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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 ...

  • Indian passport problem in Saudi Arabia resolved

    The problem of Saudi Arabian immigration authorities not accepting newly designed Indian passports has been resolved, according to the Indian embassy in Riyadh. India's Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao raised the issue during a meeting with Saudi Deputy Minister of Interior Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Salem Tuesday and the matter was clarified, local media reported Wednesday "Some cases were reported in ...

  • Six Ukrainians evacuated from Syria

    "These individuals were evacuated via Lebanese territory, and subsequently flown to Ukraine on a regular Beirut-Kiev flight," the ministry said in a statement.Ukraine has evacuated more than 500 of its citizens from Syria since last July.Syria has been locked in a civil war since demonstrations broke out against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. According to UN ...

  • Protest Against G4S Outside Israels Ofer Prison 22-5-2013

    British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and "administrative detainees" held without charge or ...

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Requiem for a Dream

Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream is a harrowing descent into the world of addiction. It plays like a downward spiral, watching as the dreams of its characters are slowly blighted out as they are sucked into the vortex of their own physical cravings. It is also a masterpiece of subjective filmmaking, a movie in which the conscious states of the characters are manifested through variou ... ...

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  • Behind Syria peace talks proposal US prepares regional war

    While ostensibly touring the Middle East to discuss a joint US-Russian proposal for peace talks between the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad and Western-backed "rebels," Secretary of State John Kerry met with US allies to prepare for region-wide war.Stopping first in Oman, Kerry held talks with the ruling Sultan, one of the string of monarchical dictators that constitute, ...

  • Iran blocks presidential campaign of pro-US candidate Rafsanjani

    Iranian authorities announced Tuesday that the Islamic Republic's Guardian Council has approved eight candidates to contest the June 14 presidential elections. Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pro-US pillar of Iran's clerical-nationalist establishment and the country's president from 1989 to 1997, and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the political protg of current President Mahmoud ...

  • Kerry Lebanon “at risk” of being swept up in Syrian civil war

    Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the United States was increasingly concerned that the escalating fighting in Syria might slip across the border withLebanon and destabilize that ...

  • UN Nuclear Agency Says Iran Expanded Nuclear Activity

    The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has taken a significant step toward building a reactor that Western experts say could provide a second path to producing material for a nuclear ...

  • Team Obama’s endless Syria bungling

    Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region. In the third year of Syria’s bloody, grinding civil war, Assad remains in power, contrary to near-universal predictions in the West, and Moscow is still running rings around Washington.Obama ...

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