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  • Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race

    TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Iran upgrading nuclear program IAEA

    Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports. According ...

  • Egypt lowers the boom on Sinai and wins release of security officers

    Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO -- Egypt has employed negotiations and heavy military pressure to defuse an insurgency crisis in the Sinai Peninsula. The regime of President Mohammed Morsi has won the release of seven Egyptian soldiers and security officers held in Sinai. Officials said Bedouin gunmen released the seven unharmed on May 22 in a move that halted a major counter-insurgency ...

  • Syria conflict uproots a half-million Palestinians

    DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.The Palestinians in Syria are particularly vulnerable because of their refugee status, ...

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Badlands [Blu-Ray]

Badlands [Blu-Ray]

Despite having made six feature films over the past four decades, writer/director Terrence Malick has remained an inscrutable figure. One of the most revered of the young directors who made their name in the 1970s as part of the so-called New Hollywood (a group that also includes Francis Ford ... ...

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  • Exchange rates and inflation hit Asian expats in the Emirates

    Currency appreciation back home is hitting Asian expatriates hard on their pockets. Above, a daily scene at a currency exchange in the UAE. Jeffrey E Biteng / The ...

  • Hizbollah sends hundreds of fighters to Qusayr as Syrias violence spreads

    HERMEL // On a country road in Lebanon's north-east, traffic is heavy. Ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hizbollah brings wounded fighters home from Syria, and its dead. With the bodies from the battle over the border at Qusayr, comes the violence, as civil conflict between Syria's Iranian-backed ruler and Sunni rebels spreads ...

  • Eleven die in surge of Iraq violence

    BAGHDAD // Attacks in Iraq yesterday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said. It was the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month. Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, security and medical officials said. Near Baquba, also north of the capital, a roadside bomb in a ...

  • Irans Rafsanjani blasts clerics says report

    In this picture taken on Saturday, May 11, 2013, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh, right, looks on, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. A hardline news website says Iran's election overseers have rejected a pair of powerful and ...

  • How Lebanons Palestinians Are Being Pulled Into Syrias War

    Refugee Camps as War Zones How Lebanon's Palestinians Are Being Pulled Into Syria's War by FRANKLIN LAMB Homs Palestinian Refugee Camp Historically, Palestinian refugees, wherever they have sought temporary sanctuary following the ethnic cleansing of their country by the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise, and pending their return to Palestine, have insisted on ...

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