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Letters International intervention in Syria
Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a press conference at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland where leaders called for a peace conference on Syria to be held. Photograph: Matt Cardy/AFP/Getty ...
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Syria crisis needs political solution David Cameron tells MPs
Syria , putting his strongest emphasis yet on a political solution to the crisis as he came under pressure from his own backbenchers and Labour not to supply weapons to the Syrian rebels.Cameron was reporting back to the Commons from ...
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Iran says appeals for jihad in Syria fuel radicalism
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on ...
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Angelina Jolie Visits Syrian Refugees in Jordan for World Refugee Day
Sent by the UNHCR Special Envoy on Tuesday, Jolie's visit was "to show support for Syria's refugees, to call on the world to address their plight, and to better understand needs in Jordan and other countries in the region most directly affected by this devastating conflict," Us Magazine reported."The worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century is unfolding in the ...
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Kerry calls Karzai to allay Afghan presidents anger over opening of Taliban office in Qatar
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State John Kerry called the Afghan president twice in the past 24 hours to ease Hamid Karzai's anger over the way the Taliban announced the opening of their political office in Qatar. The rift delayed the announced visit to the region this week by the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Karzai was upset that the Taliban used its formal name ...
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World powers to meet in Doha to decide on how to answer Syrian rebel demands
PARIS - World powers will meet this weekend in Qatar to decide on how to answer a list of requests for help from Syrian rebels, a French diplomat said Wednesday. The U.S., France, Britain and Germany are among 11 countries meeting in Doha as part of the Friends of Syria group. Foreign ministers will be attending the discussions. A "precise" list of demands from Syrian rebels was set ...
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Video Jordan US hold military exercise in desert across border from Syria
Tanks zoom across the desert while helicopters carry out an air assault as part of a joint U.S., Jordan military exercise just across the border from ...
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Is America’s Iraq Imploding
In March 2013, America's invasion of Iraq reached its 10th anniversary. After a decade of nation building, Iraq is falling apart. In April 2013, deadly clashes between government forces and demonstrators in the city of Hawija set off a chain reaction of retaliatory attacks across Iraq. The situation now threatens to plunge the country into the kind of war it experienced in the midst of the ...
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Hamas Syria conflict impacting Iranian financial aid
Hamas's deteriorating relations with Iran and Syria have impacted financial aid to the Islamist movement, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, was quoted Wednesday as saying.Noting that Syria had supported Hamas financially and politically, Hamad said that his movement's support for the Syrian "revolution" has resulted in the loss of financial aid from both ...
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Why Iran Cant Reform - By Christian Caryl
Obama to outline big nuke cuts today; DOD civilian owes $500k - to DOD; Petraeus to Team Rubicon; Hastings, dead; Say goodbye, Rambo; Tara Sonenshine on "bottom line diplomacy;" and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Bahrain Sickle Cell Society Chairman Hails Premier
Manama-june19(BNA) Bahrain Society for Sickle Cell Anaemia Patient Care chairman Zakareya Ebrahim Al-Kadhem today hailed His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa for ordering the re-examination of the Health Ministry's protocols related to sickle cell patients. He hailed HRH the Premier for issuing directives to set up an efficient system and ensure ...
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Middle East in dire need of skilled IT pros says CompTIA study
Middle Eastern businesses want to invest in IT during 2013, but they're struggling to find skilled candidates to fill posts, according to new research released by CompTIA, a non-profit association for the IT ...
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Egypt’s tourism minister resigns over appointment of new governor of Luxor province
Egypt's tourism minister has resigned over the government appointment of an Islamic fundamentalist associated with the group behind the Luxor massacre as governor of Luxor ...
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Syrian rebels claim responsibility for killings in Lebanon
A group of Syrian rebels has claimed responsibility in a video for killing four Shi’ites in Lebanon this week – another example of how Syria’s civil war is spreading into its neighbour. One of those in the film says they were killed by the ';Syrian Mujahideen Unit'; as they were trying to enter Syria, and claims the men were from Hezbollah. The Lebanese militant ...
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Feds 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon so they could secretly harm Israel foes
ALBANY, N.Y. - Federal authorities on Wednesday accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Prosecutors said 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight have been charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists following a yearlong undercover investigation. Investigators ...
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Irans electoral watchdog approves presidential election result moderate Rowhanis victory
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative moderate. The report Wednesday said Hasan Rowhani won the election by taking nearly 51 per cent of votes. Since he won more than half, that eliminated the need for a runoff. Rowhani ...
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Presidential election in Iran started at 8 a.m. Friday…
Presidential election in Iran started at 8 a.m. Friday ANKARA - Voting in the presidential election started in Iran at 8 a.m. on Friday and polling stations will close at 6 p.m..Around 51 million Iranians are expected to vote at the presidential election as well as local elections.Voters will choose among 6 reformist and conservative candidates for a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...
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If Egypt can we can do it too - Swazi opposition
"Tunisia and Egypt are a big 'we can do it too,' not just for Swaziland, but for the rest of the African continent and the repressed Arab world," according to the Swazi ...
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Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests
Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...
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Syria troops fight rebels near major Shiite shrine
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian forces in battling rebels in a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine, in a push to secure the area around the ornate, golden domed ...
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Rugby league Though Lebanon trip off calendar UAE Falcons side is still on trial
DUBAI // This evening's Emirate of Origin fixture between Dubai and Abu Dhabi will still act as a selection trial for the UAE Falcons even though the representative side's summer tour to Lebanon has been cancelled. The Falcons had been due to travel to Beirut for two fixtures next month but the trip has been shelved due to security concerns. The Rugby League Commission (RLC) hope to ...
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Egypt and European Union Study Dispute with Ethiopia
Cairo, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi welcomed today Catherine Ashton, vice-president of the European Union (EU) and high representative for foreign affairs, and talked to her about the dispute for the construction of the Ethiopian super-dam, according to the official media. In the meeting, they talked about the opening of communication channels between Cairo and Addis ...
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Review Fighting and losing in Iran then and now
"Children of the Jacaranda Tree" (Atria Books), by Sahar DelijaniLet's get one thing out of the way: I admire Sahar Delijani for taking on post-revolutionary Iran as the subject of her debut novel, "Children of the Jacaranda Tree." It is a tough topic to tackle, especially for a novelist trying, as Delijani does, to explore the emotions involved in what is simply not a ...
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Watchdog approves Iran poll result
Tehran, Iran - Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative ...
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Babies behind bars A Palestinian fertility doctor has become an unlikely hero by helping women conceive – even though their husbands are in jail
A normal story repeated anywhere in the world perhaps, but what is special about Lydia is that her husband is 12 years into a 25-year prison sentence in an Israeli jail.There are certainly no conjugal visits for Palestinian security prisoners, who the Israelis consider to be terrorists. Instead, Lydia - whose first child was born before her husband was jailed for being a member of the Al-Aqsa ...
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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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