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Excerpts Safe exit for Assad proposed.AFP re Obama.Arab League re
Excerpts: Safe exit for Assad proposed.AFP re Obama.Arab League re Syria May 24, 2013 +++SOURCE: Saudi Gazette 24 ...
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PMW Bulletin PA daily Palestinians are Jesus descendants
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: It is this simple: under the rules of the PA, it would be a capital offense to sell real estate to Jesus.] PMW Bulletin May 17, 2013 Official PA daily: "Palestinians [are] Jesus' descendants" and "Jesus' story is his [Palestinian] people's story" "Jesusthe virtuous patriotic Palestinian forefather brought forth his ...
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NGO Monitor Church of Scotland Fails to Correct a Terrible Wrong
PRESS RELEASE May 19, 2013 Contact: Lenny Ben-David NGO Monitor 054-216-8155 lenny.bendavid@ngo-monitor.org Church of Scotland's "revision" is no step forward Church should cut ties with religiously intolerant Sabeel organization Jerusalem - The Church of Scotland's "revision" of its April report "The Inheritance Of Abraham? A Report On The ...
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Boy not killedIsrael Government Review France 2 Al-Durrah Report its Consequences and Implications
Contrary to the report's claim that the boy is killed, the committee's review of the raw footage showed that in the final scenes, which were not broadcast by France 2, the boy is seen to be alive. [For a copy of the complete report: http://bit.ly/15YM5zS ] Publication of the Report of the Government Review Committee Regarding the France 2 Al-Durrah Report, its Consequences and ...
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Cabinet Approves Establishment of Two Committees to Strengthen EconomicCooperation with China
Cabinet Approves Establishment of Two Committees to Strengthen Economic Cooperation with China (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) The Cabinet, at its weekly meeting today (Sunday, 19 May 2013), approved the establishment of two committees the goal of which is to formulate an action plan for strengthening economic ties between Israel and China, as well as increase ...
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The Devil We Know Revisited Israeli Thinking on the Future of the AssadRegime
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: This article was written before the IDF Spokesman challenged the veracity of the Times of London quote (copy below) "Since I know the positions of the Intelligence Branch regarding events in Syria, I find the quotation is not reliable. I would even say ...
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Syria opposition seeks to unify ahead of peace talks
Syria’s fractious opposition scrambled to agree a new leadership on Friday in a bid to present a coherent front at peace talks which the United States and Russia are convening to seek an end to more than two years of civil war. A major assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on a rebel held town over the past week is shaping into a pivotal battle. It has drawn in fighters from ...
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Suleiman cautions Hezbollah over its role in Syria
On the occasion marking the Resistance and Liberation Day , Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman cautioned the Shiite group Hezbollah on Friday over its militia fighting alongside the regime troops in neighboring Syria : "The resistance is more noble and more important than anything, and should ...
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Kerry Urges Hard Decisions After Meetings with Israeli Palestinians
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) waves as he stands next to Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat before his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah May 23, ...
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Gender pay gap in Middle East between 20-40
DEAD SEA, JORDAN // Bringing female workers' pay closer in line with their male colleagues in the Middle East and North Africa is exercising the minds of delegates at the World Economic Forum as estimates put the pay gap at between 20 and 40 per cent. Getting women into the workforce has long been a challenge for policymakers in a region where levels of female joblessness are generally ...
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Qatar drops bid to move civil aviation body ICAO from Montreal
Qatar has dropped a bid to move the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization from Montreal to Doha, Canadian and ICAO officials said on Friday.Qatar last month proposed that the organization leave Montreal, where it has been based since it was created as a UN agency since 1947."Pleased to confirm Qatar has withdrawn its bid to move ICAO HQ from Montreal," Canadian ...
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3 al-Qaida members 2 soldiers dead in Yemen clash
SANAA, Yemen -; A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers ...
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Canada Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency
TORONTO -; Canada's foreign minister says Qatar has abandoned its bid relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Montreal to the tiny ...
