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Deadly clashes in Lebanons Tripoli continue unabated
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - At least 23 people have been killed since Sunday in Syria-linked clashes between Sunni and Alawite residents of the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security source said on ...
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Indias Jet Airways shareholders approve Etihad deal
MUMBAI - Shareholders of India's Jet Airways on Friday approved a deal in which Abu Dhabi-based airline Etihad will take a 24 percent stake in the private carrier, media reports ...
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Tunisia Femen activist to face pepper spray charge
TUNIS: A young Tunisian women's rights activist, who was arrested at the weekend while protesting against hardline Islamists, has been charged with possessing pepper spray, her lawyer said on Thursday.The 18-year-old, known by the pseudonym Amina Tyler, who sparked controversy in March by posting topless pictures of herself online, has been summoned to appear in court next Thursday, ...
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Bahrain economic growth seen at 5 this year
Economic growth in Bahrain is expected to rise to more than five percent this year on the back of a rebound in oil production and expansion in non-oil ...
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AUDIO Burberry boss looking to Middle East
The Today programme's Friday Boss is Burberry chief executive Angela Ahrendts. The British fashion brand is one of the UK's most successful luxury exports. Last year it spooked investors with a profit warning because of slowing demand from its key Chinese market. However, this week it reported profits of more than 400m, with sales up 20% in China. Today business presenter Simon ...
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Syria is ready for talks - Russia
Moscow - Russia said on Friday that the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference proposed by Russia and the United States, and criticised what it called attempts to undermine peace ...
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High court orders new approach to Iraq abuse inquiry
The high court has called for a new approach to an inquiry into allegations that British troops committed "terrifying acts of brutality" following the invasion ...
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Syria opposition struggles to forge transition plan before talks
George Sabra (L), a veteran Christian opposition figure and acting President of the Syrian National Coalition, speaks during the opening session of a meeting by members of the Syrian opposition in Istanbul May 23, ...
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Iran denies it has forces in Syria
Tehran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory. "The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by Iranian state television. At a meeting in Jordan on Thursday, the Friends of Syria grouping of Western and Arab governments called for the immediate withdrawal from Syria of Iranian ...
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Russia Syria has agreed in principle to peace talks
proposed by Russia and the United States . Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks that the Syrian government had agreed to attend the conference in Geneva, which is expected within two weeks. Lukashevich said, however, that it was impossible to set the date for the conference yet because there was "no clarity about who will speak on behalf of the ...
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Recruitment firm Archelons to invest $1 mn in Qatar
Archelons has announced it will invest $1 million in Qatar over the coming five years in the field of management solutions. Making the announcement at an event in Doha, Archelons CEO Pankaj Mittal said the company's management solutions include talent identification, talent sourcing, assessment solutions and recruitment. "Archelons seeks to open doors for both recruiters and job ...
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Oil field test from Iraq yields results
Norwegian oil and gas company DNO International said tests from a field in the Kurdish region of Iraq yielded an average flow rate of more than 100,000 bpd. DNO has a majority stake in the Tawke field in the Kurdish region of Iraq alongside Turkish energy company Genel Energy and the Kurdistan Regional Government. DNO said a 72-hour test of from the Tawke field averaged more than 100,000 ...
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Two Mossad CIA spies executed in Iran state TV
TEHRAN, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Two Iranian spies working for the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad were hanged in Iran on Sunday morning, the state IRIB TV said. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues of the country and had given them to the Israeli Mossad in several meetings outside of the ...
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UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars
The killing of drummer Lee Rigby, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, near London's Woolwich army barracks on Wednesday was a horrific act. Rigby was first run down by two men in a car, who then set about him with knives and a cleaver.One of the men who carried out the killing was identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent. The other has only ...
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Russia Syria Agrees to Participate in Conference
Russia says the Syrian government has agreed in principle to attend aproposed international peace conference on the country's future. A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said Friday that Syria has agreed to participate in the conference that Russia and the U.S. have proposed next month in Geneva. But he said it is impossible to set a date yet because it is not clear yet who will ...
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Workers Struggles Europe Middle East Africa
Around 400 drivers of the Veolia bus company have taken part in a walkout since May 14, in protest at a new shift system and the company's personnel management record. Over the past week, Veolia Transport and the union have held talks without results. The strike affects all Veolia routes from the Tuupakka and Hakunila depots. Traffic in central Vantaa has been severely affected, as well as ...
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Syria’s civil war ‘likely to explode’ Annan says
Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize winner, shares a moment on stage with former Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson in Ottawa on May 23, 2013. Mr. Annan delivered a lecture at an annual event by the Global Centre for Pluralism. (COLE BURSTON FOR THE GLOBE AND ...
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Syrian state media Rebels attack prison in north
AP10ThingsToSee - In this image from amateur video obtained by a group called Ugarit News, a rebel runs from an explosion, Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Qusair, Syria. An intense battle drove rebels from large parts of Qusair, part of a withering government offensive aimed at securing a strategic land corridor from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast. (AP ...
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What to do about Syria Stay far away from it
Whether America should intervene to help end the bloodshed in Syria or leave it to others.***Ralph Peters has it right: Let the Middle East fight it out and redraw its own borders ("The Arab Collapse," PostOpinion, May 20). Maybe the result will be fewer terrorists clamoring to kill Americans, while asking for money to support their refugees. This area has been at war since the ...
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Syrian Rebels Continue To Clash With Hezbollah-Backed Forces
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Today was the fifth day in the battle for Qusayr, a small Syrian city, population normally about 30,000, that lies close to the ...
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The revolution in Syria will continue on a knife edge until it achieves the victory
Moaz Al-Khateeb is still striving like a snake to gather the betrayers from the opposition to accept the selling out of the revolution and to save the Syrian regime in response to American ...
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Analysis Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt
kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula . They were released unhurt after marathon negotiations that lasted until dawn Wednesday between a representative of military intelligence, a Salafi sheikh and a representative of the Swarka tribe, one of the largest in the peninsula.No one will guarantee it will be the last kidnapping. The official version is that no deal was struck, and it may ...
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Israel near bottom of BBC poll ranking countries
Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world's most positively viewed countries.Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a "mainly positive" or "mainly negative" influence in the ...
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Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities
British author Dr. Qanta Ahmed spoke on Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem about the difficulties for minorities in Islamic societies and how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates them.The event was organized by Alan Schneider, director of the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, and cosponsored by the Ecumenical Theological ...
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HSBCs rich pickings in Qatar
"We are number one and we are three times [the size of] number two." This is how Abdul Hakeem Mostafawi, the CEO of HSBC Qatar, positions his bank among the group of international lenders currently plying their trade in Qatar. While this statement shows a strong sense of self-belief, the hefty presence of big local banks in the market means that there is no suggestion that Mostafawi is ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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