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IDF protective gear against rocks considered riot dispersal equipment
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: "This suit provides a wider possibility for the soldier to approach and even to run, and it gives the soldiers more confidence". Along with this we have "thousands of individual riot shields that are capable of linking up to create a defensive wall". Is the idea to stand around until the Arabs get tired of throwing rocks etc. under the ...
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Iran says producing new air defense missile
TEHRAN Iran -; Iran says it has started mass producing a new sophisticated air defense missile system capable of engaging low-altitude ...
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Iraq BombingMore than 30 people dead hundreds wounded series bomb blasts Breaking News
A series of bomb blasts across Iraq has left at least 34 people dead. 24 were massacred in a series of car bombs across the predominantly Shi'ite city of Baghdad on Monday ...
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Dozens die in Iraq bombing attacks
The attacks are the latest in a recent spike of bombings that has hit both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the past week. The bloodshed has raised fears of a return to the widespread sectarian violence of 2006-2007 that brought the country to the edge of civil war.In the Iraqi capital, nine car bombs went off, striking at bus stops, market places and in the streets of Shiite areas during ...
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IHG Announces First Staybridge Suites for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Priority Club® Rewards, the loyalty program for IHG, InterContinental® Hotels Group, and its Family of Brands, is changing its name to IHG® Rewards Club. You'll still receive the same great benefits you have today, plus new ones like free Internet for members globally in 2014, starting with Elite members in July ...
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Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators on Monday
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
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Iraq suffers as corruption increases
Iraq has been named the eighth most corrupt country in the world, meaning that despite the country's thriving oil industry and million-dollar contracts, many of its citizens are living in ...
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American drone strike kills two suspected al-Qaeda members in Yemen
An unmanned drone carries out a touch go landing in the Atlantic (US Navy/AFP) Two al-Qaeda militants were killed in an American drone strike in central Yemen on Monday, AFP reported.The attack took place in ...
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23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria Report
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 100 Hezbollah members have been wounded in the fighting around the town of ...
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Middle East and Africa join luxury brands markets
Laura Chesters is digital, consumer and luxury goods reporter at The London Evening Standard, i, The Independent and The Independent on ...
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Addictive Mobility Enters the Middle East
Red Blue Blur Ideas (rbbi) , a leading digital and performance-based agency in Dubai, UAE. The Middle East region not only has one of the fastest growing smartphone and tablet markets globally, but has also seen explosive growth in the use of social media. Advertisers in the region are among the early adopters of mobile ...
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Militants set their sights on mosques in Iraq
A "war on mosques" -- deadly attacks by militants on Sunni mosques and Shiite places of worship called husseiniyahs -- using weapons ranging from bombs to mortar rounds is raging in ...
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New labour law Indian embassy starts delivering exit papers in Saudi Arabia
DUBAI: India on Monday started verification and issuance of emergency certificates allowing its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia following concerns over a new labour policy in the Gulf Kingdom. The schedule currently announced is for the delivery of the first batch of 12,000 emergency certificate applications received at Indian embassy in Riyadh and nearly 3,000 in Saudi's Eastern Province. ...
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Zim treason charges for viewing Egypt on TV
The Robert Mugabe government on 19 February ordered the arrest of 46 activists attending a meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation at which footage of the Egypt protests were shown and discussed. These 46 now have been charged with treason. "They were watching DVD news clips of the protests in Tunisia and Egypt," Roselyn Hanzi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human ...
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If Egypt can we can do it too - Swazi opposition
"Tunisia and Egypt are a big 'we can do it too,' not just for Swaziland, but for the rest of the African continent and the repressed Arab world," according to the Swazi ...
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Zimbabweans missing after Egypt party
Five young Zimbabweans have gone "missing" after celebrating the victory of the Egyptian revolution. The five opposition supporters are believed to be in ...
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Dozens of tanks and heavy military equipment cross Suez Canal on way toNorth Sinai
Dozens of tanks and heavy military equipment cross Suez Canal on way to North Sinai Ismailia - Khaled Lotfy AlAhram 20-5-2013 | 09:48 [Google translation] http://bit.ly/19TTI7c An official security source said that that dozens of tanks and heavy equipment of the army crossed the Suez Canal en route to the northern Sinai. The source told Al Ahram that the contingent that included tanks, ...
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Syrias madness and ours
By Spengler "Syria's Descent into Madness" is the cover story of the May 27 Time magazine, recounting the act of ritual cannibalism by a Syrian rebel commander that transfixed the West last week. The sort of atrocities viewable on YouTube - ...
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Car Bombs Kills 31 in Iraq
Car bombs have exploded in mainly Shi'ite sections of Iraq's capital, and in the southern city of Basra, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens ...
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Car bombs in Baghdad south Iraq kill at least 34
BAGHDAD -; A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people on Monday, Iraqi officials ...
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Timeframe for Syria Conference is Counterproductive Lavrov
Moscow, May 20 (BNA) - Moscow believes it is counterproductive to give a timeframe for a conference on Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily on Monday. "Certainly, first of all it is necessary to agree on what this conference will be like. Some of our partners, as (US Secretary of State) John Kerry mentioned, believe several ...
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Bahrain accused of spying on rights activist
Documents filed at the High Court in London by rights group Bahrain Watch accuse the Bahraini government of using surveillance software to spy on a leading rights ...
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Its electric Ten Cities Project breathes new life into Cairo music scene
Cairo's electrifying experience with Ten Cities Project Two nationalities, seven musicians and a shared passion for electronic music came together for a concert that produced a small musical earthquake at the Rawabet Theater ...
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Kerry to Mideast to advance struggling Syria plan
View Photo Associated Press/Evan Vucci, Pool - FILE - In this April 21, 2013 file photo U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Monday, May 20, 2013, Kerry heads back to ...
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Middle East to dominate global petrochemicals industry by 2020
The sale of the unit underscores a growing trend of consolidation in Asia's wealth management industry as private banks struggle to earn ...
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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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