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Solar power brightens Oman oil output prospects
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and US GlassPoint Solar have commissioned the Middle East's first solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, the project partners said on ...
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Saudi Arabia Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ amid ‘disturbing’ rise in executions
Saudi Arabia must halt a "disturbing" rise in death penalty usage that has resulted in at least 47 state killings in the country already this year, Amnesty International urged after six more people were executed today.Five Yemeni men were beheaded and "crucified" this morning in the city of Jizan, while a Saudi Arabian man was executed in the south-western city of ...
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Fears for safety of human rights lawyer abducted in Syria
A prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who went missing this weekend after an apparent abduction is at grave risk of abuse, Amnesty International has said. Abdullah al-Khalil, who became head of the local council for al-Raqqa Governorate after armed opposition groups took control in March 2013, was reportedly taken away by unidentified armed individuals as he left his office in the north-eastern ...
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World Bank to announce funds for Syria refugee influx
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank plans to announce substantial new funds to help Jordan cope with the influx of refugees from the civil war in neighbouring Syria, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told Reuters on ...
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Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad ally disqualified from Iran election report
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential election, state media reported on ...
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First sea turtle nest spotted at Saadiyat Beach
ABU DHABI - The Environmental Services team at the Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi, has spotted the first sea turtle nest on Saadiyat Island, marking the start of this year's nesting ...
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Brotherhood government urges Egyptians to ration electricity
CAIRO - Egypt's Electricity Ministry on Tuesday urged citizens to cut down on summertime use of electricity in hopes of reducing need for periodic power ...
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Saudi Arabia arrests more ‘Iran spy ring’ suspects
Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report. Those detained include eight Saudis, a Turk, and a Lebanese citizen. Eighteen people were arrested in the same case in ...
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Attacks push Iraq closer to sectarian war
Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others injured yesterday. Casualty figures are returning to a level not seen since the civil war of 2006-07. Most of the car bombings yesterday targeted markets, bus stops and other places crowded with civilians. Ten car bombs killed 46 ...
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Spain backs sending weapons to Syria rebels for defense
Spain said Tuesday it favors a partial lifting of sanctions against Syria that would allow the delivery of "defense material" -- that could include weapons to help protect the ...
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Greater efforts resources needed to improve health of Palestinian refugees - UN report
Print 21 May 2013 – 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 report. ';There is no doubt we still have considerable ways to go to realize our ...
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Dubais Emirates NBD launches social network for entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs , as Dubai's biggest bank makes a Dh2 billion bet on the UAE's small businesses. The bank hopes to draw in new customers with the launch of Rise, a social network that is best described as an equivalent ...
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Qatar banks size up UAE and global investments
Qatar National Bank and Commercial Bank International, its UAE affiliate, on Tuesday lent US$350 million to Air Arabia, the Sharjah low-cost carrier. Emre Rende for The ...
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New Egypt tax law cuts for poor business hikes
CAIRO -; Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized ...
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India leads Asian cuts in imports of Iranian oil ahead of waiver review
India has cut Iranian oil imports by almost one-fifth since December, the sharpest cut among Asian buyers, in a move that should increase its chances of winning a new US waiver next month on sanctions targeting oil trade with Iran.Sanctions imposed by the US and Europe to force a halt to a controversial nuclear program that Tehran says is for peaceful purposes saw Iran's oil exports more ...
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Saudi princes accused of laundering for Hezbollah
LONDON - Two Saudi princes on Tuesday sought to extricate themselves from a London legal battle with a Jordanian businessman who accuses them of laundering money for Hezbollah, an allegation their lawyer called "fanciful".Prince Mishal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a brother of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, and his son Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishal, had previously argued they had ...
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Saudis execute five men and put corpses on display
Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis today for robbery and murder, then put their bodies on public display as a further punishment, state news agency SPA ...
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10 more Iranians detained by Saudis in spying case
"Initial investigation carried out by the authorities led to the detention of 10 others for involvement in spying activities," state television news channel al-Ekhbariya reported, citing the Interior Ministry.It said the new group includes eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk. In March Turki said Saudi security forces had arrested 18 people, including 16 Saudis, an Iranian and a ...
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Middle East North Africa - Restricting speech restricts Arab freedom
The sight of hundreds of thousands of Arabs marching on the streets of a number of Arab countries, demanding their dignity and rights, will remain among the iconic images of the twenty-first century. The willingness of so many citizens to take such tremendous risks to their own lives, with thousands dying for their freedom, stunned a world long accustomed to the image of the resigned, ...
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Qualcomm CEO We seek Israels technology leaders
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs, currently in Israel, spoke about the chipmaker's strategy at a press conference today at Qualcomm Israel's R&D center in Haifa. The message around the visit was the upgrading of importance of Qualcomm Israel's R&D center to one of Qualcomm's major strategic centers. Jacobs said that the company had no clear plans to expand ...
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Syria claims destroyed vehicle inside its territory
Mount Hermon is seen in the background as Israeli soldiers travel on mobile artillery units after an exercise on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria in this February 14, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Baz ...
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Academy forward Jordan Morris on U.S. U-20 roster for pre-World Cup tournament
made the squad. The U.S., grouped with Colombia, Congo DR and host France, will be in action starting May 28 in Toulon, France, as both preparation for this summer’s FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey and one last evaluation toward that final roster. Morris, a Mercer Island native, is one of three academy players nationwide to make the team and had starred in a training camp earlier this year ...
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Kerry in Oman to help ink $2.1b defence deal
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived inOmanon Tuesday aiming to help finalise an estimated $2.1 billion deal to supply a US-made air-defence system to the Gulf ...
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Israelis Calm Despite Heightened Syria Tensions
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Tensions were running high on Monday, but Israelis were calm after Syria threatened Israel with retaliation for airstrikes on advanced weapons some say were headed for Hezbollah. Alleged Israeli airstrikes on targets near Damascus are a declaration of war, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad ...
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Bahrain-UAE Officials Hold Preparatory Meetings
Abu Dhabi-May-21(BNA) Senior officials' from the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates committee meetings took place today at the UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare for the meetings of the Higher Committee. Bahrain's delegation was chaired by Ambassador Hamad Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Amer, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Regional Cooperation and ...
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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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