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Egypt in talks with Qatar Iraq over energy imports
Egyptian oil minister Sherif Haddara has said negotiations with Qatar over a gas swap deal and Iraq over oil imports are ongoing and will "soon" be finalised, Ahram has reported. "Communications are open with them," Haddara said. "These are big deals and need time. Soon we will hear that they are ...
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Over 1 lakh Indians face arrest in Saudi Arabia
naturalisation law or Nitaqat, which seeks to replace foreigners in companies with its own people, India is in the midst of a gigantic effort to bring back over 75,000 people in the next few months. After having failed to regularise their work status, these people have applied for emergency exit certificates to leave the country by July 3, the deadline set by Saudi Arabia for deportation of ...
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Syria’s opposition says may take part in Geneva conference
ANKARA, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - National Coalition for Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces is ready to take part in the Geneva-2 talks on resolving the conflict in Syria but it puts forward certain conditions, Haled Hojja, a representative of the coalitions participating in a conference of irreconcilable oppositionists in Istanbul ...
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Over 2500 refugees from Qusair arrive in Lebanon
United Nations refugee agency could, however, provide some details about the new arrivals. According to its weekly update, more than half of the Qusair refugees arrived with neither legal documentation nor belongings, and many reported they had had to flee to different cities ...
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Kenya Egypt rebuilds its Energy sector after Turmoil
Egypt . "Coming on the heels of Cabinet-level approval for the project, the concession agreement between Mashreq and the Port Said Port Authority clears the way for the fast-tracking of this critical project, which stands as a backup to Egypt's national energy security," said Mashreq Petroleum Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Tamer Abubakr. Mashreq Petroleum is a core platform ...
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Syrian refugees in Jordan unmoved by peace bid
A Syrian woman buys supplies from a make-shift store, at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan, Monday, April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad ...
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U.S. spy servers found in Syria spark queries
BEIRUT: Reporters Without Borders is calling for explanations from a Californian Web security company after a hacktivist group discovered 34 of its servers were being used by the Syrian government, potentially to spy on Internet users. The Blue Coat servers use Deep Packet Inspection technology "to analyze and control the activities of Syrian Internet users – censuring websites, ...
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Regime likely to succeed in bid to take Qusair secure vital corridor
Aleppo last summer." Opposition activist Hadi Abdullah, from Qusair, said rebels repelled a government advance in the town’s outskirts Thursday while George Sabra, the acting head of the National Coalition, urged fighters to "rush to the rescue" of the town. However, analysts say that due to their superior military capacity and manpower, it is likely President Bashar ...
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Bahrainis protest over raid on ayatollah’s home
Bahraini women hold pictures of Bahraini senior Shiite cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem during a protest against the regime and to show solidarity with the cleric in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on May 17, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ...
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Ahead of hajj WHO to help virus-hit Riyadh
Saudi Arabia dig deeper into deadly outbreaks of a new SARS-like virus to draw up advice ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, which attracts millions of Muslims. The U.N. agency, which is not currently recommending any restrictions on travel to the kingdom or screening of passengers at airports or entry points, will send a second team of experts in the coming weeks, WHO ...
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Iran stacks presidential candidate list with safe Khamenei men
FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, ...
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U.S. casts doubt on credibility of Iran’s upcoming election
United States Friday called into question the credibility of Iran’s presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and ...
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Bahrain Condemns Crime That Claimed Life of British Soldier in London
Manama, May 24 (BNA)--Bahrain strongly condemned the crime which claimed the life of a British soldier in London, the UK, yesterday. Meanwhile, it expressed full support to the British government in confronting terrorism. The Foreign Ministry stressed in a statement Bahrain's call to prevent the extremists and terrorists from using the land of any country to receive funding and exploit ...
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Seychelles and Emirates work together to assure sustainable hotel development
Ministers Pierre Laporte (Finance, Trade & Investment), Rolph Payet (Environment & Energy), Alain St.Ange (Tourism & Culture), and Christian Lionnet (Land Use & Habitat) met this morning with Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and CEO of Emirates Airline and Group & Vice President of Dubai, and his Emirates delegation Mr. Timothy Clark, the President of Emirates, and ...
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Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests
Ahmed Jawabreh, 14, was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank refugee camp where he lives and wasn't released for another 18 days. His was only one of a recent wave of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities, human rights groups ...
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Bahrains Rights Britains Failure
, claimed that "so-called human rights organisations" are "largely administered by ex-ideologists and even terrorists". It continued: "As much as beasts cannot be left to roam freely, so in human society the feral element’s freedom should be under control." In fact, it is well documented ...
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Syria opposition seeks to unify as talks get...
Demonstrators shout slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul on Friday. ...
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UNHCR Keep Borders Open to Fleeing Syrians
GENEVA -- The United Nations refugee agency is appealing to nations to keep borders open to refugees fleeing worsening violence in Syria. With Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq already hosting more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warns the number is expected to grow as the conflict intensifies. Responding to reports that Syrians ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees to peace talks but skepticism persists on both sides
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (MURAD ...
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LeBron James Will Eventually Top Michael Jordan As Basketballs Greatest Player
Although there will be resistance, LeBron James will ultimately be seen as the greatest basketball player of all time, surpassing Michael Jordan. And it shouldn't really be close. It seems like an appropriate time to examine the comparison as James, 28 and finishing his 10th NBA season, is essentially halfway through his career barring injury. Worth noting is that it's also a career ...
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Israeli-Palestinian problem at base troubles in Middle East says Jerusalem Patriarch
"There is no doubt that the Palestinian problem is the focus of all conflict in the Middle East for the last one hundred years. This is the truth that we cannot circumvent," said Latin-rite Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem. Speaking at a conference in Beirut on Christians in the Middle East, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Patriarch said that the Israeli-Palestinian ...
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High Court Government didnt handle Iraq abuse case adequately
The British government's handling of allegations that British troops abused and killed Iraqi civilians was inadequate, a court ruled. Britain's High Court ruled that the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, an investigative team set up by the Ministry of Defense, did not fulfill the United Kingdom's human rights obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, the BBC ...
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Soldier shortage Israel’s Army ‘half as big as it was 30 years ago’
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s military has reported a manpower shortage. Officials said the military, particularly the Army, was facing a growing gap in manpower requirements. They attributed the gap to a decreasing pool of conscripts as well as cuts in the defense ...
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Syrian rebel groups plan to attack Hizbollah in Lebanon
ISTANBUL // Syrian rebels are planning to attack Hizbollah in its Lebanese strongholds, in response to the Shiite militant group's growing combat role on the side of President Bashar Al Assad in the Syria conflict. Such attacks would mark a significant escalation and spread of what is fast developing into a highly sectarian, regional war. "It is really a question of when, not if, ...
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Israel in reassessment thinks Syria’s Bashar Assad will last awhile
JERUSALEM - Israel has reversed its assessment about the staying power of Syrian President Bashar Assad and now thinks he’ll remain in control of at least part of his country for some time to come – a conclusion that makes it likely, a growing number of officials think, that an escalation of violence between the two countries may be inevitable. Israeli defense officials said that ...
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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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