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S.Korea media blame Iran for angry World Cup scenes
Iran players celebrate victory over South Korea in a World Cup qualifier in Ulsan, Korea, on Tuesday. South Korean media blamed Iran Wednesday for angry scenes at a tense World Cup qualifier which ended with fans pelting debris on to the pitch and the visiting coach under fire for a rude ...
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Egypt tourism minister resigns over Luxor governor
The ancient temple in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's minister of tourism has resigned following the appointment of a new governor in the temple city of Luxor who belongs to an Islamist party linked to a deadly attack on tourists, state TV said ...
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Rohani once approved of hiding Iran atomic work
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Years before he became Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation's nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, "the world started to work with ...
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Three people killed in northern Yemen bombing official
SANAA (Reuters) - Three people were killed and eight wounded in a town in northern Yemen on Wednesday when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in a busy market, a security official said. The attack occurred in Saada, a town near the border ...
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South Sudan President suspends two ministers in graft probe
JUBA - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has suspended two of his most senior and influential ministers to launch investigations into an alleged multi-million dollar corruption scandal, official documents published Wednesday ...
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Will the Switzerland of the Middle East revive ever again
After the war, Lebanon experienced a period of economic prosperity. Revenues from tourism in that period increased ten-fold. Lebanon is often called the "Switzerland of the Middle East." However, after the outbreak of the Civil War (1975-1983) the country faced difficult ...
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Syria splits G8 into “seven plus one”
As it was expected Syria became the main cause of differences between Russia and the other participants in the G8 summit that ended on Tuesday in Lough Erne. The West was unwilling to give up unilateral support for the Syrian opposition, as Moscow calls ...
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Israel hit by Grad rocket today
Occupied Jerusalem: June 19 -- (BNA)-- "Radio Israel" reported that one (Grad) rocket hit this morning near Ashkelon city. The Israeli radio station said that the source of the rocket was from Gaza Strip and that no human causalities or property damage were reported so far. The Hebrew Radio pointed out that two rockets were launched however both rockets landed inside Palestinian ...
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Israeli authorities arrest 3 Palestinian youngsters and dismantle the doors of 10 shops in Jenin today
Ramallah: June 19 -- (BNA)-- Israeli occupation forces arrested three Palestinian youngsters from Jenin province at dawn today (Wednesday: 19 June 2013) and dismantled the doors of ten commercial shops in the industrial area. Local security sources quoted by the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reportedly said that a large number of Israeli occupation forces stormed into Jenin City, abducting ...
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Qatar Signs Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products
New York, June 19 (BNA) - Qatar signed last night the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. The signing ceremony took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN Shaikh Mishaal bin Hamad Al Thani signed the Protocol. The signing ceremony was attended by Representative of UN Secretary General and Head of the ...
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Kuwait telco Viva signs $270m financing deal
Kuwaiti telecoms operator Viva, part-owned by Saudi Telecom Co (STC) and the Kuwaiti government, has secured $270m to help fund plans to upgrade its network and expand in ...
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China Envoy Says Middle East Conflict Too Complex for U.S. Alone
Middle East 's challenges are too complicated for the U.S. to address alone, a top Chinese envoy said today, as the government seeks greater influence in a region that's the source of 50 percent of its oil ...
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Desert Regions on the Horizon REC Enters the Middle East
MUNICH, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- REC, the largest European supplier of solar panels globally, plans to make an impact at this year's Intersolar in Munich in hall A1, booth 380, by displaying for the very first time a bi-facial solar panel concept well suited for desert conditions, and announcing the opening of a new office in Dubai, UAE. ...
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Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S. amid Taliban peace process
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul June 18, ...
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On Syria Obama no fool on question of intervention
Last week, Bill Clinton warned that President Barack Obama risked looking like a "wuss" and "a total fool" for not acting sooner on Syria. Shortly thereafter - but two months after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel charged that strongman Bashar Assad had crossed a "red line" in using chemical weapons against his own people - the White House announced that in response ...
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Iran and Egypt Old Foes New Competitors
Demonstrators storm the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, in protest of President Morsi's expansion of powers in Alexandria, Egypt, on Nov. 23. (Photo: Mohamed Hanno, ...
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Obama Again Backs Off On Syria
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- President Barack Obama, less than a week afterapproving U.S. military aid to Sunni rebels, has backed away from proposalsmeant to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. Obama, in his first interview on the subject, acknowledged that he wasskeptical over measures to restrain Assad's military amid its offensiveagainst the rebels. The president dismissed the prospect of a ...
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Israel Reports New Arms Deals
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel has reported a series of arms export deals. The state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries reported a series of newcontracts with unidentified foreign militaries. IAI said the contracts,awarded in 2013, exceeded $100 ...
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Twin suicide bombings More blood drenches streets of Iraq
Twin suicide bombings killed 31 people after midday prayers at a Shiite Muslim religious centre in Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest in violence sparking fears of a revival of full-blown sectarian ...
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Erdogan demonizes opposition like all dictators do
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday claimed victory over anti-government protesters after a heavy crackdown, as police raided homes and arrested dozens of demonstrators in a bid to stamp out nearly three weeks of ...
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UN Gathafis move to Oman in breach of sanctions
UNITED NATIONS - A daughter and son of late Libyan dictator Moamer Gathafi have moved from Algeria to Oman in breach of UN sanctions, a UN ambassador said ...
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Hamas Follows Hizb In Tunnel Rockets
GAZA CITY [MENL] -- The Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip has been directed byHizbullah on the use of tunnels for missile and rocket fire toward ...
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Hawks doves and pipeline politics in Syria
By Peter Dale Scott Like President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, United States President Barack Obama's Syrian policy is being tugged strenuously in Washington by hawks and by doves. On June 13, Obama handed two limited but ominous victories to the hawks: a finding of fact that the troops of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad "have used chemical weapons [i.e. Sarin] against rebel ...
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Modernity makes a mark in Iran vote
if you are interested in contributing. The June 14 election in Iran has not only shattered many prejudgments about the supposedly predetermined results of the 11th Iranian presidential poll on the international level, but it has also taken many inside Iran by surprise. The reformists, who have been subject to the most severe media criticism and sabotage ...
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IAEA should avoid political stance Iran says
Iran questions IAEA's political stance, says committed to NPT. Iranian Foreign Ministry has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief to avoid politicizing Tehran’s nuclear issue. "If the International Atomic Energy Agency’s expectations are beyond Iran’s obligations [under the Non-proliferation Treaty], this will require the definition of a ...
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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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