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Gemayel speaks to Qatar emir on regional issues
Amin Gemayel discussed domestic and regional issues Monday with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. The two officials spoke of the situation ...
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Lebanon praised for efforts to enhance French relations
BEIRUT: An international general assembly of "Legion d’Honneur" recipients commended the Lebanese club for its efforts to enhance Lebanese-French relations. During a meeting in Paris, the French chapter of the club, which brought together figures who were honored with the prestigious French Legion d’Honneur decoration, expressed its readiness to collaborate with the ...
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Palestinian refugee counsels Syrians
Lebanon for the next several weeks. "I know what it’s like to feel like the ‘other’ and be different in the world. This gives me compassion for people who don’t feel at home," says Ashtan, a warm and outgoing woman who takes an immediate interest and empathy in those around her – an invaluable trait for someone who is working with refugee children as well ...
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Egypt KSA to sign joint power line deal
Egyptian electricity and energy minister Ahmed Imam is expected to sign an agreement with his Saudi counterpart for the construction of an electrical power line between the two countries, Daily News Egypt has reported. The total cost of the project is set to reach $1.6bn, with each side to bear the cost of construction on its own side of the border, which for Egypt is estimated at $600m. The ...
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Qatar establishes $1bn energy fund
Three Qatari state-backed entities, including the Gulf country's sovereign wealth fund, have announced plans to set up a $1bn fund to invest in overseas energy infrastructure assets, Reuters has reported. The new fund, which will be run by Qatar Holding, Qatar Petroleum International and Qatar Electricity and Water Co (QEWC), will invest outside Qatar "in the fields of power ...
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Total buys Shells fuel network in Egypt
France's Total has acquired the fuel retail network of Royal Dutch Shell in Egypt, as the oil and gas major seeks to boost its distribution position in the country and across the region, Daily News Egypt has reported. Total currently owns 70 fuel stations in Egypt, which represents 4% of the market share. "Through this acquisition, we reaffirm our ambition to pursue our development in ...
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Saudi Arabias MMG picks advisor for debt restructuring
The investment banking arm of Gulf International Bank has been appointed by Saudi contractor Mohammad Al Mojil Group (MMG) to advise it on a restructuring of its debts, Reuters has reported. MMG Group has been in financial difficulty for some time, with shareholders rejecting a plan to liquidate the company in November after its accumulated losses exceeded 75% of its capital at the end of the ...
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Concern over Hezbollahs growing role in Syria after fierce fighting in al-Quasir
Mourners carry the coffin of 18-year-old Hezbollah member Hasan Faisal Sheker after the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of ...
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Emirates Airlines introduces shisha lounges up in the sky.
Emirates has started to trial new shisha lounges aboard its A380 fleet.Last week the airline revealed that the lounges would be available to business and first class passengers on several of its long-haul routes flown using ...
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Wave of attacks hits Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq killing at least 95
An Iraqi police officer inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last week. (AP Photo/ Nabil ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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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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Syria Terrorists on the run
Field reports from the ground inside Syria point towards a difficult and complex situation, with the country teeming with foreign mercenaries, including westerners, with outside forces using Saudi, Turkey and Qatar as proxies to support minority groups and destabilize the status quo. However, all is not well for the western terrorist ...
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Syria War Fierce Battle for Key Town
Fierce fighting has been reported in the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, as rebels and government forces backed by Hezbollah militants fight for control. The state news agency reported that the army had taken control of most of the town on Monday, and killed more than 100 of what it called ';terrorists.'; Activists denied that Qusair had been captured, but said some 50 people had ...
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Former U.S. Ambassador Dont Go Into Blind To Syria
Robert Siegel talks with Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to both Iraq and Afghanistan, about how lessons learned in those conflicts could inform how the U.S. deals with Syria today. Crocker is now a fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale ...
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Volunteer Group Hopes To Save Syrias Lost Generation
In the narrow streets of the Sabra refugee camp in Beirut, there is an apartment without windows. It's a rather gloomy place for a kindergarten, but the only place available for 70 Syrian refugee children from cities like Aleppo, Homs and Deraa. A group of volunteers come to help the children overcome their traumas through music, drawing and theater classes once a week. Some kids don't ...
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Attacks kill 95 in Iraq hint of Syrian spillover
Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said Monday that he has decided to live for ...
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When It Comes to Syria Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines
- Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of ';game-changing'; weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al ...
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Syria Breaking Up Under War Pressure
The black flag of jihad flies over much of northern Syria. In the center of the country, pro-government militias and Hezbollah fighters battle those who threaten their communities. In the northeast, the Kurds have effectively carved out an autonomous zone. After more than two years of conflict, Syria is breaking up. A constellation of armed groups battling to advance their own agendas are ...
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Ford Trucks See Boost as Roadshow Reaches Saudi Arabia
Ford Middle East and Al Jazirah Vehicles Agencies Co. (AJVA), the Ford and Lincoln importer-dealer in Saudi Arabia, brought the legendary F-150 and Ranger Built Ford Tough pickup trucks closer to Saudi customers through a unique roadshow across 10 major Saudi cities, dubbed the largest of its kind. Ford's history in the Middle East goes back more than 60 years. The company's ...
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U.S. mess in Iraq
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/ Khalid ...
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Hezbollah in big Syria battle Obama concerned
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United ...
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Kerry pushes dual peace bids on Middle East return
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William Hague seeks to change arms embargo on Syria
Syria to press Bashar al-Assad into holding peace talks with the rebels because the escalating conflict is threatening a regional "catastrophe", William Hague warned on Monday.Speaking as combat raged around the strategic town of Qusair, where ...
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Syria no place for back-seat drivers | Editorial
Iran and Hezbollah to relinquish their support for Bashar Assad, in favour of a transitional regime that would offer guarantees to the minority Alawite community, that has now been answered.Whatever happens in the town of Qusair, both Hezbollah and Iran are now signalling that Assad's fate has become a matter of existential survival for them, too. The regime's victory, or defeat, will ...
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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