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Britain moves closer to arming Syrian opposition
Britain moves closer to arming Syrian opposition Britain pressures EU to amend Syria arms embargo and allow opposition to receive arms Asharq Al-Awsat 25 May 2013 London, Asharq ...
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Russia and China Will Attend Syria Conclave in Tehran
Tehran, May 26 (PL) Russia and China will attend the international conference on the Syrian crisis on Wednesday here, meeting convened by the Persian authorities preceding the so called Geneva II, agreed by Russia and the United States, confirmed an official source here. Countries with different positions (on the conflict in Syria) have been invited to the meeting, including Turkey, Qatar and ...
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Jordan to Host Worlds Largest Refugee Camp
-- Al-Zaatari refugee camp near Jordan's northern border with Syria is the second largest refugee camp in the world. On days when violence in Syria worsens, between 2,000-4,000 Syrians flood into Zaatari, and the stories they tell are horrific. "Things are happening in Syria that our minds couldn't even imagine," 65-year-old Nada Salim Abdullah, who has been in the camp four ...
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Burma puts two-child limit on Muslims
Burma 's Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian ...
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Jordanian camps offer little but its life of a sort
The Za'atari refugee camp on the Jordanian-Syrian border is home to more than 110,000 Syrian refugees, the majority of them children, who have fled the conflict that is now in its second ...
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Tender for huge Cairo Metro depot due next month
A tender for a huge new depot for Cairo's Metro system is set to be issued by the end of June. The Kodssica Depot will be the biggest in the Middle East - covering an area of around ...
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Tensions rise as Israeli jets bomb Syria again
ISRAELI jets bombed Syria yesterday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital's skyline lit by flashes. Syrian opponents of President Bashar Assad rejoiced at Israel's third ...
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Fitch expects Qatars 2013 GDP to reach 7
(MENAFN) Fitch Ratings stated that in 2013, Qatar's gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to stand at 7 percent, reported Arabian Business.The agency said that during the period, Qatari banks are expected to stay well capitalized, with most of them taking advantage of high Tier 1 ratios.Furthermore, the year is projected to witness healthy profitability and margins, nevertheless, low ...
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Emirates NBDs new Bank on Wheels hits the road
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Emirates NBD added another innovative service to its list of achievements on Friday by operating its Bank on Wheels services, which will enable the lender to assess its growth strategy for physical branches.Driven by customer convenience, the initiative comprises a secure, fully-equipped Emirates NBD vehicle, which will be parked at various customer touch points in ...
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Kerry urges Abbas to resume peace talks with Israel source
The United States Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume direct peace talks with Israel, a well-informed Palestinian source said Saturday.The source, which spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that during their meeting held on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Kerry presented to Abbas his plan on resuming direct talks with ...
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5 soldiers killed in western Iraq
Five soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the Iraqi volatile province of Anbar on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol near the town of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing five soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...
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Iran denies dispatch of military forces to Syria DM
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi denied Saturday that Iran has dispatched any military forces to Syria, semi-official Fars news agency reported."The Islamic republic of Iran has not sent and will not dispatch any military forces to Syria," Vahidi said, adding that Tehran only supports consolidation of peace and tranquillity in Syria and in the region.The Iranian ...
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Roadside bomb kills 2 policemen in southeast Yemen
A powerful roadside bomb killed two policemen in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramout on Saturday, a provincial security official told Xinhua.The bomb was planted in the main road in the Shehar town in Hadramout province and blew up while a military truck carrying the policemen passed by, leaving two soldiers killed and three others injured, the local security official said on ...
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6 Iranian pilgrims killed in car bombing in Iraq
Six Iranian pilgrims were killed and some 20 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Salahudin province north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a booby-trapped car struck a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims near the city of Samarra, some 110 km north of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The ...
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3 killed in clashes in north Lebanon
Three people were killed and another four injured in the clashes on Saturday morning between gunmen from rival neighborhoods in the northern city of Tripoli, local security told Xinhua.The source said that the fighting erupted again at dawn spiraled out of control in the morning with fighters from Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawite Jabal Mohsen using rockets and other heavy weapons, bringing the ...
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Pressure for talks on Syrias opposition
Syria's opposition National Coalition has for three days been trying to overcome divisions over Russian and US proposals to convene a peace ...
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Abbas to form new Palestinian govt within weeks
/enpproperty--> RAMALLAH - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that he intends to form a new government within two to three weeks, according to local media. The Bethlehem-based news agency Maan quoted Abbas as saying on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum held in Jordan that he will announce the new cabinet lineup within two or three weeks. Abbas didn't give ...
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Senate panel oversteps on Syria
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has injected itself into U.S. foreign policymaking regarding Syria. And it's not the first time lawmakers have moved to pressure a president to take a momentous step that could involve U.S. lives and ...
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Church Leaders Beg for Peace in Syria
As Much as 25% of Christian Population Displaced or GoneLONDON, April 15, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham is begging for peace in Syria, saying the country's "suffering has gone beyond all bounds."The Damascus-based patriarch estimates that, since the conflict broke out two years ago, up to 400,000 Syrian ...
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Yemen Makes Strides in Transition to Democracy
For more than two months, 565 people representing a cross section of ...
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Rand Paul Senate Is Arming Al-Qaeda and Rushing to War in Syria
"This is an important moment. You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda." That was the declaration Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.; pictured) made on May 21 ...
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Hezbollah promises ‘victory’ in Syria conflict
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed "victory" in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the ...
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Deaths of the no-state Palestinians are Proportional to Life of the Two State Solution.
conflict" are similar to those from other individuals and organizations whose thinking is misdirected due to a conviction that the solution must consider Zionism and Zionism leads the solution. His article, The Donkey of the Messiah, published on May 11, 2013, and circulated throughout the Internet, solicits examination and rebuttal, and for more reason than because his arguments ...
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Hezbollah Syria push for gains in rebel stronghold
seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad said additional tanks and artillery had been deployed around opposition-held territory in Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese ...
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Abbas under pressure to start talks without preconditions
PA official: Western FMs pressure Abbas to return to negotiating table even if Israel doesn't commit to settlement freeze, accept pre-1967 lines; PA president fails to update PA officials on meetings with ...
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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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