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Five dead in Israeli bank robbery
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A bank robbery in Israel on Monday ended with the deaths of five people, including one of the holdup men who apparently shot and killed himself when police launched a raid to free ...
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Mahama Got It Wrong -Abu Ramadan
The National Youth Organiser of the People's National Convention (PNC) and leading member of the Alliance For Accountable Government (AFAG), Abu Ramadan, has challenged a remark made by His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, that sought to suggest that the Supreme Court was being given the opportunity to hear the electoral petition currently before it. The PNC youth leader contended ...
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Burj Al Arab introduces exclusive 24-carat gold iPads
the first hotel in the world to offer the Interactive Customer Experience (ICE) software available on the 24-carat gold iPads. The 24-carat gold iPads, designed specifically for Burj Al Arab and engraved with the hotel's logo, will be offered to every guest upon check-in. The guests will be able to use the 24-carat gold iPad as a "virtual concierge" and – at the touch of ...
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Spokesman for al-Qaida-linked Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday. Sanda Ould Boumana, the Timbuktu-based spokesman for Ansar Dine, is being transferred to Mauritania's capital, ...
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Abdullah bin Zayed takes part in Doha Forum and Enriching the Middle-Easts Economic Future Conference
WAM DOHA, May 20th, 2013 (WAM)-- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, today attended the inauguration of the Doha Forum: Enriching the Middle-East's Economic Future Conference, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Doha. The Forum was opened by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, in the presence of heads of states and delegations. The ...
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Flight-Ambulance-International chooses Al Bateen Executive Airport for stopover base in Middle East
WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 -- German air ambulance specialist and VVIP jet operator, Flight-Ambulance-International (FAI) rent-a-jet AG, has named today Al Bateen Executive Airport as its preferred stopover airport in the Middle East region. Through an agreement with the German operator, Al Bateen Executive Airport, operated by Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) as the only dedicated ...
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UAE First Arab Country to Receive Full Membership of International Ice Hockey Federation
WAM STOCKHOLM, May 20th, 2013 (WAM)-- The UAE Ice Hockey Association (UAE IHA) has been granted full membership of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), thus becoming the first Arab country to have the privilege of joining high ranked members and decision-makers in the international ice hockey community. This membership represents a great administrative achievement for the rising ...
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Equatorial Guinea prohibits Egypt revolt reports
No talk of a Tunisia or Egypt-style revolutions in Equatorial Guinea. These were the orders given to media in the country, which all are controlled by the state or the family of President Teodoro Obiang ...
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Palestinian boys father denies Israeli report over his sons death
A father of a Palestinian boy who was killed during the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, dismissed a report released by the Israeli government alleging that his late son, Mohammed Al-Dura, was not killed by Israeli fire.The images, filmed by the French public television France 2, showed a 12-year-old boy crying and cowering beside his father at a junction near an Israeli settlement in the ...
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4 killed in armed bank robbery in south Israel city
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.Four others, including three men and a woman, were critically wounded in the robbery and are being treated by paramedics at the scene, added the report.The robbers entered the bank and opened fire. ...
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US drone kills 2 al-Qaida suspects in central Yemen
A US drone strike killed two al- Qaida suspects in Yemen's central province of al-Bayda on Monday, a provincial police official said.The raid took place on Monday dawn in Khubzat Kaifa in al- Kuraishia district of Radda city, when the suspects left a farm on a motorbike in the area, the official told Xinhua by phone on condition of anonymity.The Yemeni defense ministry on its website ...
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New conference over Syria crisis should be based on Geneva meeting
Mokhtar Lamani, the Damascus representative of the UN-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, said Monday that his efforts will be focused on the planned international conference on Syria slated for June.Lamani made the remarks upon his arrival to the capital Damascus with his team members who left Syria two months ago after mortar shells slammed their hotel in the heart of the capital."The focus ...
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Iran says next president should be physically competent to work
The spokesman of Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution Abbasali Kadkhodaei said Monday that next Iranian president should be physically competent to be able to work for hours, the State IRIB TV reported.Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution, the main legislative body of the country, is now studying the qualification of 680 candidates and will release the results on May 21.The ...
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Dr. Mirza represents Bahrain in Arab Energy Efficiency Day
Manama, May 20 (BNA) - Minister of State for Electricity and Water Affairs, Dr. Abdul-Hussein bin Ali Mirza today affirmed in a recorded speech, as he participated in the Arab Energy Efficiency Day, the Kingdom of Bahrain pays a high interest to the issue of energy and water conservation and seeks to improve energy efficiency and water conservation and the preservation of vital resources in the ...
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Qatar Airways sued after drinks trolley injury
An Australian passenger is suing Qatar Airways after he was hit by a drinks trolley, allegedly causing physical and psychological trauma, according to local newspaper The ...
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Iran electoral watchdog hints at Rafsanjani rejection
Iran 's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former ...
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Qatar sets up $1 billion energy infrastructure fund
DOHA (Reuters) - Three Qatari state-backed entities, including the Gulf Arab nation's acquisitive sovereign wealth fund, are setting up a $1 billion fund to invest in overseas energy infrastructure assets. The new fund will be run by Qatar ...
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Security beefed up in Egypts Sinai after kidnapping of security personnel
CAIRO - Egyptian officials say dozens of military and police armoured vehicles have crossed into Sinai, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five days after suspected militants kidnapped six policemen and a border guard there. Islamist President Mohammed Morsi said all options are open to free the seven men. Officials have said mediators were in touch with the captors. ...
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Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests
Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...
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Two tourists killed in Turkey hot-air balloon collision
ISTANBUL: A Brazilian and a Spanish tourist died on Monday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials said. The accident occurred over Cappadocia's sculpted rock formations when one balloon collided with the basket of another balloon above and crashed to the ground, the governor of Nevsehir province, Abdurrahman Savas, ...
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Saudi Arabia has some of the highest mobile charges in the world
According to a survey conducted by the Saudi Consumer Protection Association (CPA), mobile call charges in the Kingdom are among the highest in the world, with a rate ...
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Egypt breaks ammunition development contract with Russia - Izvestia newspaper
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Abu Qatada expects to be acquitted of terror charges in Jordan lawyers say
Jordan , his lawyers have told a court hearing.Danny Friedman, for Abu Qatada, told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) on Monday that the new treaty between Britain and Jordan ensuring he will not face a trial based on evidence obtained ...
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In Egypt even an autopsy is political
CAIRO , Egypt -- Egyptian forensic officials in Cairo say they are struggling with the overwhelming number of bodies that continue to arrive at their facilities bearing marks of torture and abuse in police custody, even when the streets are calm from political unrest. Senior pathologists with the government-affiliated Forensic Medical Authority (FMA) -- speaking to GlobalPost on the condition ...
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Alessa Industries reveals expansion into Qatar
Alessa Industries Group, Saudi Arabia, has announced its plan to expand into the Qatari market and is may build a factory in the country in the future. CEO Eng. Yousef Al Mutlaq said: "The is based on the country’s promising potential. The move also reflects our commitment to supporting economic integration between the member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council." Based in ...
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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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