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He should get a Nobel Prize’ - Stories from Yemens National Dialogue -
National Dialogue , the comprehensive conference that is meant to come up with solutions for Yemen’s many problems over the next five months. They sigh when asked how things are going. There are delays in most of the working groups, including Baraa’s (reconciliation and transitional ...
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Yemens Main Oil Pipeline Blown up Again
Saboteurs blew up part of Yemen's main Marib-Ras Isa oil pipeline Friday, halting the flow of crude, the country's defense ministry said. Subversive elements blew up the pipeline in Serwah district in central Maarib province east of the capital, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website. The pipeline carries about 120,000 barrels of oil a day from the Marib fields to Ras ...
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Syria Denounces Health Situation in Occupied Golan
Damascus, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Syrian Health Minister Saad al-Nayef denounced the poor health situation of citizens settled in the Golan area annexed by Israel, due to the inhumane practices of their occupiers. He also criticized the forced subjection of Syrians detained in the area to pharmaceutical experiments and various forms of torture by Israeli authorities. Al-Nayef explained these ...
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Palestinian President Receives U.S. U.K. Foreign Ministers
4 de mayo de 2013, 09:55 Ramallah, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received, separately and consecutively, the Foreign Secretaries of the U.S., John Kerry, and the United Kingdom, William Hague, official sources announced today. The Palestinian president's meeting with Kerry lasted more than two hours, the sources stated, and the U.S. diplomat gave a detailed ...
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Increased Number of Displaced Syrians Returning from Jordan
Damascus, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Increasing numbers of Syrians displaced by the conflict in their country are voluntarily returning to their homeland from Jordan, national media are emphasizing here today. Based on reports from authorities in the neighboring country, the official news channel said on Friday that in recent days at least 645 people entered the country from the Hashemite Kingdom. ...
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President of Iran congratulates Ilham Aliyev on Republican Day
1news.az reports with reference to the official website for the President of Azerbaijan that the letter says: "I would like to extend my cordial congratulations to you, your country and people on the national holiday of Azerbaijan. Considering the old wonderful relations between Iran and Azerbaijan, I am confident about the further expansion and strengthening of these ties in the ...
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Assad Regime Agrees To Attend Peace Conference Russia Says
Representatives of President Bashar Assad's regime have agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference aimed at ending more ...
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Iranian Council Ex-President Rafsanjani Unfit To Run Again
The Iranian presidential election is just weeks away, and voters are faced with a very narrow range of pro-regime candidates to choose from. All the high-profile or independent candidates have been eliminated by the Guardian Council. One man considered unfit to run has already held the post of ...
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Iran denies its forces in Syria supporting President Assads army
International News: One day after foreign backers of the Syrian leader's rebel foes demanded Tehran withdraw its fighters from the country's territory, Iran on Friday denied it has forces in Syria supporting President Bashar Assad's ...
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Hamas Israel poisoned Gaza patients with gas
Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.Four Palestinian patients were reportedly poisoned by the carbon monoxide ...
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Israel to Issue Tenders for Two New Ports by July
Yisrael Katz, Israel's transportation minister, has announced that tenders for the construction and operation of two new ports will be issued by July ...
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Bahrain - Joint appeal to U.N. protests torture of detained rights defenders in Bahrain
The following is a joint appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs calling for an investigation to torture in Bahraini prisons. The appeal, signed by over 50 NGOs, was initiated by the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights that was signed from NGOs worldwide:UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendezand UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...
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Cairo leading new wave in literature
The publishing industry in Cairo is undergoing a profound change that may have implications for the day-to-day life of Egyptians for years to come, it is a kind of revolution in literature that may one day put Cairo on the map, nestled among those other publishing powerhouses, New York, London, and Chicago primarily, but also regional publishing centers like Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Sydney.
Cairo is already a literature producing city, but it is more commonly associated with Arabic texts, and these pieces of literature are further associated with sweeping assessments of society, societal change, politics and religion on a macrocosmic level. Traditionally, there has also never been much of a local market for literature in Cairo or wider Egypt, leading to an old saying that books are written in Cairo, but published in Beirut and then read in Baghdad. Read more
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