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MEMRI Fatah Marks 65th Nakba Day We Cling To The Refugees Right To Return To Their Homes In The 1948 Territories
MEMRI Special Dispatch |5302|May 17, 2013 Fatah Marks 65th Nakba Day: We Cling To The Refugees' Right To Return To Their Homes In The 1948 Territories For the 65th Nakba Day, Fatah and its spokesmen underlined their continued adherence to the Palestinian refugees' right of return to their homes in all of the 1948 territory, and noted that that this sacred right is passed down ...
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ExcerptsAssad has no plans to resign. Arab League peace plan 18 May 2013
Excerpts:Assad has no plans to resign. Arab League peace plan 18 May 2013 +++SOURCE: Naharnet (Lebanon) 18 ...
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President Peres held a diplomatic working meeting with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle
President Peres held a diplomatic working meeting with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle President Shimon Peres, this afternoon (Friday, 17 May 2013), at his Jerusalem residence, held a diplomatic working meeting with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle. Two discussed the major issues of the day, first and foremost the Iranian nuclear threat and efforts to renew ...
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Groups insist on symmetry to asymmetric situation - US Visa Waiver for Israelis should be Reciprocal
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Pop question: are there any characteristics that would enable one to identify subgroups of Israelis wanting to visit the United States who believe that the United States of America does not have a right to exist and wants to visit the United States to aid and abet people and groups inside the United States acting against the existence of the United States? No. ...
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Only 1500 protest against budget across country
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: If YNET - the new organization that makes every effort to promote the social protests against the government - can only manage to come up with a figure of "some 1,500 people gathered in various protests across Israel" then the real story here is that this protest movement is a dud so far. The question for reporters should be "why"? 1,500 protest ...
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‘Time needed for Syria to master the S-300’
Syria would require a considerable period of time before it could master the S-300 air defense system, a defense analyst said Friday.The comments came soon after Russia said it remains committed to an arms deal with Syria to deliver the advanced ...
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Drone strike kills 4 suspected Al Qaeda militants in Yemen
Four suspected Al Qaeda members are dead and the explosives they were carrying destroyed after a supposed American drone strike early Saturday in Yemen. Tribal leaders ...
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Omans Sharqiyah Desalination launches IPO
Oman's first independent water project (IWP), Sharqiyah Desalination Co (SDC) has floated an initial public offering (IPO) of 2.282 million shares, Times of Oman has reported. SDC has a paid-up capital of OR6.52m, said Xavier Joseph, CEO of the company. The shares will be available only to the individual investors and will close on June ...
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Omans Al Suwadi Al Batinah Power planning IPOs by mid-2014
Oman's Al Suwadi Power Co and Al Batinah Power Co are likely to launch their initial public offerings (IPOs) by mid-2014, Muscat Daily has reported. "There will be two IPOs, each offering 35% of shares. Currently we are reviewing the exact timing for the IPO and in a few months we will be sitting down to formulate the plans," the CEO of Al Suwadi Power, Bernard Esselinckx, told ...
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Qatar Holding acquires 40 of Italys Porta Nuova
Qatar Holding has agreed to buy a 40% stake in Milan's real estate development project Porta Nuova for an undisclosed sum, Reuters has reported. Qatar Holding will subscribe to newly issued shares with the remaining 60% staying in the hands of the current sponsors of the project, Porta Nouva developer, Hines Italia SGR, and Qatar Holding ...
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Assad insists he will not quit car bomb hits Damascus
Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people. "To resign would be to flee," Assad said in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. "I don't know ...
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Syria has no reason to use chemical weapons
World View: After the fiasco over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, people around the world are rightly sceptical about claims of gas ...
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Syrias Assad Little Chance Peace Talks Would Succeed-Newspaper
LIMA -- Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on ...
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Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike
Two Palestinians have been killed in air strikes on the Gaza Strip after they had clashed with Israeli troops crossing into the territory, medical sources ...
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Excerpts Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influencein Egypt Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013
Excerpts: Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influence in Egypt? Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013 +++SOURCE:The Syria Report 13 ...
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The Bank of Israel will purchase foreign exchange in order to offset theeffect of natural gas production on the exchange rate
The Bank of Israel will purchase foreign exchange in order to offset the effect of natural gas production on the exchange rate 13/05/2013 Natural gas production in Israel is causing an improvement in the current account, which is leading to appreciation pressures on the shekel. This phenomenon, often referred to ...
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Wave Of Violence Strikes Across Iraq Twin Bomb Blasts At Sunni Mosque Deadliest At Least 43 Killed
Twin bomb blasts hit a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) to the northeast of Baghdad, on Friday, killing at least 43 people, the deadliest incident in a spate of sectarian violence across the ...
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The West Bank Wall What Life Is Like For Palestinians And Israelis Divided By The Barrier
JERUSALEM -- From Al-Walajah, a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium, one of the venues for the European Under-21 Football Cup in June, is only a few hundred meters away. But this village on a hill couldn't be further from the city and the international audiences watching games broadcast from so close. Soon, it will be enclosed by the separation ...
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Saudi Arabia has another case of new coronavirus WHO
LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on ...
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2 journalists say Palestinian Authority interrogated them
Two Palestinian journalists said they were detained and questioned this week by the Palestinian authority, despite a promise to respect freedom of the press. One of the journalists, a documentary filmmaker, said he was forced to reveal the passwords to his personal email and Facebook page, the Jerusalem Post reported. Haroun Abu Arrah said he was questioned for more than 2 hours by agents of ...
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Israelis Palestinians battle over access to religious site
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian protesters Saturday near a mosque in East Jerusalem, Palestinian officials said. Israeli security forces arrested five people and fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets on Palestinians protesting an Israeli decision to close Aqsa Mosque to Muslims Thursday and Friday in Jerusalem's Old City so ultraorthodox Jews could enter the compound to ...
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Assad Syria transition talks are internal matter
FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country. The Syrian leader's comments, published Saturday in the Argentine newspaper ...
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20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike
CAIRO -; Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's death, leaving passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for ...
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Bahrain Free From Coronavirus Health Ministry said
Manama-May-18(BNA)The Kingdom of Bahrain has today been declared free from Coronavirus disease-for the time being. The Health Ministry has issued a statement in this regard assuring the public that no cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed to-date in Bahrain. It urged people to abide by hygienic precautionary measures, including washing hands, avoiding touching one's eyes, mouth and ...
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The United States and Britain on Monday pledged to forge ahead with diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Syria saying they had found common ground with Russia on how to proceed.
WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States and Britain stepped up pressure on Russia over Syria, but President Barack Obama warned old suspicions could trample new "common ground" on the crisis. Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron sought to build momentum behind a new US-Russia sponsored conference on Syria, now expected to take place in June, as they met at the White House. ...
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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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