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Lebanon leaning toward parliament term extension
Lebanon Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is making contacts with key politicians in the country to negotiate a formula to extend the Parliament's term between six months to two years after parliamentary subcommittee meetings to devise a new electoral law for next month's elections reached a dead end, according to local media reports ...
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Emirates NBDs set to price Tier 1 bond issue
Emirates NBD plans to price its first core capital-boosting bond on Wednesday, arranging banks said, amid strong demand for the imminent deal. Price guidance for the perpetual bond, meaning it has no fixed maturity date but cannot be redeemed before six years at least, was set at 6 per cent on Wednesday morning, after indications of the low 6 per cent area released on Tuesday. There is a 50 ...
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SNC urges world to stop Hezbollah Iran invasion of Qusair
Iran invasion of Qusair.In a statement, Acting SNC chief George Sabra called on the U.N. Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to address the "violations" of Syrian's sovereignty and the lives of its ...
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Israel Reinstates Gaza Fishing Zone
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel eased restrictions on the Gaza Strip by allowing Palestinian Arab fisherman to fish further off the coast, the government announced. The Israeli navy monitors the waters off the Gaza coast to prevent terror elements from using fishing boats to smuggle weapons or other contraband to Hamas Islamists ruling the Strip. Israel has kept particularly tight control over the ...
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Dubais Emirates NBD launches $1bn bond
Emirates NBD launched a $1bn core capital-boosting bond on Wednesday, amid healthy demand, allowing the Dubai lender to tighten earlier price ...
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Oman Air places order for Airbus planes
The order will grow the airline's A330 fleet to a total of 10 Airbus aircraft. The aircraft will be operated on long haul routes and will seat close to 300 passengers, Airbus said in a ...
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Emirates to increase flights to Colombo from 30th June
Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from 30th June 2013, with the addition of three more flights per week, the airline announced ...
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Rent up 30 in Saudi Arabia
It is expected that the rents of apartments in the south and east of Jeddah to drop In a surprising move, rent prices for apartments and villas shot up by 30 percent, according to real estate experts.Experts say the rent hikes were due to rising costs of building and renovation, and the increase in the wages of workers in the construction and management of building. In Jeddah, for example, it is ...
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Ukraine Evacuates Six Nationals from Syria
KIEV, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Six Ukrainian nationals were evacuated from Syria and returned to Kiev on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. "These individuals were evacuated via Lebanese territory, and subsequently flown to Ukraine on a regular Beirut-Kiev flight," the ministry said in a statement. Ukraine has evacuated more than 500 of its citizens from Syria ...
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Exporting Peru to the World Road Show to Visit Middle East and Europe
LIMA, Peru, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Peru, one of the world's fastest growing emerging economies, will next week embark on a major international road show with the goal of promoting greater inward investment from foreign markets. The tour will see a 35 strong Peruvian delegation led by senior government ministers and business executives from the worlds of politics, banking and ...
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April Iran oil imports drop 34.2 per cent vs March
The high current account deficit will persist as long as we live in a world of low growth - that hurts our exports - and easy global liquidity, which pumps up the oil import ...
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Turbulence drama injures 13 on Emirates flight
A number of passengers and crew on an Emirates Airline flight from Dubai to Jakarta sustained minor to serious injuries after the aircraft was caught in heavy ...
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Egypt Security Officers Kidnappers Must be Pursued and Captured
Cairo - Supreme Guide of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, extended his greetings to President Mohamed Mursi, the Armed Forces and the Bedouins of Sinai on Wednesday for their efforts in releasing the seven kidnapped security officers. Badie stressed through his Twitter account the necessity to hold the perpetrators of this abduction accountable. "Congratulations to the ...
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NYT Russia sends missiles to aid Syrias Assad
WASHINGTON — Russia has sent advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, American officials said Thursday. Russia has previously provided a version of the missiles, called Yakhonts, to Syria. But those delivered recently are outfitted with an advanced radar that makes them ...
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Iraq apologises to Jordan over Saddam backers beating
Iraqi FM says his government will open investigation into beating of Jordanian supporters of Saddam by employees at Baghdad's embassy at seminar in ...
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Sectarian clashes rage in Lebanons Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - At least four people have been killed in clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a security source said, as fighting raged into a fourth day on ...
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Turkeys Syria Dilemma Grows
Two years after explicitly calling for regime change in neighboring Syria, the Turkish leaders find themselves in the unsavory position of dealing with spillover conflict, growing internal opposition, policy disagreements with Washington and, above all, the prospect of Bashar al-Assad's survival despite all the external efforts to topple him, ...
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Commentary Israel Crises 360 degrees
John Kerry , on his fourth visit to the Middle East in two months, is chasing the brass ring of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement for the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Kerry's single most important foreign policy goal is solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that dates to the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan ...
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Excerpts Iranian Guardian Council power. Iranians join Hizbullah in
Excerpts: Iranian Guardian Council power. Iranians join Hizbullah in Syria battle May 22, 2013 +++SOURCE: Naharnet (Lebanon) 22 ...
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Syria opposition urges rebels to join Qusayr battle
Syria’s opposition urged fighters across the country Wednesday to ';rush to the rescue'; of rebel stronghold Qusayr, while appealing to the international community to set up a humanitarian corridor to the embattled town. Syria’s acting National Coalition opposition chief George Sabra issued the call for rebel reinforcements to the town as Syrian troops backed by fighters ...
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad to contest poll barring of his ally
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month’s presidential ...
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad says he’ll challenge ally’s ban from election
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a media conference on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 26, 2012. (BRENDAN ...
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Life in Jordans desert city
Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp is home to 170,000 people from Syria who have fled the fighting. While camps are the more visible part of the refugee crisis, the majority of refugees in Jordan live in towns and cities where they face different problems. Rents have tripled over the past six months as landlords cash in on the new demand for housing. Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang visited ...
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Iran Ahmadinejad to contest bar on ally
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit out at a decision to disqualify a close ally from a vote to elect his successor, while former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had no objections to his own omission. The conservative-dominated Guardians Council on Tuesday eliminated both Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie and Rafsanjani from a list of eight candidates for the June 14 poll, and those ...
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Diplomats Iran expands nuke technology
Herman Nackaerts, left, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, shakes hands with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. U.N. nuclear agency officials are meeting with Iranian counterparts in a renewed attempt ...
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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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