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Kerry visits Oman for arms deal talks on Syria Mideast
CORK/DUBLIN - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...
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Qatar should consider more flexible exchange rate
Qatar and other Gulf states should consider moving to a more flexible exchange rate from long-entrenched pegs to the US dollar, to better manage inflation risk in the next decade, a senior Qatar central bank official said on ...
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More troops arrive in Egypts Sinai over hostages
An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...
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UN Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan unclear why
GENEVA -- U.N. officials say there has been a sudden fall in the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan, but it's unclear why.Panos Moumtzis , the top U.N. refugee official for Syria, says the usual exodus of up to about 3,000 refugees daily has "dropped to almost zero" over the past four days.Moumtzis told reporters Tuesday in Geneva that his agency is asking if ...
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At least 4 killed in Israel bank robbery
Israeli security officers cordon off the scene of a bank robbery in Beersheva, southern Israel, on May 20, 2013. At least four people were killed in an armed bank robbery that took place on Monday in south Israeli city of Beersheva, Israel channel 2 citing the Magen David Adom emergency services as reporting. During the standoff with police, one of the robbers committed suicide. (Xinhua/Yin ...
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Irans Guardian Council rejects Mashaei Rafsanjani
In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei during a press conference after registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim ...
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Tunisia Salafist group calls for Friday demo
Saif Eddine Errais, center, spokesman of radical Islam Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia speaks during a press conference, Thursday, May 16, 2013 at the "Errahma" mosque in Cite Khadra, near Tunis. (AP Photo/Amine ...
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Syria submits five names for possible peace talks sources
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi talks to media in Damascus April 29, 2013, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. ...
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Bomb attacks kill at least 95 across Iraq
Iraqi security force members gather at the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/ Nabil ...
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Saudi Arabia detains 10 more in Iran spying case
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 10 more people in a spying case it announced in March that it said was linked to Iran, state television reported on ...
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Coronavirus claims another life in Saudi Arabia Tunisia announces 3 cases
Saudi Arabia , but one of the patients in the Eastern Region died yesterday, bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths in the Kingdom to 16. And Tunisia's Health Ministry announced today three cases of the deadly virus, including one ...
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AP Source Michael Jordan changing team name to Hornets
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is changing his team's name to the Hornets, said a person familiar with the situation.The person said Jordan will detail the timetable for the change to be completed at a press conference the Bobcats have scheduled for Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the name change has not ...
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Egypt students protest keosene smell in beans
Dozens of students at Al-Azhar University in Egypt said that they smelled kerosene in beans served for dinner in the school's dormitories The students protested Monday after dinner, Ahram Online reported. An official from the university said initial tests didn't indicate any contamination and that the smell may have come from the gas stove on which the beans were cooked. The ...
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Films with Arab themes hold sway at Cannes
Now that the first few days of catwalk bling and celebrity razzle-dazzle have died down, the Cannes film festival has returned to what it does best: showcasing strong, socially engaged cinema with a global ...
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Fatah Scolds Arab Teens for Soccer Game with Jews
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, threatened Arab teenagers for participating in a soccer game with Jewish Israelis. "Every now and then, some organizations who call themselves Palestinian come up with activities of normalization with the occupation," the Palestinian Authority's ...
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UPDATE 1-Algerian prime minister says President Bouteflika convalescing
Tue May 21, 2013 8:34am EDT (Adds French foreign ministry statement in paragraph 6) By Myra MacDonald ALGIERS May 21 (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ordered to take complete rest by his doctors. Since he was rushed to hospital in Paris on April 27 with ...
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Egypt tourist arrivals rise not back to pre-revolt levels
Egypt rose in the first four months of 2012, the cabinet said on Tuesday, but analysts say the sector is still suffering from the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising. The revolt that ...
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Jordan keeps out Syrian refugees in border clampdown
Syria on Wednesday, has already taken in 473,587 Syrians out of a total of 1.5 million who have fled the conflict in an exodus that has accelerated in the past four months, U.N. figures show. All four unofficial crossing points used by refugees trying to escape bombardments in the southern province of Deraa have been closed for the past six days, refugees and aid workers say, although the ...
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Five Yemenis executed in Saudi Arabia
23/05/2012 14:03 CET Saudi Arabia has executed five Yemenis accused for killing a Saudi national and committing robberies in several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry stated. The five men were executed in the southwestern town of Jizan and their bodies were displayed in public, near a university, according to an eyewitness. In a photo uploaded in Twitter, five men are seen hanging ...
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Waseela awarded turnkey microwave network contract in Saudi Arabia
Waseela, a systems integrator in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has been granted a nationwide microwave network contract in Saudi Arabia, Zawya reported. The project contract was awarded on a turnkey basis, requiring Waseela to provide services from planning and design of the network to operation and maintenance of the system. The contract consists of several stages, with the ...
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Israeli peace negotiator Stalemate bad for Israel
Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest." She spoke days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...
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Mortar attack kills 3 workers near Syrian capital
Three workers were killed and 23 others wounded Tuesday when armed men fired mortar shells that slammed a clothing factory in a Damascus suburb, the pro- government Sham FM radio reported.Most of those injured are in critical conditions, the report said, adding that a huge material loss has been caused to the al- Wasim factory in the eastern suburb of al-Mlaiha.Mortar attacks have become a daily ...
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Syrian army destroys trespassing Israeli vehicle Israe l
Syrian army destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that trespassed on Syrian territories and Israel responded by firing two rockets at a military site in Syria, the military general command said in a statement Tuesday.The army destroyed the vehicle on Tuesday afternoon after it surpassed the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights and moved toward the town of Beir al-Ajam ...
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Middle East’s first online court case registration launched in Dubai
Dubai Courts officially launched three innovative online service programmes. The three programmes provide facility for online case registration, access to archive of case files, and pro bono legal advice. The launch took place in the context of Dubai Courts’ strategic vision towards 'leadership in court performance', which aims to save time and effort, and to aid the facilitation ...
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Tunisia Man back from Saudi Arabia dies from coronavirus 2 children treated and recovered
TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected by the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly trickling out of the ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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