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Around 400 drivers of the Veolia bus company have taken part in a walkout since May 14, in protest at a new shift system and the company's personnel management record. Over the past week, Veolia Transport and the union have held talks without results. The strike affects all Veolia routes from the Tuupakka and Hakunila depots. Traffic in central Vantaa has been severely affected, as well as ...
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Syria regime agrees in principle to take part in peace conference
MOSCOW // The Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States, Russia's foreign ministry said. Alexander Lukashevich, the foreign ministry spokesman, said in televised remarks that the Syrian government had "agreed in principle" to participate in the conference in Geneva which is expected within two weeks. Mr ...
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Syria’s civil war ‘likely to explode’ Annan says
Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize winner, shares a moment on stage with former Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson in Ottawa on May 23, 2013. Mr. Annan delivered a lecture at an annual event by the Global Centre for Pluralism. (COLE BURSTON FOR THE GLOBE AND ...
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Syrian state media Rebels attack prison in north
AP10ThingsToSee - In this image from amateur video obtained by a group called Ugarit News, a rebel runs from an explosion, Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Qusair, Syria. An intense battle drove rebels from large parts of Qusair, part of a withering government offensive aimed at securing a strategic land corridor from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast. (AP ...
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What to do about Syria Stay far away from it
Whether America should intervene to help end the bloodshed in Syria or leave it to others.***Ralph Peters has it right: Let the Middle East fight it out and redraw its own borders ("The Arab Collapse," PostOpinion, May 20). Maybe the result will be fewer terrorists clamoring to kill Americans, while asking for money to support their refugees. This area has been at war since the ...
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Syrian Rebels Continue To Clash With Hezbollah-Backed Forces
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Today was the fifth day in the battle for Qusayr, a small Syrian city, population normally about 30,000, that lies close to the ...
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The revolution in Syria will continue on a knife edge until it achieves the victory
Moaz Al-Khateeb is still striving like a snake to gather the betrayers from the opposition to accept the selling out of the revolution and to save the Syrian regime in response to American ...
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Analysis Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt
kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula . They were released unhurt after marathon negotiations that lasted until dawn Wednesday between a representative of military intelligence, a Salafi sheikh and a representative of the Swarka tribe, one of the largest in the peninsula.No one will guarantee it will be the last kidnapping. The official version is that no deal was struck, and it may ...
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Israel near bottom of BBC poll ranking countries
Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world's most positively viewed countries.Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a "mainly positive" or "mainly negative" influence in the ...
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Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities
British author Dr. Qanta Ahmed spoke on Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem about the difficulties for minorities in Islamic societies and how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates them.The event was organized by Alan Schneider, director of the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, and cosponsored by the Ecumenical Theological ...
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HSBCs rich pickings in Qatar
"We are number one and we are three times [the size of] number two." This is how Abdul Hakeem Mostafawi, the CEO of HSBC Qatar, positions his bank among the group of international lenders currently plying their trade in Qatar. While this statement shows a strong sense of self-belief, the hefty presence of big local banks in the market means that there is no suggestion that Mostafawi is ...
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‘We Can Blow Things Up’ America’s Power in the Middle East
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both ...
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Woolwich suspects friend died in Iraq
Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East LondonThe Ministry of Defence earlier said the soldier killed is 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Drummer Rigby had a two-year-old son and ...
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Police make two further arrests in London soldier killing
British police made two further arrests Thursday and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in ...
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Obama seeks to shape own political legacy
President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes Thursday and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be ...
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New labour law 27000 Indians apply for exit papers to leave Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia for home after a new labour policy came into force in the Gulf Kingdom. The Indian embassy here has released a second list of verification and delivery process of emergency certificates (ECs) for all Indian nationals who have applied at the embassy and at other collection centers across Saudi Arabia. "The schedule currently announced is for the second batch of delivery upto ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees in principle to conference
Russia and the United States , and criticized what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. "Damascus has expressed its readiness in principle to participate in ...
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Kerry Urgency needed in Mideast peace process
John Kerry said ahead of a second round of meetings Friday. "I am convinced, with great humility, that this moment is a critical one for the region and particularly for Israel, for Palestine and for Jordan," Kerry said before meeting with Israeli ...
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Marriott says Middle East revenues up 11 in Q1
US hotel giant Marriott International has announced that its RevPAR (revenue per available room) rose by more than 11 percent in the first quarter of ...
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Egypt rulers reconcile with ex-regime tycoons
The prosecution announced that Salem has offered to forego 75 percent of his family's wealth in Egypt, and more than half of its properties and fortune ...
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Twin blasts target military checkpoints in central Syria 2 killed
DAMASCUS, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Two car bombs went off separately at military checkpoints in Syria's central province of Homs on Sunday morning, killing at least two people and injuring many others, the pro-government Sham FM radio said. The first car targeted an army checkpoint near a factory on the Homs-al-Masharfe road, killing one soldier and a civilian, the report said. The second one ...
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Woolwich attack Suspect Michael Adebolajolost friend in Iraq Drummer Lee Rigby feared for his girlfriend in Afghanistan
ONE of the men allegedly behind the brutal slaying of soldier Lee Rigby had to himself be consoled by friends in 2007 after a soldier mate was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East London The ...
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Salman Khurshid leaves for Saudi Arabia
Salman Khurshid's visit comes at a time when a number of Indians are leaving Saudi Arabia as a result of the Kingdom's Nitaqat programme, which is meant to regularise foreign ...
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Syria needs Britains help but it does not need our weapons
William Hague this week in the House of Commons, this policy is as follows. The government has not decided to send arms to the "good guys" among the rebels, but it wants the flexibility to do so and in the meantime it believes that not to renew the EU embargo would send a powerful signal to President Bashar al-Assad.Like many fallacies it is superficially attractive, especially when ...
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Obama does not foresee U.S. ground troops in Syria
Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said here Friday he does "not foresee" a circumstance under which Washington would send ground troops to war-torn Syria. "I do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in Syria -- American boots on the ground. (It) would not only be good for America but also would be good for Syria," Obama said at a news conference in the Costa ...
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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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