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  • 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 Bars Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide

    IA conservative body in Iran has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election: moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight candidates ...

  • Kerry Mideast Talks on Syria to Include Russian Call for Involving Iran

    STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East this week for talks to promote an international peace conference on Syria. Russia wants Iran to be part of the process. In this fight for control of Syria, Iran is one of the biggest backers of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. So Russia says Iran should be part of the peace process. "Iran has ...

  • 4 killed 68 wounded in bomb attacks in Iraq

    Beijing, May 21 (Xinhua-ANI): At least four people were killed and 68 others wounded in deadly bomb attacks in war-torn Iraq on Tuesday, police said. At least three people were killed and more than 43 others wounded when two car bombs exploded in the Hussein district in Tuz Khormato, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The blasts caused ...

  • Cannes Fashion-Photos Matt Damon and Sharon Stone Storm the French Riviera

    Today, the Cannes Film Festival saw two of its most glamorous red carpets yet courtesy of a pair of star-studded screenings: one unveiling the Michael Douglas and Matt Damon Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra and the other celebrating the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's epic Cleopatra. For the former event, Damon and Douglas opted for classic tuxes, while Sharon ...

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The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità) [Blu-Ray]

The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità) [Blu-Ray]

Part rise-and-fall melodrama and part documentary about the culture of bullfighting, The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verit) was Italian director Francesco Rosis first film made outside his native Italy although it bears his neorealist political and aesthetic ... ...

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  • Iran Bars Two Contenders From Presidential Race

    Two well-known candidates who had submitted their registration papers for Iran’s June presidential election won’t be on the ballot. That includes former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s former Chief of Staff, Rahim Mashai. Iranian journalist Shirin Jafaari says the decision might mean that some Iranians stay away from the ...

  • Attacks in Iraq kill more than 40 sectarian tensions high

    Residents stand amid rubble at blast scene in Tuz Khormatu town in northern Iraq May 21, 2013. Three persons were killed and 52 others were injured after two car bombs were set off in Tuz Khormatu on Tuesday, according to the police. ...

  • Syria Israel Trade Shots in Golan Heights

    The Israeli army on Tuesday fired at a target in Syria after one of its military vehicles was hit by cross-border fire in the Golan Heights. The Syrian Army said it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed. It was the first time since Syria's uprising erupted more than two ...

  • Israel - Restrictions on movement are biggest hurdle for journalists in Israel Palestine

    The International Press Institute (IPI) has called for an end to restrictions on freedom of movement for journalists working in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.In a report released by IPI today, the lack of free movement for journalists emerges as the single greatest challenge to local reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most Palestinian journalists are unable to enter Israel, and are ...

  • Top seeds ousted at WTAs Strasbourg International

    Virginie Razzano, shown at last year's French Open, had one of the four upsets in Tuesday's play at the WTA's Strasbourg International tennis tournament. UPI/David ...

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