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Egypt Demonstrators Attempt to Storm Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Gharbiya
A group of demonstrators attempted to break into the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Gharbiya governorate on Tuesday, an eyewitness said. They hurled petrol bombs and stones at the building, the eyewitness added. The demonstrators earlier attempted to barge into a services office belonging to the brotherhood yet they later withdrew. At the same time, a state of cautious calm ...
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Egypt Salafi Nour Party Will Not Take Part in Next Fridays Demonstrations
The Salafi Nour Party said on Tuesday it will not participate in next Friday's demonstrations in order to avoid any violence that may break out. Demonstrating amid such circumstances leads to mobilising more crowds from the opposing side, the Middle East News Agency reported the party as saying. Several Islamist parties including the Freedom and Justice Party, the Building and Development ...
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One man killed in Lebanon town shooting spree
BEIRUT - A shooting spree by gunmen loyal to a controversial Salafist sheikh in the southern Lebanese town of Sidon left one man dead and several wounded, the army and a security source ...
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CB Previews International draws the line on pocket listings
However, many real estate leaders are pushing back against the practice of selling homes outside multiple listing services, which often results in the listing agency representing the buyer as well and earning both sides of the commission, known as dual agency. They're concerned that large numbers of pocket listings will compromise the effectiveness of MLSs and skew the level playing field ...
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Explosion rocks southern Afghan town causing casualties
KABUL, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- A blast rocked Qalat city, the provincial capital of southern Afghan province of Zabul Saturday morning, leaving casualties, local media Tolo News ...
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UN refugee agency prepares to aid Syrian refugees during winter
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR) said that it is budgeting more than 64 million U.S. dollars for winter preparations for Syrian refugees in neighboring countries and internally displaced Syrians, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said on Friday. UNHCR statistics showed that the total number of Syrian refugees registered or awaiting registration in Jordan, Lebanon, ...
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Lebanese president opposes military intervention in Syria
BEIRUT, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Friday that Lebanon objects to any military intervention in Syria. "A military intervention in Syria is not an acceptable move. We would not back a military intervention. But if a political solution requiring Arab support is proposed, then it would become possible for Lebanon to take part in it," Suleiman said in an ...
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UN-Arab special envoy meets Saudi King on Syrian crisis
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- UN-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday met with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz Al Saud in Red Sea city of Jeddah and called for a political solution to the crisis in Syria, a UN spokesman told reporters here. Brahimi told the King that Syria's deplorable situation would not be resolved through military means, ...
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Mortar shell slams building at Palestinian camp in Syrian capital injuring many
DAMASCUS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- A mortar shell slammed Friday evening into a residential bloc at a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, leaving destruction scenes and an undisclosed number of injured people, witnesses said. The shell struck the Ein al-Ghazal street in al-Yarmouk camp in Damascus, witnesses said, adding that a residential bloc was destroyed and many people were ...
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Syria-Turkey conflict to benefit West Iranian lawmaker
A senior Iranian lawmaker said Friday that military conflict between Syria and Turkey will drag the two countries into a war that will only benefit the West, Press TV reported. Hossein Sobhaninia, a member of Iran's Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said Western countries have failed in their efforts to change the Syrian government and now seek to ...
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Turkey deploys 250 tanks 55 jets on border with Syria
Turkey bolstered military presence on the border with Syria by deploying 250 tanks and 55 jets of various models on Friday after a Syrian military helicopter bombed the Syrian border town of Azmarin. Local English daily Today's Zaman reported that the tanks were deployed in the provinces of Sanliurfa and Mardin after the government ordered the military's readiness for a possible clash ...
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U.S. seeking to use neighboring countries against Syria Iranian lawmaker
TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- A senior Iranian lawmaker said that the United States is seeking to use neighboring states against crisis-stricken Syria, Press TV reported on Friday. The United States sees military intervention as the only solution to the Syrian crisis and wants Turkey to be involved in the American war game, said Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, spokesman of Iran Majlis (parliament) ...
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Iranian lawmakers ask Turkey not to follow Wests path on Syria
TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- As the tensions between Syria and Turkey escalated, Iranian lawmakers and a senior cleric on Friday called on Turks to refrain from what they called following the Western path of antagonism with Syria. Turkey is still putting pressure on Syria by authorizing the government to launch cross-border military operations and reinforcing military buildup in border region ...
