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30 Egyptians Emiratis charged over Brotherhood cell
ABU DHABI - A group of 30 Egyptians and Emiratis have been charged by the UAE authorities for allegedly setting up an illegal branch of Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, a prosecutor said on ...
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Mali inks ceasefire accord with Tuareg rebels
Mali's government signed a ceasefire accord with Tuareg rebels Tuesday, paving the way for presidential elections in the troubled west African state next ...
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Special Report - How Syrias Islamists govern with guile and guns
Reuters © Military uniforms are displayed for sale among Islamists and Syrian opposition flags at a street in the souk of Raqqa province in east Syria in this April 24, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Hamid ...
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Video Shelling between Syria’s Sunni Shi’ite villages
A series of amateur videos posted on the Internet on Wednesday purport to show tit-for-tat shelling between Syria's Sunni and Shi'ite villages north of Aleppo, near where President Basher al-Assad hopes to stage a ...
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Iran GC confirms pres. poll results
Guardian Council confirms Iran presidential vote results. The Guardian Council, Iran’s highest electoral supervisory body, has confirmed the validity of the country’s June 14 presidential election results. The Iranian Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that the Council has declared the results of the 11th presidential election valid, officially announcing Hassan Rohani as ...
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Bahrain University College CEO praises the Kingdom of Bahrains Higher Education Council
Manama: June 20 --(BNA)-- The University College of Bahrain (UCB)'s Administrative and Financial Affairs CEO, Shaikh Ibrahim bin Khalid Al Khalifa, praised the Bahrain Higher Educational Council's signing of a Services Agreement with the British Accreditation Board regarding the setting up of academic standards for accreditation of higher educational institutions in the Kingdom of ...
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Kuwaits KFH says 20 capital rise oversubscribed
Kuwait Finance House (KFH), the Gulf Arab state's largest Islamic bank, said on Thursday its 20 percent capital increase had been oversubscribed by shareholders, without providing specific ...
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Qatar said to mull new $23bn UK investments
Qatar is planning to invest another 10-15bn ($15-23bn) in the UK in the next few years, bringing its total investment to nearly $57bn, it has been ...
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Syria no-fly zone would cost billions say analysts
The cost of implementing a no-fly zone in Syria would run into the billions of dollars, would be a lot more complex to manage than the previous one introduced in Libya and Gulf governments would be required to burden some of the cost, military analysts have told Arabian ...
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Syria President Assad’s grip on Damascus suggests David Cameron’s ‘coup’ is little more than fantasy
The government of President Bashar al-Assad is tightening its control of Damascus, encircling and bombarding the remaining rebel strongholds in or near the city. There was only the sound of a few distant explosions today that appear to come from the south where the Syrian army is seeking to drive rebels from around the golden-domed Shia shrine of Sayida Zeinab 10 miles from the centre of ...
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Afghanistan threatens to boycott US-backed peace talks in anger at Talibans Qatar office
The United States was racing to gather up the pieces of its always fragile relationship with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan after he broke off security talks with Washington and denounced plans for the start of peace negotiations with the ...
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Syria war gives US-Jordan war games a sharp edge
The US and Jordan have ended annual joint military exercises in the Arab country, with the drills taking on heightened significance due to the war raging in neighbouring Syria. The US is reportedly increasing its military presence in Jordan. Earlier this month it said it would deploy Patriot anti-aircraft missiles and F-16 fighter jets there, drawing swift criticism from Moscow. Nineteen Arab ...
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U.S. Israeli defense chiefs met on Iran Syria
WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. and Israeli defence chiefs on Friday reaffirmed cooperation to counter threats from Iran and condemned the alledged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart Moshe Yaalon reiterated during a meeting that the two allies "will continue to work together to counter threats posed by ...
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Panic over MERS virus fades in Saudi Arabia
People in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have again started greeting friends with the traditional kiss on the cheek, and face masks in public are becoming rarer, as panic subsides over the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease that hit the country last ...
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Two U.S. men allegedly tried to make X-ray weapon to secretly harm foes of Israel
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, N.Y., leaves the federal courthouse in shackles after being arraigned Wednesday June 19, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Federal authorities accused Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight, of Hudson, N.Y. of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Investigators said Crawford approached Jewish organizations ...
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‘The Devil’s Fire’ Syria’s Unique Blend of Pure Horror
A land that has been fought over by Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Canaanites, Judeans, Samaritans, Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Persians, Arabs, Franks, Turks, Mongols, British, French and Israelis. Not necessarily in that order, and in the case of some of the combatants, more than once. Home to a variety of Muslim sects and Christian churches, not to mention a substantial community of ...
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Men built X-ray gun to shoot Israel opponents – FBI
Israel .An indictment charges 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J Feight with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the weapon.Investigators have said Crawford approached Jewish organisations in 2012 looking for funding and people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation against those he ...
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WMD Regulation in the Middle East
"For the Syrian government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues," President Obama recently said. "So this is not an on and off switch. This is an ongoing challenge that all of us have to be concerned about." Evidently, current methods to control WMD, such as relying on ...
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Apology to Professor Amiram Goldblum
Apology to Professor Amiram Godlblum In July 2008 I published in my information site (www.imra.org.il) a piece against Prof. Amiram Goldblum, wrongly attributing to him activity to bring back a convicted terrorist to continue his PhD studies at Hebrew University. The source of this false information was the journalist Gil Ronen, who quoted in part a totally wrong story by the journalist ...
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Oman Air orders planes worth $473m from Boeing
With this new order, the airline now has a backlog of six 737-800s and five 737-900ERs. In addition, Oman Air has six Boeing 787-8s on order, the statement ...
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Ashton in power struggle over Middle East policy
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“Everything’s Up For Discussion” Open Debate in Oman
‘Things Are OK'; was the official name of an informal event that took place in Salalah's largest ballroom last Friday night with none other than H E Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs. The aim of the meeting was to invite young people in Dhofar to meet with His Excellency in an informal setting as part of the National Youth ...
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U.S. tries to save peace talks after Karzai objects to Taliban’s Qatar ‘embassy’
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked Afghanistan’s mercurial president and infuriated many of his compatriots was a ...
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Damning Suicide Note to Iran’s New Prez
Benny Avni Did the eldest son of Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rouhani kill himself to protest the "hypocrisy" of his father and the regime he serves? Iranian news reports at the time said the son shot himself with his father’s pistol in 1992. But now Iranian dissident Ali Reza Nuri reports that the son wrote a suicide note. Writing in the London-based, Saudi-owned pan-Arab ...
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Analysis US arming Assads foes forces Iran to bleed resources in Syria
WASHINGTON - In a darkening Syria, airstrips serve as the veins of the Assad government. Flying over quiet, unsupervised Iraqi airspace, Iranian craft transport undocumented weapons to their chief ally in the region on a routine basis.To the frustration of military experts and Western officials, the Iranians release no defense budget, and certainly no inventory for covert ...
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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