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If not stopped Syria’s conflict may spread to neighbouring states - Assad
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Russia US agree to push for Syria talks
/enpproperty--> LOUGH ERNE, Britain - Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama on Monday held face-to-face talks on Syria on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Britain. At a press conference after their two-hour talks, the two leaders admitted they had big differences on Syria, but they agreed to push for a summit in Geneva, Switzerland. "Our positions ...
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Qatar chief ponders winter 2022 World Cup
Qatar's World Cup bid has come under scrutiny Since Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 World Cup, debate has raged over temperatures which many consider will be a hinderance to players, officials and spectators, despite air-conditioned stadia.However, Al Thawadi insists the tournament will be held at the most appropriate time, and in accordance with the wishes of the game's ...
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Saudi Arabia sending missiles to Syrian opposition - report
War Saudi Arabia is said to be providing anti-aircraft missiles to Syria's insurgency, confirming that country's long-standing policy of supporting the ouster of president Bashar Assad. According to a Gulf source cited by Reuters, the kingdom has been supplying shoulder-fired ...
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Showdown over dinner Putin urged by world leaders to back Syria peace moves
Enbridge Inc. shot back at critics of its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Monday, arguing the project is making enormous and costly commitments to avoid ...
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Meddling in Middle East are we even arming allies
Whether President Obama’s decision to provide arms to Syrian rebels is in the nation’s interest.***While the mess in Syria is a collective stain on the conscience, I’m not a fan of Amir Taheri’s solution ("Will O Finally Lead?" PostOpinion, June 14).In urging us to reject the "dangerous abdication of US leadership across the board," Taheri is ignoring ...
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World Briefing | Middle East 15 Die in Iraq Bomb Attacks
Three bombings in Iraq killed 15 people on Monday, officials said. A bomb left inside a restaurant in Taji, which serves travelers on the highway linking Baghdad to several northern Sunni-majority cities, killed eight people, including two women and a 12-year-old child, the police said. Twenty-four others were wounded. Also in Taji, a bomb placed inside a minibus killed two commuters and wounded ...
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Mt. Lebanon School Board OKs work for high school renovation project
The Mt. Lebanon School Board on Monday night unanimously approved $354,934 in change orders for the high school renovation project, despite criticism from some residents at the ...
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New president shifts Iran’s tack hews to nuclear goals
Western hopes that Iran's newly elected president signals a moderate shift by the mullahs who run the country may be misplaced, given Hassan Rowhani's support of the leadership's nuclear program, some experts ...
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G8 challenges Russia to sign up to Syria peace plan
ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom (AFP) - World leaders were to fight for a consensus on Syria on the final day of the G8 summit Tuesday, after challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin to get on board or be left out in the cold.The meeting of world leaders in Northern Ireland was also due to seek a deal on tax evasion but it was the divisions over the civil war in Syria that threatened to ...
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How Will Irans New President Impact Relations With U.S.
What does the election of Hasan Rowhani mean for Iran's nuclear program? How will Iran's new president approach relations with the U.S.? To address those questions, Gwen Ifill is joined by Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Cliff Kupchan of the Eurasia ...
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U.S. Russia still dont agree on Syria
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...
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South Africa urges Iran to resolve issues with IAEA
South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday urged Iran to give priority to resolving all outstanding issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Zuma was speaking while congratulating Hassan Rouhani for being elected as Iranian president succeeding current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRC).Resolving the ...
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Europe to pay the price for arming Syria rebels al-Assad
Europe will "pay the price" if it sends arms to Syrian rebel forces, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday in an interview with a German newspaper."If the Europeans deliver weapons, then Europe's backyard will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for that," the Syrian president said in the interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
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US Russia able to overcome differences on Syria
Despite disagreements on the Syrian crisis, the United States and Russia are expected to reach at least "minimum consensus" on ways to overcome the obstacles facing the Geneva peace conference likely to take place in July, analysts said.US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are meeting Monday on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern Ireland and the ...
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Rouhani holds fast on Iran nuclear issue offers transparency
Hassan Rouhani ruled out Monday any halt to the nuclear activity that has drawn U.N. sanctions but said he hoped an early deal could be reached to allay the concerns of major powers.Rouhani said his new government, to be formed after his inauguration in August, would "revive ethics and constructive interaction with the world through moderation.""I hope that all countries use this ...
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The femme fatale who toppled the Czech PM
File - Feb. 29, 2012 file picture, head of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas' office Jana Nagyova, is photographed in London as she listens Necas speech at London School of Economics (LSE). (AP Photo,CTK/Jakub Dospiva) Jana ...
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Syria tops agenda as Obama meets Putin at G-8 in Northern Ireland
By F. Brinley Bruton, Staff Writer, NBC News President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart - on opposite sides of a civil war but using delicate language about a difference of opinion - said Monday that they shared an interest in stopping the bloodshed in Syria, as the White House planned to announce more than $300 million in a new humanitarian aid package to go to the war-torn country and ...
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G8 Summit U.S. Russia disagree on Syria
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...
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Putin Obama remain far apart on Syria weapons
(25 mins ago) Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin aired divergent views on Syria, but pledged to at least try to keep alive an effort to hold a Geneva peace conference. The US and Russian presidents faced off on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, days after the White House signaled it would begin arming rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow's top Arab ally, AFP ...
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Middle East Asian Children Have Overweight Problems
MELBOURNE, June 18 (Bernama) -- Primary school children from Middle-Eastern and Asian backgrounds are significantly more overweight than children from English-speaking backgrounds and have lower levels of physical activity and cardiovascular fitness, a new research has shown. Paper co-author, Dr Debra Hector from the University of Sydney's s School of Public Health, said the study was ...
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Syria divides G8 summit
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders on Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the United States, Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's ...
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Video Obama Putin cite shared goals in Syria
Despite tensions between the United States and Russia on how best to address the ongoing violence in Syria, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting declared their shared interests in "reducing violence" in the war-torn country, even while both acknowledged their differences on the ...
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Excerpts Lebanon polarised by Hizbollah win in Syria. US. blaclists
Excerpts: Lebanon polarised by Hizbollah win in Syria.US. blaclists Hezbolla fundraisers June 12, 2013 +++SOURCE: Jordan Times 12 ...
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15 killed 90 wounded in fresh attacks in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 90 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, said the police. A car bomb went off near the Abu Ghraib Grand Mosque, a Sunni mosque in Abu Ghraib area, 25 km west of the capital Baghdad, on Tuesday evening, killing eight people and injuring 15 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. 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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