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Romney helps people in hurricane-hit area
With less than a week to go before Election Day, Mitt Romney -- after several days dominated by talk of Hurricane Sandy -- will try to make the most of the few campaign days he has left. His campaign ramps back up Wednesday after canceling events and dialing back rhetoric because of the superstorm. Romney held an event at an arena here Tuesday that was initially scheduled as a rally, but the ...
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Rockets hit Hizbollahs Beirut stronghold with warning Keep your hands off Syria
ISTANBUL // Two rockets hit Hizbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut yesterday, marking a dangerous new phase in Syria's civil war. The attack on the Beirut suburb of Chiyah was limited in scale - four Syrian labourers were wounded and some windows were smashed - but its implications could be far reaching. It was the first time the Hizbollah-dominated area has been attacked, ...
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9 people killed 36 wounded in Iraqs violence
Nine people were killed and 36 wounded in bombings and shootings in northern and central Iraq on Sunday, the police said.In one attack, two soldiers and a policeman were killed and 30 others wounded in two explosions near the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.The first one occurred inside an under-construction house in the town of Shora near Mosul, a local police ...
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West aware of peaceful nature of Irans nuclear program
An Iranian presidential candidate said Sunday that "the West is aware of peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear activities."However, the Westerners do not intend to publicize it for some "deliberate" reasons, the Iranian lawmaker, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, told reporters without elaboration."In our eyes, there is no ambiguity in (Iran's) nuclear program, " ...
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Bahrain justice Charges upheld against protesters but cops acquitted of murder
Protest A Bahraini appeals court acquitted two policemen and reduced a jail term for another accused of killing anti-regime protesters in 2011. However, it confirmed jail sentences to protesters charged with attacking police forces. The two acquitted police officers faced charges of shooting dead an anti-regime protester in November 2011, AFP reported.In a separate case the court cut a 7 year ...
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Russia opposes the initiatives of the west to create a no-fly zone over Syria the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Tuesday. Unfortunately these destructive ideas keep popping up over time but no one ever bothered to think a
Russia opposes the initiatives of the west to create a no-fly zone over Syria, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, these destructive ideas keep popping up over time, but no one ever bothered to think about the consequences," said Gatilov. It is worth mentioning that on March 19, the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty ...
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Whats Changed Since U.S. Last Moved Detainees To Yemen
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President also pledged to resume detainee transfers out of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. At least 88 of the 166 detainees still being held at Guantanamo are from Yemen. Fifty-six of them have already been cleared for release, but they are still ...
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Syria says it will attend peace talks as anti-Assad opposition debates next steps
ISTANBUL, Turkey - For a fourth day, Syria’s fractured opposition spent Sunday haggling over how to expand their coalition, even as Syrian President Bashar Assad unveiled two new initiatives – accepting an invitation to send representatives to a peace conference to end the 26-month uprising and announcing that Syria would open its borders to “tourists” from Iraq, a move ...
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Analysis Beirut rocket attack on Hezbollah a turning point
Attack on group's stronghold in south Beirut marks turning point in Syrian war and clearest signal yet that the conflict is likely to escalate and spread to Lebanon, already on a knife's edge due to sectarian ...
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Syrian civil war may be spilling into Lebanon
There are new fears on Sunday that the conflict in Syria could be spilling over into Lebanon after two rockets exploded in Beirut. NBC's Richard Engel ...
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Report Rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel no immediate word on damage
BEIRUT - A rocket was fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel late Sunday night, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported. The news agency said the rocket was fired from a location near the southern town of Marjayoun, about six miles (10 kilometres) north of the Israeli border. It was not immediately clear who fired the rocket or whether it caused any damage or casualties. The ...
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Video Syrian conflict spilling into Lebanon
Syria's ongoing civil war is spilling into neighboring Lebanon. Gun battles raged in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, where 25 people have been killed in recent days. Militant group Hezbollah vows to back the Assad ...
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Video Vietnam vet walks for those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan
In the town of Murphys, Calif., a Vietnam veteran walks to raise money for the most recent generation of veterans -- those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Carter Evans ...
