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Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture
The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...
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Rights groups say disappeared in Syria number in tens of thousands
Syrian detainees who took part in anti-government protests sit in a courtroom before their release in September 2012 in Damascus, Syria. Intelligence agents are grabbing civilians seen as a threat to President Bashar Assad's regime, including human-rights activists and lawyers, and are delivering them to torture dungeons where they vanish. IPTC: FILE - In this September 1, 2012 file photo, ...
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76 killed in Iraqs deadliest day in eight months
Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pray during Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad. Elsewhere, a bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshipers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqubah comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left scores of people dead. IPTC: ...
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After the Damascus Attack Ten Points to Consider
After the Damascus Attack: Ten Points to Consider by Amos Yadlin, Director of INSS INSS Insight No. 424 Sunday, May 12, 2013 One week has passed since the attacks near Damascus, which according to American sources destroyed advanced Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles making their way from Iran to Hizbollah in Lebanon. Now that the dust has settled and it seems as if the strike was ...
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Lebanon arrests a network smuggling Syrian antiquities
Lebanese General Security arrested several people and recovered Byzantine and Roman-era artifacts stolen from churches and cemeteries in Syria and smuggled into Lebanon, LBCI reported on Saturday. Sources told LBCI ...
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Report Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict
Israeli intelligence officer tells 'Times of London' that Israel prefers a "devil it knows than demons it can only imagine"; another source said Assad's staying power had been ...
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Muslims but not brothers Chilly relations between Cairo and Riyadh
Morsi's looks won't be enough to win Saudi Arabia over. Although the new Egyptian regime immediately displayed its willingness to continue the alliance forged between Cairo and Riyadh in the Mubarak era, Saudi leaders, despite the economic aid offered and the diplomatic formulas used, remain at least cautious ...
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US Criticizes Russian Missiles Sale to Syria
The remarks by General Martin Dempsey were the first U.S. confirmation that Russia made the sale of so-called ship-killer cruise missiles to Syria. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday the missiles will embolden President Bashar al-Assad and prolong the suffering in Syria. The New York Times says the Russian anti-ship cruise missiles are more advanced than previous ...
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Dad deploys to Middle East days before twin sons graduate
BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - Bossier High School seniors Dustin and Josh Todd's father was suddenly deployed just days ago to the Middle East with the 8th Air Force. He will miss his sons' graduation ceremony in person, but thanks to small group, he won't miss the ceremony at all. Bossier high school's principal has made special arrangements for the family, making sure each ...
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Research and Markets Mobile Internet Survey in the Middle East and Africa 2013 Mobile Device and SIM Purchase and ...
"Mobile Internet Survey in the Middle East and Africa 2013: Mobile Device and SIM Purchase and Usage" report to their offering. One should not assume that because people in MEA are new to the mobile Internet, they are any less demanding than users elsewhere in terms of quality. Analysys Mason's survey of mobile Internet users in 2012-2013 in the Middle East and ...
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Doctor We Truly Are Failing The Syrian People
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Now to the medical crisis in Syria. Stephen Cornish of Doctors Without Borders Canada recently returned from Syria, and he says he cannot overstate the scale and severity of a humanitarian emergency he witnessed there. Stephen Cornish joins us now. ...
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Russia defiant over reports it is supplying ship-killing missiles to Assad
New York Times ' cited US officials saying Russia was delivering anti-ship cruise missiles upgraded with advanced radar systems to the Syrian government, which is engaged in a bloody civil war with Western-backed rebel groups.Military experts told the paper the enhanced missiles would be a "formidable weapon" if Mr Assad's forces wanted to hinder any future international ...
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Syria is now staring into the abyss of unrestrained sectarian slaughter
Damascus is now at the gates of one of the holiest sites for Shia Islam, the resting place of the grand-daughter of the prophet Mohammed.In the abandoned apartment blocks, some less than 100 yards away, fighters from ...
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Caught on video – how rebels executed 11 men
Three rebels, two of them carrying Jabhat al-Nussra flags, are shown standing behind a row of prisoners prior to executing them.A man whose face was covered in a black balaclava then shot each man in the back of the head as they kneeled on the ground.The brutal killings are believed to have taken place in the eastern province ...
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Oman desalination project approaches completion
reports that the Barka reverse osmosis desalination project, being developed by ACWA Power Barka, will make new capacity available to the Omani network by October of this year. The new plant is an expansion of the adjoining Barka I power and desalination project and will add 45,000 m³ per day of water capacity to the facility, taking Barka I’s total potable water output to 136,200 ...
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Kerry Urges Russia to Toughen Stance on Syria
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Tuesday to convince the president he needs to take a tougher stance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Putin is Assad's most powerful ally. "The United States believes that we share some very significant common interests with respect to Syria -- stability in the region, not having extremists ...
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Russian missiles to Syria upsets US
RUSSIA'S shipment of anti-ship missiles to Syria will "embolden" the regime and fuel the country's civil war, the US military's top officer ...
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Qatar Airways sued after passenger struck by wayward drinks cart
A wayward drinks cart could cost Qatar Airways a steep damages bill with a passenger alleging serious physical and psychological trauma after being struck by a trolley nearly two years ago. It's the latest in a string of legal actions to be launched against international air carriers in the last year alleging injury and mistreatment of customers by ground staff and air crew. John ...
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Soccer emerges as focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia
Soccer, alongside minority Shiite Muslims and relatives of imprisoned government critics, is emerging as a focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich kingdom that despite banning demonstrations by law is struggling to fend off the waves of change sweeping the Middle East and North ...
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UN chief regrets experts inability to visit Syria
Moscow, May 18 : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed regret over the inability of experts, investigating the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, to visit the ...
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Kerry to visit Middle East Africa in late May
US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month, the State Department announced on Friday.On May 21, Kerry will visit Muscat, the capital of Oman, and meet with senior Omani officials on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the department said in a statement.On May 22, the top US diplomat will visit Amman, the capital of Jordan, to meet ...
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IAEA chief says Iran refuses to cooperate
Iran has refused to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its controversial nuclear program, Yukiya Amano, director-general of the UN nuclear watchdog, said here on ...
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Iran president escapes attack
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday when a blast hit one of the vehicles of his cavalcade, a media report said. Iran's Press TV, however, denied the report. Al Arabiya TV reported the blast took place in the western city of Hamadan as the president was about to address a crowd. The attacker was arrested on the spot. The bomb hit a car carrying ...
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Al-Zaatari in Jordan Soon to Become World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Al-Zaatari, Jordan, the second largest refugee camp in the world, is set to become the largest by the end of this year. The camp, already home to 500,000 refugees, receives between 2,000 – 4,000 refugees on days when the violence in Syria is especially dire, and will soon overtake the Dabaab camp near the Somali-Kenyan border as the highest-populated refugee camp in the world. According to ...
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Nuclear Iran Unlikely to Tilt Regional Power Balance – Report
- A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according ...
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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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