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With youth pounding at kingdoms gates Saudi Arabia begins religious police reform
Saudi Arabia's religious police force is infamous for patrolling streets and shopping malls to enforce Islamic conduct. With an eye to restless youth, the kingdom's aging king has ordered ...
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Emirates increases Flights to Colombo from June 30
WAM DUBAI, 23 May, 2013 -- Emirates, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from next month with the addition of three more flights per week. The addition of three more services, which will operate between Dubai and Colombo on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays, will increase the number of flights between the two cities to four each day on those days, and take the total number of ...
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Garagsh chairs UAE delegation to ALs extraordinary meet on Syria
WAM Cairo, 23rd May 2013 (WAM) -- Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, led today the UAE delegation to the Arab League extraordinary meeting on Syria. Chaired by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber, the meeting took stock of the latest developments in Syria and discussed measures that should be taken to address the ...
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Lubna opens Mrajeeb Al Fhood camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan
WAM Amman, 23rd May 2013 (WAM) -- UAE Minister of Development and International Cooperation Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi described the condition of the Syrian refugees as a complex humanitarian crisis, calling for concerted efforts from the international community and its active humanitarian organisations to alleviate their sufferings. ''The UAE humanitarian message is to ...
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4th Intl Conference of Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism
The 4th International Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism Jerusalem 28-30 May 2013 For complete conference package: http://bit.ly/197Onvs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs are holding the 4th International Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism on 28-30 May 2013. The delegates are convening to ...
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Whats Behind the Drop in Syrian Refugees to Jordan
A Syrian refugee woman carrying her son is reflected a puddle of rain water as she stands outside her tent after heavy rain at al-Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the Syrian border, January 10, ...
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Shiites urged to end Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria
Former lebanese Prime Minister and current leader of the Future Movement parliamentary bloc MP Fouad Siniora contacted on Thursday several Shiite religious and political figures as part of efforts to put an end to Hezbollah’s "dangerous" involvement in Syria Civil war ...
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Fifa World Cup-themed mall for Qatar attracts retailers
A Fifa World-Cup themed shopping mall in Doha has attracted an "extreme" amount of interest from the region's biggest retailers, more than two years ahead of its scheduled opening. Mall of Qatar, a 162,000 square metre mall located in Doha next to a future venue for the 2022 World Cup, is due to open in September 2015. The cost of the project is estimated at 3 billion Qatari ...
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Bahrain opposition boycotts talks with government
DUBAI // Bahrain's main opposition group has suspended its participation in reconciliation talks with the government for two weeks, blaming the slow pace of negotiations and a raid last week on a top Shiite leader's home. Little progress has been achieved in the talks, which began in February as part of efforts to end two years of political deadlock following pro-reform protests by ...
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Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq
BAGHDAD -; Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody ...
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Iran Refutes Statements of Bahrain Government
Tehran, May 23 (Prensa Latina) An Iranian official spokesman today refuted allegations by a Bahrain official claiming that a Persian drone violated the airspace of the kingdom of the Arabian peninsula. The Foreign Ministry of Iran advised the Bahraini government to respect the legitimate rights of its people instead of raising baseless arguments, stated the spokesman, according to IRNA. The ...
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Community Clashes in Northern Lebanon Worsening
Beirut, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The increase in the fighting and violence in the northern city of Tripoli are threatening Lebanon''s stability, with fears today that the conflict will extend to the capital. Six more victims of armed clashes between Sunni and Alawites were reported last night after fighting extended to the center of the port city and other districts, with 150 injured, ...
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Amnesty Both Israel Hamas guilty of war crimes
Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law during Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza in November of last year, Amnesty International concluded in a report released on ...
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Yemen - At least three journalists abducted in Yemen
At least three journalists have been held hostage by armed tribesmen for a week in Yemen, according to news reports.The journalists--Yassin Alzikri, editor-in-chief ...
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Al Dhahrani Congratulates His Yemeni Counterpart On Yemens National Day
Manama, May 23 (BNA)-- Representatives Council Speaker Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Dhahrani sent a congratulatory cable to his Yemeni counterpart Yahia bin Ali Al Raei on Yemen's National Day. He expressed to him heartfelt congratulations, wishing Yemen more progress and prosperity under its wise leadership. A O Q BNA 1542 GMT ...
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Iran denies its drone violated Bahrains airspace
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran denied on Thursday that one of its drones had violated the airspace of Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, Iranian media reported. Bahrain's Information Minister Samira Rajab told Reuters on Thursday that an unmanned spy drone was found in the Gulf waters between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The incident could further inflame tensions between the two ...
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‘There was no Muslim terrorism in the UK until Iraq’ – Oxford imam
War British Muslims "disown" the Woolwich murderers, and such extremists should be "totally demolished" in UK society - but in order to do that, the UK must change its "illegal" foreign policy, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation Dr. Taj Hargey told ...
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Israel is fighting a regional war in Syria
The changing internal situation in Syria is putting a new set of plans into motion, which involve Israeli aggression against Syria. Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start asserting leverage against Syria in place of the weakening anti-government ...
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Kerry vs. ‘Middle East’s Hysterical Hypochondriacs’
Haaretz blogger Chemi Shalev makes sense, but I draw a different conclusion. With vested interests against peace on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict why is Kerry wasting the jet fuel talking to ...
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Kerry admits his push for Middle East peace faces scepticism
John Kerry admitted there was scepticism and cynicism about his efforts to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as he began his fourth visit to ...
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Kerry Embarks on Meetings with Israeli and Palestinian Officials
JERUSALEM -- As he embarked on another round of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday in an effort to revitalize the peace process, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged the doubts being expressed on both sides over his chances of ...
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Egypt plans to issue sukuk in early 2014
By Abhinav Ramnarayan Thu May 23, 2013 11:58am EDT LONDON, May 23 (IFR) - Egypt aims to issue a sukuk to international and domestic markets at the beginning of 2014, the country said in its new USD12bn euro medium term note programme. The Arab nation, rated Caa1/CCC+/B, wants to use Islamic bonds as a diversification tool to broaden the investor base and has been "targeting financing ...
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Head of Arab League Nabil el-Araby announced the names to represent Assad regime at International Syria Confer…
Head of Arab League Nabil el-Araby announced the names to represent Assad regime at International Syria Conference CAIRO - Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil el-Araby announced the names of the attendees to represent the Assad regime at the International Syria Conference to be held at the end of May.Nabil el-Araby held a press conference in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and stated that ...
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Libyans in North Africa scared to return home
Thousands of Libyans have fled to Egypt for fear of being after prosecuted for supporting or fighting for Gathafi, but life in Egypt is far from ...
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Renewable energy drive gains pace in Morocco Africa largest wind farm to open in 2014
Morocco is ploughing ahead with a programme to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where Africa's largest wind farm is set to open in ...
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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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