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Saudi Arabia detains 10 more in Iran spying case
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 10 more people in a spying case it announced in March that it said was linked to Iran, state television reported on ...
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Coronavirus claims another life in Saudi Arabia Tunisia announces 3 cases
Saudi Arabia , but one of the patients in the Eastern Region died yesterday, bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths in the Kingdom to 16. And Tunisia's Health Ministry announced today three cases of the deadly virus, including one ...
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AP Source Michael Jordan changing team name to Hornets
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is changing his team's name to the Hornets, said a person familiar with the situation.The person said Jordan will detail the timetable for the change to be completed at a press conference the Bobcats have scheduled for Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the name change has not ...
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Reports boost speculation that Iran has barred 2 prominent figures from presidential ballot
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian news websites have boosted speculation that election overseers have barred two prominent but divisive figures from next month's presidential ballot. The hardline website Tasnimnews.com says the Guardian Council has rejected former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close confidant of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The ...
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Blood of Iraqi Ambassador sanctioned in Jordan
Revenge assaults, calls for expulsion of Iraqi ambassador emerge after attack on Jordanian activists, including lawyers at hands of cadres of Iraqi ...
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Irans candidate list expected Wednesday
The final list of candidates allowed to compete in the June 14 Iranian presidential elections is to be released Wednesday, an interior minister said. More than 600 candidates registered to compete in the presidential race. Iranian nationals with political or clerical credentials are eligible to register, though the 12-member Guardian Council has the final say on candidates. Deputy Interior ...
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Bombings in northern Iraq kill more than a dozen people
Bombings across northern Iraq Tuesday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, officials said. In Tarmiya, which is predominantly Sunni, a man detonated a suicide vest at a checkpoint, killing three soldiers and wounded seven others, CNN reported. Five people died and 43 others were wounded when a car bomb exploded in a Shiite Turkmen neighborhood in Tuz Khurmato, police said. In ...
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Egypt students protest keosene smell in beans
Dozens of students at Al-Azhar University in Egypt said that they smelled kerosene in beans served for dinner in the school's dormitories The students protested Monday after dinner, Ahram Online reported. An official from the university said initial tests didn't indicate any contamination and that the smell may have come from the gas stove on which the beans were cooked. The ...
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Syrian Army fires across border into Israel to retaliate for airstrikes
An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade sleeps as others, seen through a black netting, pray close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, two weeks ago. The Israeli military confirmed Tuesday that their soldiers 'returned precise fire' after Syria fired on Israeli troops in the Golan Heights, former Syrian territory that Israel annexed ...
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Afghan police kill 18 Taliban fighters
Afghan police in conjunction with the army and NATO-led troops have killed 18 Taliban militants during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Sunday. "Units of national police backed by the army and NATO-led coalition have carried out nine operations in Kunduz, Baghlan, Laghman, Khost, Zabul and Kandahar ...
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Iranians face new Internet curbs before presidential election
By Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians are struggling with slower Internet speeds and limited access ahead of an unpredictable presidential election that has put hardline Islamist authorities on alert for possible unrest.Experts and web users say they believe the Internet obstacles are related to the June 14 presidential vote, the first since 2009 polls in which accusations of fraud - ...
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Israel says talks stalemate harmful for Israel as Palestinian narrative gains traction
JERUSALEM // Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians said yesterday the current stalemate was harmful for Israel. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest". She spoke days before the US secretary of state John Kerry was expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...
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In confronting Iran John Baird stands in the way of real solutions
the speech that Foreign Minister John Baird gave to the Global Dialogue on Iran's Future last week in Toronto. Stock markets would have tanked; diplomats would be booking one-way flights out of Tehran and Iran would be warming up its ballistic ...
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Letter Turkey and Syria A Slippery Slope
Regarding the article ...
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Sharp rise in number of Afghan women put in prison for moral crimes
Running away from home, usually from abuse and forced marriage, and alleged adultery, which often involves rape, have landed most of the 600 women in prison. That figure is an increase of 50 percent over the last 18 months."That increase reflects a shameful lack and failure of political will by both the government ...
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Iraq At least 12 dead in bombings as sectarian violence continues
An Iraqi looks at dead sheep killed in two roadside bombs that detonated in a livestock market in the northern city of Kirkuk, on May 21, 2013. (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty ...
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Israel Destroys Syrian Army Post
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire along Israel's northern border overnight Monday, with the IDF scoring a direct hit that destroyed the Syrian army post. There were no injuries, but a military vehicle was lightly damaged. "Overnight, shots were fired at an IDF patrol on the border in the central Golan Heights, damaging a military vehicle," the IDF ...
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Israel Vows to Prevent Weapons to Hezbollah
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel is vowing to keep up its attacks to prevent advanced weapons reaching Hezbollah via Syria. In meetings earlier this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear Israel would continue to monitor and act against the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah. Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's warning of an ...
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Hezbollah elite troops pour into Syria as battle for Qusayr rages
A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on May 20, 2013, allegedly shows a Syrian soldier scanning the area for hostiles in the the town of Qusayr in Homs province (SANA / AFP) Three members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory ...
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Algerian prime minister says President Bouteflika convalescing
Bouteflika has been neither heard nor seen in public, raising widespread speculation that he is seriously ailing. France's Le Point magazine said Bouteflika, who was treated for cancer in 2005, was in very poor health, with some of his vital functions damaged. Algerian newspaper ...
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Iraq Reopens Russian Arms Deal Probe
DUBAI, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's Central Criminal Court has resumed an investigation into officials suspected of corruption in a $4.2 billion deal to purchase Russian weapons, the head of the Iraqi Parliament's Integrity Committee, Bahaa al-Araji, said on Tuesday."The investigation will go ahead. The witnesses and suspects will give evidence, and Defense Ministry experts will ...
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Jordan keeps out Syrian refugees in border clampdown
Syria on Wednesday, has already taken in 473,587 Syrians out of a total of 1.5 million who have fled the conflict in an exodus that has accelerated in the past four months, U.N. figures show. All four unofficial crossing points used by refugees trying to escape bombardments in the southern province of Deraa have been closed for the past six days, refugees and aid workers say, although the ...
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Five Yemenis executed in Saudi Arabia
23/05/2012 14:03 CET Saudi Arabia has executed five Yemenis accused for killing a Saudi national and committing robberies in several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry stated. The five men were executed in the southwestern town of Jizan and their bodies were displayed in public, near a university, according to an eyewitness. In a photo uploaded in Twitter, five men are seen hanging ...
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Massive tornado Obama declares major disaster in Oklahoma
Rescuers searched for survivors Tuesday after a massive tornado tore through a suburb in the US state of Oklahoma, destroying two schools and killing up to 91 people, including 20 ...
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Ahlam I plan to be Arab Worlds Oprah Winfrey
Speaking as a panellist at the last session of the two-day meet Ahlam Al Shamsi, host of ...
Cairo Discussed
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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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