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Euro leagues could challenge Qatar 2022 in court
European football leagues could launch legal challenges if Qatar attempts to move the FIFA World Cup 2022 to winter, the head of Germany's top league has ...
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Friends of Syria warn Assad of repercussions of not committing to peace
US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague discuss Syria at the Friends of Syria meeting in Amman on Wednesday evening World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace but warned Thursday that if he fails to negotiate a political transition they would boost their backing of the opposition.The stark warning came from a meeting of ...
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Egypts 2011 jailbreaks still a mystery carry potential embarrassment for Islamist leader
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 28, 2010 file photo, relatives of the 26 suspected Hezbollah members, accused of plotting attacks on tourists and shipping in the Suez Canal and sending operatives and explosives to Gaza to help militant groups there, waves to prison vehicles carrying them outside Emergency State Security Court in New Cairo, Egypt. It was one of the most perplexing events of ...
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Saudi Arabia sees win-win in solar energy boom
A slide in solar power costs and a surge in oil prices over the last few years has made solar power a win-win strategy for Saudi Arabia: saving billions of dollars of crude for export while making electricity at less than half the ...
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Mauritanian women denounce violence rape
NOUAKCHOTT - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Mauritania on Wednesday to denounce violence against women and demand tighter security amid a spike in assaults and rape cases in the capital ...
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What is an Iranian drone doing in Bahrain near Saudi Arabia
DUBAI - Bahrain on Wednesday said it has found an Iranian drone in the kingdom's north near Saudi Arabia and called for increased cooperation between regional security services to face "threats" from ...
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S.Korea to take 1st Iran LPG cargoes in 7 months -sources
SEOUL | Thu May 23, 2013 3:08am EDT SEOUL May 23 (Reuters) - South Korea will receive a shipment of Iranian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for the first time since imports were halted last October due to European sanctions that made it difficult to get shipping insurance, sources said on Thursday. South Korean LPG importer E1 Corp bought 33,000 tonnes of propane and 11,000 tonnes of ...
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2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt
CAIRO -- It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.The prison breaks added to the chaos during the 18-day uprising in 2011, and the flood of criminals onto the streets ...
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Qatar Airs cargo unit adds three new planes
The new A330s have replaced three Airbus A300 freighters that the airline has phased out of the fleet to make way for the new state-of-the-art ...
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No political crisis in Kuwait claims speaker
The speaker of Kuwait's National Assembly insisted that there is no "political crisis" in the Gulf state, amid moves to question the oil and interior ministers in ...
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World Bank proposes $150m loan to Jordan
The World Bank has proposed a $150m loan for Jordan to help it with the cost of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, Jordanian and World Bank board sources said on ...
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No role for Assad post-conflict - Friends of Syria
President Bashar al-Assad will have no role to play in a peaceful Syria. That is according to the participants of a meeting Jordan of the Friends of Syria, a group of Western nations trying to broker a peace deal proposed by the US and Russia. It builds on last year’s stalled plan for a peaceful transition of power. ';In the event that the Assad regime is unwilling to negotiate ...
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Mall of Qatar project set for 2015 opening
Construction has started on Doha's QR3bn ($820m) Mall of Qatar, which will be the largest retail centre in the Gulf state when it is completed in September ...
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Six Ukrainians evacuated from Syria
"These individuals were evacuated via Lebanese territory, and subsequently flown to Ukraine on a regular Beirut-Kiev flight," the ministry said in a statement.Ukraine has evacuated more than 500 of its citizens from Syria since last July.Syria has been locked in a civil war since demonstrations broke out against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. According to UN ...
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Obama discusses Syria with senior Russian official
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in Syria.Dropping by a White House meeting between Patrushev and Thomas Donilon, his national security advisor, Obama discussed the need for a negotiated political settlement in Syria as well as the importance of ...
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Protest Against G4S Outside Israels Ofer Prison 22-5-2013
British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and "administrative detainees" held without charge or ...
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Behind Syria peace talks proposal US prepares regional war
While ostensibly touring the Middle East to discuss a joint US-Russian proposal for peace talks between the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad and Western-backed "rebels," Secretary of State John Kerry met with US allies to prepare for region-wide war.Stopping first in Oman, Kerry held talks with the ruling Sultan, one of the string of monarchical dictators that constitute, ...
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Iran blocks presidential campaign of pro-US candidate Rafsanjani
Iranian authorities announced Tuesday that the Islamic Republic's Guardian Council has approved eight candidates to contest the June 14 presidential elections. Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pro-US pillar of Iran's clerical-nationalist establishment and the country's president from 1989 to 1997, and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the political protg of current President Mahmoud ...
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Kerry Lebanon “at risk” of being swept up in Syrian civil war
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the United States was increasingly concerned that the escalating fighting in Syria might slip across the border withLebanon and destabilize that ...
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UN Nuclear Agency Says Iran Expanded Nuclear Activity
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has taken a significant step toward building a reactor that Western experts say could provide a second path to producing material for a nuclear ...
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Team Obama’s endless Syria bungling
Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region. In the third year of Syria’s bloody, grinding civil war, Assad remains in power, contrary to near-universal predictions in the West, and Moscow is still running rings around Washington.Obama ...
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Oman Air boosts fleet with three new A330-300
The aircraft will be operated on long haul routes Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has placed an order for three A330-300s, growing its A330 Family fleet to a total of ten Airbus aircraft, according to a press release on Wednesday.The aircraft will be operated on long haul routes and can comfortably seat close to 300 passengers."The efficiency, reliability and ...
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Morsi appeals to opposition for unified Egypt in face increasingly popular rebellion petition
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appealed Wednesday to the opposition for unity, in the face of criticism he is failing the revolution that brought him to power almost a year ...
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Memo From Jerusalem Israel Is Drawn Into Syria’s Turmoil
JERUSALEM -- For more than two years, Israeli leaders have insisted they had no intention of intervening in the civil war raging in neighboring Syria, but they vowed to stop sophisticated weapons from being transferred to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group, and to respond to intentional fire into their ...
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FOX NEWS POLL Voters US shouldnt intervene in Syria
Most Americans do not want the United States to get more involved in Syria. A new Fox News poll finds that nearly a quarter of voters (23 percent) thinks the U.S. should get more involved because it's a humanitarian crisis and Syria is a strategically important country. However, nearly three times as many, 68 percent, say the U.S. should stay out because it's a civil war and the ...
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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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