake of 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, which hit southern Iran, 207 km northeast of Ras Al Khaimah, this afternoon, the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) has reported. Measuring 3 on the Mercalli intensity scale, the quake occurred at 2.03pm at a depth of 29km, it said. ...
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Palestinian activists sue Israel for the return of 6000 books
Anahid Melikian, left, and her niece Anahid Melikian Helewa have tried to find out about their family's books from the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa. Marianne Helm for The ...
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Iraq 10 policemen kidnapped west of Baghdad amid clashes
Suspected Sunni militants abducted the 10 policemen on a desert road near Ramadi, one of the main centers of the Sunni protest movement in ...
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Why a Middle East role is essential for the nuclear nonproliferation regime
CAMBRIDGE --The meeting of the preparatory committee (PrepCom) for the2015 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conferencepredictably ended in failure to lay the ground for the event earlier this month. The core reason was the inability to convene a meeting in Helsinki last December on the establishment of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (WMDFZ) in ...
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Gaza tunnel collapse kills Palestinian
A smuggler carries food from Kentucky Fried Chicken to be delivered through an underground tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, on May 13, 2013 in Rafah. AFP ...
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Syria’s Assad Says Peace Talks Likely to Fail
Syria , in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from peace talks planned for next month, and to back away from earlier statements by Syrian officials that the government was willing to negotiate with its armed ...
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Protestors and police clash in Turkey-Syria border town
Protestors have clashed with police in Reyhanli during an anti-government demonstration following the deadly twin car bombings which struck the Turkish town bordering Syria. Hundreds marched to protest against the government who they say did not do enough to prevent the attacks that killed over fifty people last ...
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Struggle Against Dire Conditions for Iran Workers
On April 29, just ahead of International Workers' Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to care for his ailing son, who suffers from a ...
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Gunmen kill anti-terror policeman and family as Iraq violence continues
a wave of violence continued to grip the country . Attackers also shot dead a Sunni cleric in the Shiite-majority south.The attacks follow three days of bombings and other violence that killed 130 people, targeting a market, a mosque and bus stops in both Shiite and Sunni areas in scenes reminiscent of retaliatory attacks between the two groups that pushed the country to the brink of civil war ...
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Chloe Johnson death Family of five-year-old British girl who died in a pool at in Egypts Sharm el-Sheikh resort angry that more wasnt done to save her
Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in south east London, died in a waterpark at the Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Friday.Speaking to Sky News, her grandmother April Johnson claimed that her son and two holidaymakers had tried to resuscitate her.She said lifeguards had not been on hand and also claimed that an ambulance had taken four hours to ...
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Francis Meets with President Michel Sleiman of Lebanon
Importance of Dialogue, Humanitarian Assistance for Syrian Refugees Among Topics DiscussedBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, May 03, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis received President Michel Sleiman of Lebanon in audience today at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. The Lebanese President also met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State who was accompanied by the secretary for ...
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Opposition groups protest proposed law regulating NGOs in Egypt
Egypt's opposition parties and human rights groups say a proposed bill requiring NGOs to be vetted and receive special permissions by the government would restrict their ...
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Emirates to delay modifications because of late A380s delivery
The UAE's stock markets are among the world's best performing this year, as banks resume lending, property deals sell out, and seasoned institutional investors scour the Emirates for ...
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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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