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Turkeys TAV to bid for Kuwait Bahrain airport contracts
Middle East director Yusuf Akcayoglu told Construction Week the company is waiting for the release of tender documents for the new passenger terminal building project at Kuwait International Airport and for the Bahrain Airport expansion ...
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Iran bans two election candidates
Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili. Mr Jalili is one of eight approved candidates in the upcoming election. Photograph: Osman ...
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UPDATE 1-Irans Ahmadinejad says will challenge allys ban from election
Wed May 22, 2013 3:12am EDT (Adds quotes, context) DUBAI May 22 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would take up the ban of his close aide from the June 14 presidential election with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported. Iran's electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad's former chief of ...
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Major diplomatic push underway over Syria
A major diplomatic push is underway for negotiations to end the civil war in Syria. International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says both government and opposition are ready to meet in Geneva in June. However President Bashar al-Assad has already poured scorn on the idea. Plans for the talks will be announced in Jordan on Wednesday. Speaking in Cairo, former Syrian National Coalition President ...
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Virtual Job Fair for The Middle East
Monster Gulf, an online career and recruitment solutions providers in the region announced its Virtual Job Fair for The Middle East, taking place from 26th – 30th ...
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Egypt TV 7 security personnel kidnapped in Sinai freed
Egyptian soldiers deployed at Rafah Crossing border between Egypt and Gaza Strip on May 21, 2013 as Cairo was intensifying efforts to secure release of seven security personnel captured in Sinai Peninsula week ...
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Top figures barred from Irans presidential ballot
Iran's election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of ...
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Israel-Syria Border War Heats Up
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Israel and Syria have been engaged in an increasinglybitter border war. Western diplomatic sources said Israeli and Syrian forces were battlingon a nearly daily basis along the Golan Heights. They said the fighting oftenbegan with Syrian Army or proxy attacks on Israel Army outposts and ...
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U.S. Tests Enhanced Interceptor
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has been testing an enhancedballistic missile interceptor. The U.S. military has overseen the launch of the latest variant of theStandard Missile 3, or SM-3, interceptor employed in the sea-based Aegisdefense system. The military said the new SM-3 Block IB underwent its finaldevelopmental test before serial production for the U.S. ...
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Irans presidential election registration wraps up
BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The five-day candidate registration period of Iran's June 14th presidential election has wrapped up. Over 680 candidates, including Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi-Raf-san-jani, close aide to the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Es-fan-diar Rahim Masha-ei and Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the secretary of the country's Supreme ...
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Israel warns Assad over action in Golan Heights
Israel's army chief said that Bashar al-Assad would suffer heavy consequences if he destabilised the Golan Heights, in one of the most explicit warnings yet to the Syrian leader by a public official. The comments came after a night that saw Israel fire into Syria following an attack on one of its military ...
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U.S. congressional delegation expected shortly in Lebanon
A U.S. congressional delegation is scheduled to arrive in Beirut within few days to hold talks with senior officials over the situation in Lebanon and the region, according to a report by al-Joumhouria newspaper published on ...
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Hunger poverty rates rise in Egypt over the past three years UN
New York, May 22 : Poverty and food insecurity in Egypt have risen significantly over the last three years, according to a joint reports released Tuesday by the United Nations food agency and ...
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Greater resources needed to improve health of Palestinian refugees UN
New York, May 22 : Health programmes carried out by the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees has helped to improve their lives, but greater efforts and more resources are needed to effectively tackle health challenges, particularly during times of conflict, says a new ...
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11 Palestinians died under PA Hamas detention
Eleven Palestinians have died in Palestinian Authority and Hamas detention centers during 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the Palestinian Independent Commission For Human Rights.Two of the Palestinians died in PA detention centers in the West Bank, while the nine others died in Hamas custody in the Gaza ...
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Egyptian army says security officers kidnapped in Sinai released
Sinai last week have been released and are on their way to Cairo, army spokesman Ahmed Ali said on his Facebook page on Wednesday."The seven kidnapped Egyptian soldiers are on their way to Cairo after their release thanks to the efforts of the Egyptian military intelligence in coordination with the elders of the tribes and families of Sinai," he ...
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US slams Irans disqualification of candidates
The United States on Tuesday condemned Iran's disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidentialcandidates, accusing the "unaccountable" clerical leadership of seeking to tighten its grip on ...
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Qatar wins green light for London Shell Centre
Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has secured local government approval to build almost 900 homes and eight office blocks at the site of Royal Dutch Shell's London ...
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Russia Offers Turkey S-300 Project
MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia has offered to develop an advanced variant of theS-300 long-range air defense system. Officials said the Kremlin has been discussing defense and militarycooperation that would include a partnership in the development of advancedair defense systems. They said the state-owned Rosoboronexport submitted aproposal for a joint project to produce an enhanced variant of the ...
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Yossi Beilin Allow Hizbullah to be armed to the teeth as long as do notshoot
Yossi Beilin: Allow Hizbullah to be armed to the teeth as long as do not shoot Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 22 May 2013 In a live interview broadcast on the morning news magazine program of Israel Radio this morning, Yossi Beilin told anchor Aryeh Golan that until now Israel took the operative position to effectively allow Hizbullah to receive rockets and that as a result it now has tens of ...
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UPDATE 1-S.Koreas Iran crude imports for April down 44.4 pct yy
Wed May 22, 2013 1:41am EDT * Crude imports from Iran in April at 4.18 mln bbls -data * Iranian imports for month below expectations * Total April crude imports at 69.12 mln bbls, down 5.6 pct y/y * Dec 2012-April 2013 Iran crude imports at 157,596 bpd (Adds details) By Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters) - South Korea's imports of Iranian crude in April fell nearly 45 percent from a year ...
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Iran Hezbollah role in Syria complicates peace strategy
As evidence grows of increased Iranian support for the Syrian government, the Obama administration's strategy to bring the bitter fighting there to a close faces more challenges than ever. With White House support, Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed for an international conference in Geneva in June that would bring representatives of the Syria government together with the ...
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Lebanese Syrians protest Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria
A number of Lebanese and Syrian nationals held a demonstration on Tuesday in the Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut to protest against Hezbollah's intervention in the al-Qusair battles in Syria, LBCI reported on ...
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Hundreds killed in upsurge of terror bombings sectarian killings in Iraq
A wave of violence is shaking the neo-colonial Iraqi regime that emerged from the US war and occupation of Iraq, as sectarian tensions between Iraq's bourgeois factions are inflamed by the savage US-led proxy war in neighbouring Syria.In this past week, more than 200 people have been killed in car bomb attacks in a number of Iraqi cities. The worst violence was in Baghdad, where car bombs ...
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Israel US threatens war with Syria as sectarian fighting spreads across region
Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire across the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights yesterday, amid rising US and Israeli threats of intervention in the US-led sectarian proxy war in Syria, which is rapidly spreading throughout the region. Fighting in the Golan Heights started overnight when Syrian forces fired at an Israeli vehicle that allegedly crossed into Syrian territory. Israeli ...
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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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