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World Bank proposes $150m loan to Jordan
The World Bank has proposed a $150m loan for Jordan to help it with the cost of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, Jordanian and World Bank board sources said on ...
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No role for Assad post-conflict - Friends of Syria
President Bashar al-Assad will have no role to play in a peaceful Syria. That is according to the participants of a meeting Jordan of the Friends of Syria, a group of Western nations trying to broker a peace deal proposed by the US and Russia. It builds on last year’s stalled plan for a peaceful transition of power. ';In the event that the Assad regime is unwilling to negotiate ...
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Mall of Qatar project set for 2015 opening
Construction has started on Doha's QR3bn ($820m) Mall of Qatar, which will be the largest retail centre in the Gulf state when it is completed in September ...
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Six Ukrainians evacuated from Syria
"These individuals were evacuated via Lebanese territory, and subsequently flown to Ukraine on a regular Beirut-Kiev flight," the ministry said in a statement.Ukraine has evacuated more than 500 of its citizens from Syria since last July.Syria has been locked in a civil war since demonstrations broke out against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. According to UN ...
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Obama discusses Syria with senior Russian official
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in Syria.Dropping by a White House meeting between Patrushev and Thomas Donilon, his national security advisor, Obama discussed the need for a negotiated political settlement in Syria as well as the importance of ...
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Protest Against G4S Outside Israels Ofer Prison 22-5-2013
British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and "administrative detainees" held without charge or ...
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Behind Syria peace talks proposal US prepares regional war
While ostensibly touring the Middle East to discuss a joint US-Russian proposal for peace talks between the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad and Western-backed "rebels," Secretary of State John Kerry met with US allies to prepare for region-wide war.Stopping first in Oman, Kerry held talks with the ruling Sultan, one of the string of monarchical dictators that constitute, ...
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Iran blocks presidential campaign of pro-US candidate Rafsanjani
Iranian authorities announced Tuesday that the Islamic Republic's Guardian Council has approved eight candidates to contest the June 14 presidential elections. Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pro-US pillar of Iran's clerical-nationalist establishment and the country's president from 1989 to 1997, and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the political protg of current President Mahmoud ...
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Kerry Lebanon “at risk” of being swept up in Syrian civil war
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the United States was increasingly concerned that the escalating fighting in Syria might slip across the border withLebanon and destabilize that ...
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UN Nuclear Agency Says Iran Expanded Nuclear Activity
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has taken a significant step toward building a reactor that Western experts say could provide a second path to producing material for a nuclear ...
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Team Obama’s endless Syria bungling
Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region. In the third year of Syria’s bloody, grinding civil war, Assad remains in power, contrary to near-universal predictions in the West, and Moscow is still running rings around Washington.Obama ...
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Oman Air boosts fleet with three new A330-300
The aircraft will be operated on long haul routes Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has placed an order for three A330-300s, growing its A330 Family fleet to a total of ten Airbus aircraft, according to a press release on Wednesday.The aircraft will be operated on long haul routes and can comfortably seat close to 300 passengers."The efficiency, reliability and ...
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Morsi appeals to opposition for unified Egypt in face increasingly popular rebellion petition
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appealed Wednesday to the opposition for unity, in the face of criticism he is failing the revolution that brought him to power almost a year ...
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Memo From Jerusalem Israel Is Drawn Into Syria’s Turmoil
JERUSALEM -- For more than two years, Israeli leaders have insisted they had no intention of intervening in the civil war raging in neighboring Syria, but they vowed to stop sophisticated weapons from being transferred to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group, and to respond to intentional fire into their ...
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FOX NEWS POLL Voters US shouldnt intervene in Syria
Most Americans do not want the United States to get more involved in Syria. A new Fox News poll finds that nearly a quarter of voters (23 percent) thinks the U.S. should get more involved because it's a humanitarian crisis and Syria is a strategically important country. However, nearly three times as many, 68 percent, say the U.S. should stay out because it's a civil war and the ...
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Iran to increase iron ore exports tax by up to 40
(MENAFN) Due to higher sales to China, Iran's government is negotiating to increase the iron ore exports tax by up to 40 percent, reported Reuters.During the first three months of the year, Iranian iron ore exports went up 48 percent compared with last year's same period.This boost may lead to increase the annual revenue to USD3 billion at current prices.The high tax percentage may cut ...
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PA hammers Israel at WHO annual assembly
Palestinian territories, Golan only sliver on planet to gain slot on World Health Organization's Geneva meeting; Foreign Ministry urges states to oppose resolution blasting Israel for poor health conditions in ...
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UNSC urged to end provocations by Israel
/enpproperty--> UNITED NATIONS - Palestine has asked the UN Security Council to press Israel to end its "provocations", including restricting access to holy sites in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian envoy told reporters on Wednesday. "We have sent to the president of the Security Council and to the secretary-general, during the course of the last two weeks, four letters about the ...
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US admits killing four Americans in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
Washington: The US government formally acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.Attorney General Eric Holder named the dead US citizens in a letter to members of Congress a day before President Barack Obama is expected to promise more transparency on national security ...
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U.S. Fears Syria Fighting Might Spill Into Lebanon
Secretary of State John Kerry met with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman on Wednesday. Mr. Kerry said Lebanon was "at risk" of being swept up in the Syrian civil ...
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U.N. atomic agency Iran expands nuclear technology
Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, left, talks with Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, right, as they face the media at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, ...
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Bundesliga chief slams Qatar World Cup scheduling
Bundesliga chief executive Christian Seifert has slammed FIFA's decision to host World Cup 2022 in Qatar during the country's summer.Traditionally, the quadrennial showcase tournament is held during June and July.However, numerous senior football figures have called for FIFA to break with that tradition due to predicted extremely high temperatures in the country during those months.And ...
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Syria as a Game-Changer US Political Impotence in the Middle East
Limitations of US military power became quite obvious in later years. (Photo: Aljazeera) 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 ...
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US allies say Assad cannot play role in Syrias future denounce
The United States and its European and Arab allies on Wednesday said they would increase support to rebels until the formation of a transitional government in Syria.In a communique issued by "Friends of Syria" meeting, the foreign ministers of the United States, several Arab and European states said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his regime members and all those involved in the ...
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Yemen a Major Part of Any Effort to Close Guantanamo
In a speech on Thursday, President Obama is set to renew his efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A key element of that effort will require the transfer of detainees to Yemen, something that has been impossible since the ...
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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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