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Iran stacks presidential candidate list with safe Khamenei men
FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, ...
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U.S. casts doubt on credibility of Iran’s upcoming election
United States Friday called into question the credibility of Iran’s presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and ...
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HM King Hamad Congratulates Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad on Sport Achievement in 18th Arab Athletics Championship
Manama, May 24 (BNA)--His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa held a telephone call today with First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport and President of Bahrain Athletics Association Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa. HM congratulated him on the National Athletics Team's ability to grab third place, in general, in the 18th Arab Athletics Championship which was ...
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Bahrain Condemns Crime That Claimed Life of British Soldier in London
Manama, May 24 (BNA)--Bahrain strongly condemned the crime which claimed the life of a British soldier in London, the UK, yesterday. Meanwhile, it expressed full support to the British government in confronting terrorism. The Foreign Ministry stressed in a statement Bahrain's call to prevent the extremists and terrorists from using the land of any country to receive funding and exploit ...
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Bahrains Rights Britains Failure
, claimed that "so-called human rights organisations" are "largely administered by ex-ideologists and even terrorists". It continued: "As much as beasts cannot be left to roam freely, so in human society the feral element’s freedom should be under control." In fact, it is well documented ...
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LeBron James Will Eventually Top Michael Jordan As Basketballs Greatest Player
Although there will be resistance, LeBron James will ultimately be seen as the greatest basketball player of all time, surpassing Michael Jordan. And it shouldn't really be close. It seems like an appropriate time to examine the comparison as James, 28 and finishing his 10th NBA season, is essentially halfway through his career barring injury. Worth noting is that it's also a career ...
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Israeli-Palestinian problem at base troubles in Middle East says Jerusalem Patriarch
"There is no doubt that the Palestinian problem is the focus of all conflict in the Middle East for the last one hundred years. This is the truth that we cannot circumvent," said Latin-rite Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem. Speaking at a conference in Beirut on Christians in the Middle East, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Patriarch said that the Israeli-Palestinian ...
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Officials probe why Arabs get adopted to get Dominican IDs
Santo Domingo.- The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is looking into the birth certificates of several foreigners of Arab origin, who were adopted by Dominicans and are seeking Dominican IDs and nationality. A report submitted to JCE president Roberto Rosario by the ID Dept. notes that a considerable number of foreigners has been periodically submitting requests to approve the adoptions of adults ...
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WHO to help Saudi Arabias coronavirus investigation before hajj
Men wearing surgical masks as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus speak at a hospital in Dammam, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. Officials in Saudi Arabia say they've tightened infection control ...
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10 men suspected of brutally killing 3 women in Egypt for alleged affairs
LUXOR, Egypt – A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals in the conservative region, a security official said Friday. Police believe the 10 men stormed the house of the women, ...
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North African jihadists widen their war
The jihadist alliance in North Africa has widened its war with attacks in Niger demonstrating the militants are able to causing mayhem across the ...
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Groups say repealing Jordan Lake Rules makes no sense
Pittsboro, N.C. - Before crowds descend on Jordan Lake to swim, boat and fish over the Memorial Day weekend, environment groups held a news conference Friday to express concern over legislation that would repeal water-quality rules for the lake.Environment North Carolina, the Sierra Club, the Haw River Assembly and local businesspeople said they were puzzled by the Senate's passage last ...
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United Arab Emirates - Emirati netizen sentenced to 10 months in prison
Reporters Without Borders expresses outrage at the Abu Dhabi appeals court confirmation of the 10-month prison sentence of netizen Abdullah Al-Hadidi.The appeals court made its ruling on 22 May.Arrested on 22 March, Al-Hadidi was convicted in a lower court in April ...
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Oman - Omani security forces besiege a bloggers home and arrest him
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the Omani security services' continuous targeting and arrest of activists on social networks websites without charges or judicial orders.The security forces arrested Ziab El-Amri, a blogger and activist, on 20 May 2013 after the Omani special task force unit besieged his house located in Senaw in the Modabi province north of ...