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Turkey follows West to weaken Syria Iranian cleric
Tehran's interim Friday prayer leader, Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, said Friday that Turkey is following the West to weaken the "anti-Israel state" of Syria, Press TV reported. Referring to the border tensions between Turkey and Syria, Seddiqi said, "Such moves show that Turkey is following a Western and NATO plan to weaken or destroy an anti-Zionist and anti- American Muslim ...
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Syrian plane fuels tensions between Ankara Damascus
ANKARA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The landing of a Syrian plane accused of carrying "ammunition" mounted tensions between Ankara and Damascus as Turkey scrambled Friday fighter jets after a Syrian helicopter approached its border. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the Syrian passenger plane, which was forced to land in Esenboga Airport in the Turkish capital of ...
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Israeli PM pays visit to high-tech barrier with Egypt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets a bird's-eye view of the just-completed 240-kilometer high-tech barrier with Egypt on Oct. 11, 2012. (Xinhua/GPO/Mishe ...
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UNHCR steps up efforts to prepare for winter for displaced Syrians
GENEVA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- With Syrian refugee numbers still rising in neighboring countries, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is budgeting more than 64 million U.S. dollars for winter preparations for refugees and internally displaced Syrians, a spokesperson said Friday. UNHCR statistics showed that the total number of Syrian refugees registered or pending registration in Jordan, ...
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Russian arms exporters deny sending weapons to Syria
MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian arms exporter on Friday denied sending weapons to Damascus via a Syrian passenger plane which was forced to land in the Turkish capital of Ankara. Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport said it supplied military-purpose products "in strict accordance with the international legal regulations and the Russian legislation," Rosoboronexport press officer ...
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Two foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan
Two foreigners, presumably citizens of the U.S. and Canada, were kidnapped on Thursday in the southern Afghan province of Ghazni. This is reported by local authorities. Two foreigners - a man and a woman traveling by car from the province of Ghazni to Kabul, were stopped on the highway and seized by Taliban. The Taliban field commander, whose group operates in the area, confirmed the ...
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Poll Romney leads Obama in Florida by 7 points
Mitt Romney has opened up a 7-point lead over President Barack Obama in Florida--yet more proof that last week's presidential debate may have been a game changer for the Republican nominee's campaign. A new Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll found Romney leading Obama 51 percent to 44 percent among likely Florida voters. That's a major shift from last month when the two ...
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Turkey extends mandate for military operations in Iraq
Sina English Turkey's parliament on Thursday night extended for one year the mandate of the government to conduct military operations in neighboring northern Iraq against militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party based there. The same day, the Turkish Air Force carried out a massive strike on separatists based in the Zap district on adjacent territory. The Turkish army periodically ...
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News Analysis An unpopular war with Syria to cost Turkey dearly
ANKARA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- In case Turkey decides to go to a war with its southern neighbor Syria, it will be a formidable challenge for Turkey, alone or in cooperation with other countries, analysts say. The tensions between the two former allies have already escalated to a new peak, with Turkish military retaliating to Syrian mortar shells almost on a daily basis for more than a week. On ...
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Blast in Damascus 2 injured
Sina English Two people were injured in a "terrorist-masterminded blast" in the west of Damascus. This information was reported by the Syrian TV channel "Surya." "The land mine exploded near the Ministry of Higher Education. As a result, two people were injured," says the report. Since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in March 2011, which claimed, according ...
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Hezbollah admits to Israel drone
Sina English The leader of Lebanese Shia militant movement Hezbollah has said that his group was behind the launch of a drone shot down over Israel last week. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told the movement's al-Manar television network that the drone was made in Iran and had flown over "sensitive sites" in Israel. Israeli fighter planes shot down the drone north of the Negev desert ...
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Putin to visit Turkey on the heels of plane interception
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Turkey December 3, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. He said Putin and he had reached an agreement on the visit in the course of a telephone conversation some four days ago and the two countries' diplomatic services had named December 3 as a possible date. He said this was not linked in any way to the incident ...
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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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