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Anglican Catholic Leaders Appeal for Peace in Syria
"Our prayers also go with the ancient communities of our Christian brothers and sisters in Syria"LONDON, April 26, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is a joint statement from Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Catholic archbishop of Westminster, and the leader of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, regarding the violence in Syria. The statement was released Thursday.* * ...
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Without much effort imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians with them having a large army building a wall of shame and forcing the people to live in ghettos Thus the boycott of Israel is valid and I agree with it
As for the Jewish people, who are always on the lookout for any news that is broadcast on international media whose intent is critical to their behavior on this sensitive issue with Palestine, they deserve to be reprimanded, yes. Without much effort, imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians, with them having a large army, building a wall of shame, and forcing ...
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Al Qaida resurfaces in Yemen captures coastal areas despite U.S. drone attacks
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO -- Al Qaida has recovered from a U.S.-led counter-insurgency campaign and seized areas along the coast of Yemen. The Yemeni Interior Ministry acknowledged that Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has restored units and captured an area near the port city of Mukalla. The ministry said AQAP, based in neighboring Saudi Arabia, sought to establish a no-go zone ...
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Hizbullah-trained Syrian militias expanding reach with incentives Iran funding
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA -- The new paramilitary force of President Bashar Assad has been rapidly expanding amid Iranian funding and victories over Sunni rebels. Opposition sources said the new National Defense Force, organized in late 2012, has been adding thousands of new fighters over the last ...
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The threat of sectarian war in Iraq looms larger
Fariborz Saremi Sectarian tensions in Iraq are reaching a crisis point. A series of bombings in Sunni-dominated areas of Baghdad and its surroundings which resulted in over 700 hundred deaths in April, followed by 200 more deaths since Friday May 17, are indicative of the worsening security ...
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Sars-like coronavirus now called Mers kills again in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH // An 81-year-old woman who had contracted a Sars-like coronavirus has died in Saudi Arabia, raising the death toll in the kingdom to 18, the health ministry said in a statement yesterday. "An 81-year-old woman who was suffering from kidney failure as well as other chronic illnesses has died" in the eastern Al-Ahsaa region of oil-rich Saudi Arabia after contracting the virus, ...
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Syrian refugees strain Jordan
Ducking and diving between the neat rows of whitewashed mobile homes, children play chase as the sun sets behind the gently rolling desert plains in Jordan's Halabat district. They are among the 2,900 Syrians seeking shelter in the UAE-funded Emirates-Jordanian Camp, located 80 kilometres north-east of Amman. Many of the 770 homes are empty, ready for their intake of more families escaping ...
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Lebanese factions torn over Syria
Observers fear the attack on Hezbollah grounds will flare up the fighting between Lebanese factions who are already up in arms against each other on different sides of the Syrian war, where the Hezbollah are backing President Bashar al-Assad's fight to quell the Sunni-based revolt. Addressing his Hezbollah members, leader Hassan Nasrallah pledge that they would prevail in Syria but held ...
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Terminal Expansion Begins at Omans Port of Sohar
has broken ground on the first phase of its capacity expansion in the Port of Sohar.The construction will pave the way to increase the terminal's capacity from the current 800,000 20-foot-equivalent units to 1.5 million TEUs toward the end of this year. It will also enable the consolidation of the existing and future container-handling operations at the port. The investment in this ...
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Syrian Free Army dissociates itself from militants’ threats to Lebanon
BEIRUT, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - Free Syrian army on Sunday reiterated its commitment to stability, security and sovereignty of Lebanon, the Army’s press ...
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2 rockets hit Beirut signalling a backlash against Hezbollah for role in Syrias civil war
BEIRUT - Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group's leader pledged to lift President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's civil war. The strikes illustrated the potential backlash against Hezbollah at home for linking its fate to the survival of the Assad regime. It's a ...
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Egypt court decision striking down ban on police and army vote stirs worries among some
FILE - In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 file photo, Egyptian soldiers stand guard during a protest in front the Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt's highest court, background, in Cairo, ...
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).
The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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