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3 Killed In “Honor Crime” In Egypt
';honor killing'; after the women were accused of infidelity. The women were reportedly beaten with sharp objects and strangled before their bodies were wrapped in sheets, weighted with stones, and thrown into the Nile River. At least one of the men has been arrested and is in custody; police are searching for the remaining suspects. So far, only one of the women has been found. The ...
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Opposition skeptical as Damascus agrees to meeting
Syria's divided opposition on Friday called on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to bluntly state whether it was interested in peace talks and on what terms after Russia said Damascus had agreed "in principle" to attend a peace conference in Geneva.Louay Safi, spokesman for the Western-backed National Coalition, the main opposition group, said "we would like to hear ...
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Bahraini protesters clash with police over raid on clerics home
LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Bahraini Shi'ite Muslims angered by a raid last week on a top cleric's home clashed with police on Friday, while thousands more gathered in the cleric's village for a peaceful sit-in against their Sunni-led ...
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PM Haniyeh of Palestinian government in Gaza called on Egypt to revise the Camp David Treaty which was signed with Israel
PM Haniyeh of Palestinian government in Gaza called on Egypt to revise the Camp David Treaty which was signed with Israel GAZA - Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Palestinian government in Gaza called on Egypt to revise the Camp David Treaty which was signed with Israel.Giving a Khutbah at the Khalil al-Wazir mosque in Gaza, Haniyeh said, "we ask Egyptian authorities to revise mainly the ...
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Excerpts Safe exit for Assad proposed.AFP re Obama.Arab League re
Excerpts: Safe exit for Assad proposed.AFP re Obama.Arab League re Syria May 24, 2013 +++SOURCE: Saudi Gazette 24 ...
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Gender pay gap in Middle East between 20-40
DEAD SEA, JORDAN // Bringing female workers' pay closer in line with their male colleagues in the Middle East and North Africa is exercising the minds of delegates at the World Economic Forum as estimates put the pay gap at between 20 and 40 per cent. Getting women into the workforce has long been a challenge for policymakers in a region where levels of female joblessness are generally ...
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Increased Number of Displaced Syrians Returning from Jordan
Damascus, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Increasing numbers of Syrians displaced by the conflict in their country are voluntarily returning to their homeland from Jordan, national media are emphasizing here today. Based on reports from authorities in the neighboring country, the official news channel said on Friday that in recent days at least 645 people entered the country from the Hashemite Kingdom. ...
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Bahrain - Joint appeal to U.N. protests torture of detained rights defenders in Bahrain
The following is a joint appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs calling for an investigation to torture in Bahraini prisons. The appeal, signed by over 50 NGOs, was initiated by the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights that was signed from NGOs worldwide:UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendezand UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...
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Minister of Foreign Affairs informs Secretary General of Arab League of Irans Threats against Bahrain
Manama, May 24th (BNA) -Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, sent an official letter to the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Dr. Nabil El-Araby informing him and the Arab countries of the recent hostile and blatant threats committed against the Kingdom and its national security by one of the Iranian officials. This was in the light of the ...
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Syria opposition seeks to unify as momentum for talks builds
George Sabra (L), a veteran Christian opposition figure and acting President of the Syrian National Coalition, speaks during the opening session of a meeting by members of the Syrian opposition in Istanbul May 23, ...
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UAEs $3 bln aid for Egypt will take time - UAE finmin
SIR BU NUAYR ISLAND, United Arab Emirates | Fri May 24, 2013 11:14am EDT SIR BU NUAYR ISLAND, United Arab Emirates, May 24 (Reuters) - T he $3 billion in aid that the United Arab Emirates pledged for Egypt in 2011 will "take time" to be transferred, the UAE Finance Minister and Dubai Deputy Ruler said on Friday. "We are going in the right way but it will take time. I cannot ...
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Saudi Arabia's massive infastructure drive
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a major construction boom being implemented and supported by the national government in order to improve infrastructure and living standards in the largest economy in the Arab world.
It was recently announced by the director-general of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON), Tawfig Fawzan Alrabiah, that a new industrial city would be built in Taif in order to cope with growing demand for industrial land in Saudi Arabia. The Taif Industrial City will in fact be a ‘city within a city’ so to speak, but will measure 11 square miles in size and will function as a fully-fledged industrial city, providing all the infrastructure required in such zones. Read more
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