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  • Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S. Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

    In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

  • 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). ...

  • Qatar drops bid to take UN agency from Montreal

    When Qatar made a sudden move to take the headquarters of a UN agency from Montreal, Canada launched into a no-delay, no-quarter campaign to beat it back. On Thursday, Qatar cried uncle and called Ottawa to say it was withdrawing its bid to win the seat of the International Civil Aviation ...

  • Battle for Syrian Town Spurs Sectarian Fighting in Northern Lebanon

    Unusually fierce battles between militias in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli -- Sunnis against Alawites who are allied with Hezbollah and the Syrian government -- have kept schools and businesses closed there since Monday and left at least 24 people dead. Mortar fire and other heavy weapons have ravaged neighborhoods, a severe escalation from the usual sporadic gunfire that raised fears ...

  • Conference for peace in Syria

    The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, confirmed on Wednesday (8th) that in conversations with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, they came to an agreement to organize a new international conference on the conflict in Syria. Moscow and Washington agree that the meeting will take place in May in Geneva with the participation of both parties Moscow and Washington agree that the meeting ...

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Carnival of Souls [DVD]

Carnival of Souls [DVD]

Television and the cinema have long had a strange, antagonistic relationship. When first introduced in the late 1940s, television posed a major threat to the monopoly the movies held on mass entertainment. Thus, the movies felt forced to evolve, which resulted in technological developments such as stereo sound, Cinemascope wide-screens, and gimmicks like 3-D. ...

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  • Iran denies having forces in Syria

    /enpproperty--> Iran said on Friday it has no forces in Syria supporting President Bashar al-Assad's army, one day after foreign backers of his rebel foes demanded Teheran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory. "The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by ...

  • Kerry urges Israel to promote peace talks not settlements

    US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. Explaining part of the strategy of his now 2-month-old peace initiative, Kerry said ...

  • Syria willing to attend peace talks

    /enpproperty--> Damascus has agreed "in principle" to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending Syria's civil conflict, Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday. It was the first confirmation that President Bashar al-Assad's government would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition. But despite the announcement from ...

  • Royal Congratulatory Messages To Jordan

    Bandar Seri Begawan - His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam has consented to send a congratulatory message to His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and member of the royal family, as well as the people of Jordan, on the occasion of Jordan's Independence ...

  • Analysis In Syria winning is a relative term

    Syrian army soldiers taking position in the Jarba area in rural Damascus, Syria, in this photo released May 13 by the official Syrian Arab News ...

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