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Things are jazzin up in da Cairo club every Tuesday til the 4th of June
Errybody in 'da Cairo Jazz Club gettin' crunk El-Fusion is a series of two-part concerts, where first set is played by Egyptian contemporary musicians, followed by a band from another country in the Middle East/North Africa every Tuesday between 14 May - 4 June ...
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Syria Kurdish Women Fighters Battle In Aleppo
A helicopter gunship passes overhead, soon followed by the "crump crump" noise of weapon systems firing. On the ground nobody moves, staying in the shadows waiting for the danger to pass. A soldier waves me forward and I enter a building. It is totally black inside apart from the bright beams of sunlight streaming through sniper holes driven into the ancient rock of this hilltop ...
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Baghdad car bomb kills 13 raises death toll to 70
Shia neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday afternoon in a busy market in the Shaab Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. A police officer says 25 people wounded in the explosion. A medical official confirmed the casualty ...
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Iraq attacks kill at least 70 in Shia Sunni areas
Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighbourhood, a predominantly Shia area of eastern Baghdad, on Monday, among a wave of car bombings and other attacks across Baghdad in recent days. (Hadi Mizban/Associated ...
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Burma leader making landmark White House visit- Kerry to Mideast to press Syria peace talks
Former general Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first Burma president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation. But activists are angry about President Obama hosting Thein Sein, and lawmakers are wary. The Burma leader has led the shift from decades of direct military rule, but ...
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Wave of violent attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq
BAGHDAD – A string of car bombs and shootings killed at least 57 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, pushed the death toll in Iraq since Wednesday to more than 200. The bloodshed ...
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Dozens killed in wave of violent attacks across Iraq
BAGHDAD – A string of car bombs and shootings killed at least 57 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, pushed the death toll in Iraq since Wednesday to more than 200. The bloodshed ...
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Five dead in Israeli bank robbery
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A bank robbery in Israel on Monday ended with the deaths of five people, including one of the holdup men who apparently shot and killed himself when police launched a raid to free ...
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Syria fierce battle for strategic town of Qusair
18/05/2013 10:34 CET Around 30 Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting in Qusair since Sunday May 19 – according to activists opposed to President Bashar al Assad. The town, which is located near the Lebanese border, had been a stronghold of opposition forces until the Syrian regime launched an offensive to recapture the strategically important ...
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Spokesman for al-Qaida-linked Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday. Sanda Ould Boumana, the Timbuktu-based spokesman for Ansar Dine, is being transferred to Mauritania's capital, ...
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Officials say suspected US drone kills 2 militants in central Yemen
SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni security and military officials say a suspected U.S. drone has killed two militants in a town in the centre of the country. The officials said the Monday attack targeted the two men as they were riding a motorbike outside Radda in Bayda province. The officials said the two men were suspected of belonging to al-Qaida, whose Yemeni branch Washington considers the terror ...
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Bungled bank heist in Israel leaves gunman 4 more dead
Israeli security and rescue forces gather following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheba on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police ...
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US drone strikes again in Yemen
The attack took place in the Khobza area of the central province of Baida, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that an American drone launched the ...
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Massive penalty brings down top executives in Kuwait oil sector
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's vital oil sector has undergone a major reshuffle, with new executives appointed for the subsidiaries of Kuwait Petroleum Corp, after a new KPC chief was named, the national oil firm said ...
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Dozens dead in bombings shootings kidnappings across Iraq
Car bombings and shootings, many in predominately Shiite areas in Iraq, killed more than three dozen people, officials said Monday. Basra police said at least nine people were killed and 37 others wounded when two car bombs exploded Monday in two neighborhoods, CNN reported. In Haditha, gunmen ambushed two police checkpoints, killing eight officers, police said. Seven car bombs in Baghdad on ...
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Abdullah bin Zayed takes part in Doha Forum and Enriching the Middle-Easts Economic Future Conference
WAM DOHA, May 20th, 2013 (WAM)-- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, today attended the inauguration of the Doha Forum: Enriching the Middle-East's Economic Future Conference, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Doha. The Forum was opened by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, in the presence of heads of states and delegations. The ...
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Flight-Ambulance-International chooses Al Bateen Executive Airport for stopover base in Middle East
WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 -- German air ambulance specialist and VVIP jet operator, Flight-Ambulance-International (FAI) rent-a-jet AG, has named today Al Bateen Executive Airport as its preferred stopover airport in the Middle East region. Through an agreement with the German operator, Al Bateen Executive Airport, operated by Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) as the only dedicated ...
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Equatorial Guinea prohibits Egypt revolt reports
No talk of a Tunisia or Egypt-style revolutions in Equatorial Guinea. These were the orders given to media in the country, which all are controlled by the state or the family of President Teodoro Obiang ...
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Israel rejects French TV claim on Palestinian boys death
A September 30, 2000, file combo of TV grabs from France 2 footage taken during Israeli-Palestinian clashes in Netzarim in the Gaza Strip shows Jamal al-Dura and his son Mohammed, 12, hiding behind a barrel from Israeli-Palestinian cross fire. (via ...
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Four killed in bank robbery in Israel
FOUR people were killed and at least three injured Monday in a bank robbery in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, police and first aid officials said. The robber shot himself, and a woman he had apparently held hostage was freed, Negev District Police Commander Peretz Amar told reporters at the scene, announcing the incident was "over." "We tried to negotiate with him. We ...
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The Latest Images from Syria
This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens shows Syrian rebels preparing to repel an attack by government forces, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria, May 19, ...
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Syria Without water Revolution
By Thomas L. Friedman , The New York Times TEL ABYAD, Syria -- I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was terrifying -- much more so than I anticipated -- but not because we were threatened in any way by the Free Syrian Army soldiers who took us around or by the Islamist Jabhet al-Nusra fighters who stayed hidden in the shadows. It was the local school that shook me up. As we ...
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Azerbaijan works to return citizens detained in Iran
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry continues the coordination work to get released Azerbaijani scholar Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Huseynov, who have been detained in Tabriz earlier. The statement came from spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan Elman Abdullayev at a press conference ...
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Iraq car bombings leaves scores of civilians dead
Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials saidThe attacks, some of which targeted market places and crowded bus stops during the rush hour, are the latest in a recent spike in violence in Iraq that has targeted both Sunni and Shiae civilians and pushed the death toll over the past week to more than 200 people. The ...
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Fears of Civil War Grip Iraq as Bombings and Death Skyrocket
Providing further evidence that Iraq is already experiencing the violence of a civil war, multiple bombings in two major cities on Monday killed dozens of people and injured many ...
Egypt Digest
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Egypt's oil industry is growing rapidly
Egypt has, in recent years, made immense gains in terms of economic performance. The country has long been the economic powerhouse of North Africa and Africa in general (second only to South Africa and Nigeria) and has taken great steps to reverse the highly-centralized economy inherited from President Gamel Abdel Nasser.
The oil and gas sector has long been one of the major strengths in the Egyptian economy, along with other natural resources such as minerals, gold and natural gas. Read more
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