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  • Obamas drones Gitmo speech welcomed in Pakistan Yemen

    President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners has been welcomed by two key countries affected by the policies - Pakistan and Yemen. At the same time, Pakistani officials criticized Obama for not announcing an end to drone strikes against Islamic militants in the country in his landmark speech on Thursday, as they have long demanded. According to the ...

  • UN agency calls on Syrias neighbours to keep borders open for refugees UN agency calls on Syrias neighbours to keep borders open for refugees

    24 May 2013 150 The United Nations refugee agency today called on countries around Syria to keep their borders open for refugees, while also stressing the need for "urgent and robust" international support for host countries and aid agencies. There are already over 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ...

  • Iran denies having forces in Syria to support Assad

    Iran, the strongest supporter of the Syrian regime, denied on Friday that it had forces in war-torn Syria supporting embattled President Bashar al-Assad. Iran’s statement came a day after nations ...

  • Charbel defends Rifi’s role in Tripoli North Lebanon

    Interior Minister Marwan Charbel defended former Internal Security Forces chief General Ashraf Rifi's role in Tripoli and said that Rifi is working to calm down the situation in the ...

  • Report US traces cyber attack wave to Iran

    May 25, 2013 American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran, the New York Times reported on Friday. According to the report, the targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government ...

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The Incredibles [Blu-Ray]

The Incredibles [Blu-Ray]

Brad Birds The Iron Giant was one of the best animated films of the last decade, which made its being so criminally overlooked in the clogged summer of 1999 that much more of a travesty. It was an ambitious film, one that told an emotionally driven story with a medium that is often e ... ...

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  • Syria opposition refuses to attend peace talks if Assad participates

    May 25, 2013 Members of Syria’s opposition coalition entered the second day of talks in Turkey’s Istanbul on Friday, with a decision yet to made over whether to participate in the upcoming Geneva conference aimed at ending the two-year-old Syrian crisis. Earlier Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend the Geneva ...

  • Kerry Acknowledges Years Of Disappointments In West Bank

    Skepticism, cynicism, maybe some hope? Secretary of State John Kerry met with political leaders in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank this week in his effort to restart direct peace talks between the two parties. As NPR's Emily Harris tells host Scott Simon, this visit brought no concrete plan, but one is expected next ...

  • Assad has enough sarin to wipe out Damascus

    The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has enough of the nerve gas sarin to "eradicate the whole of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo," a former Syrian chemical weapons scientist told Al Jazeera on Friday."If the regime is to fire a Scud-B with a chemical warhead filled with sarin, the missile would create a chemical cloud in the atmosphere that is 3km long and 500m wide, ...

  • North Lebanon violence lingers four killed

    Hassan al-Banni - all hailed from Bab al-Tabbaneh, security sources said, adding that a resident from Jabal Mohsen, Nader Sleiman, was also killed in the day's fighting. At least seven people, including two soldiers, were also wounded.The four deaths, the result of sniper fire, came after a tenuous calm had set in the morning hours of the day following a night of clashes that saw renewed ...

  • Qatars Nakilat set to enter luxury yacht business

    Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) is to diversify from its primary operation of overseeing the world's largest fleet of LNG vessels and start building luxury yachts, the company's managing director told Arabian ...

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