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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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Algerian prime minister says President Bouteflika convalescing
Bouteflika has been neither heard nor seen in public, raising widespread speculation that he is seriously ailing. France's Le Point magazine said Bouteflika, who was treated for cancer in 2005, was in very poor health, with some of his vital functions damaged. Algerian newspaper ...
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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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Qatars Doha Bank may sell bonds to raise capital - CEO
Tue May 21, 2013 7:06am EDT * CEO says has multiple options for capital raise * Bank focused on regional growth currently * Gulf banks have sold Tier 1 bonds in recent months By David French DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Qatar's Doha Bank could issue a capital-boosting bond instead of shares as planned, although it was evaluating the best route to help raise core capital, its chief executive ...
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Qatar National Bank to start India operations in expansion push
Qatar National Bank, one of the most acquisitive Gulf Arab lenders, will start operations in India in the third quarter of this year, the bank said on Tuesday, expanding its reach to Asia's third-largest economy. The state-owned bank, which has a presence in nearly 25 countries, said it had received all regulatory approvals to establish a fully-owned subsidiary under the name of QNB India ...
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Syria Israel exchange fire over border
DAMASCUS, Syria -; Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire ...
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Qatars QNB set to launch Indian operations in Q3
QNB (India) will take the role of extending consultancy and advisory services in the field of investment and finance for the Middle East companies that are willing to establish businesses in India or invest in ...
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Qatar expansion driving down credit growth - Barclays
"Annual credit growth is likely to be closer to 14-17% y-o-y" Qatar's banks' credit is likely to grow by 14% to 17% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2013, much lower than the average 27% expansion seen in the previous two years, according to a Barclays study.The recent Qatar Central Bank (QCB) data showed a fall in credit during the first quarter of 2013, with quarter-on-quarter ...
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VTB finds tricky main SPO buyer Qatar
Finance Qatar's sovereign wealth fund will become the main purchaser in VTB's secondary public offering, buying $1 billion of the available $3.3 billion shares. It may prove to be a difficult shareholder for Russia's second largest lending bank. The Sovereign Fund of Qatar is aiming to secure a business partnership in order to develop new joint projects. After the purchase it ...
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Israel extends Palestinians Gaza fishing zone
Palestinian fishermen riding fishing boats take part in a protest calling for an increased fishing zone, at the seaport of Gaza City April 7, ...
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Eight bosses sacked in big Kuwait Petroleum shake-up
State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) has sacked the heads of all of its eight subsidiaries in the company's largest ever shakeup, following a controversial $2.2bn compensation payment to US firm Dow Chemical, according to local ...
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Qatar to get $500m of shares in Russian bank VTB
The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500m of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday.The $500m allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The allocations will give the investors more than half the new shares being sold in VTB's ...
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Officials More attacks in Iraq 7 killed
A police officer says a suicide blast at a checkpoint, followed by militants who opened fire at Iraqi troops, has killed three soldiers in Tarmiyah. The town is 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of ...
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Attacks in Iraq kill 7 including 3 soldiers
A new wave of attacks struck war- torn Iraq on Tuesday morning and killed at least seven people, including three soldiers, while 75 others were injured in the violence, police said.Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in an attack by an armed group at a base of the Iraqi army in Tarmiya, some 30 km north of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The ...
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18 militants killed in Afghan operations within day
Eighteen militants have been killed and 22 others detained in a series of operations in different Afghan provinces within the last 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said Tuesday."Up to 18 armed Taliban have been killed and 22 others captured in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Zabul, Wardak, Logar, Ghazni, Paktiya and Helmand provinces when Afghan National Police (ANP), supported by army ...
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Iran approves agreement on Argentine bombing probe diplomat
Eduardo Amadeo, a legislator from the opposition Peronist Front, left, speaks against an agreement between Argentina and Iran in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The signs read in Spanish "Iran kills," left, and "Do not betray their memory, no to the agreement with the Iran regime." (AP Photo/Victor R. ...
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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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