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  • Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list

    Ireland continues to suffer from its false implication in the high profile assassination of a militant in Dubai more than three years ago. Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was on a visit to the UAE on his way to China from Damascus. Twenty seven suspects were named by Dubai Police and it soon became apparent most of them were carrying passports belonging to citizens of other countries. ...

  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • Damac to deliver Oceanscape apartments four years late Damac to deliver Oceanscape apartments four years late

    Damac Properties has begun handing over apartments in its long-awaited Oceanscape project in Abu Dhabi. Most investors bought apartments off-the-plan in 2006, paying 30% of their purchase price in the first 120 days of reserving their property. After seven years Damac has finally finished the project, one of its first and probably last Abu Dhabi ventures. Despite being four years late, ...

  • Hezbollah Chief Confirms Syria Presence

    The chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria. The ...

  • Leadership Questions Could Hamper Syria Peace Talks

    ISTANBUL Next month's Washington - Moscow talks to end the Syrian conflict appear in doubt. The Syrian opposition, at a meeting in Istanbul, remains divided on electing new leadership and it is still unclear if the opposition will attend the talks. Western backers of the opposition are pushing for a broader and more diverse leadership. But attempts to weaken the power of the Islamist ...

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My Soul to Take

My Soul to Take

Because Wes Cravens My Soul to Take is his first effort as both writer and director since 1994s underappreciated meta-horror experiment New Nightmare, it will likely be seen as even more of a disappointment than it actually is. The fact that the film has been sitting o ... ...

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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

    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). ...

  • Hague on Syrian Crisis Hezbollah and Iran

    Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat--During his Middle East tour last week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague focused on one major issue, namely the on-going Syrian crisis. Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with Hague at the residence of Peter Millett, the British Ambassador in Jordan. In this interview, Hague talked about the "Geneva 2" conference's chances of success, the difficultly of finding a ...

  • Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis Civil war looms in Iraq

    As Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian civil war, with 400 people killed so far this month, Najmaldin Karim, governor of one of the country's most violent provinces, is pessimistic about the ability of the government in Baghdad to prevent greater turmoil. "This government is incapable," he says. "It likes to live from crisis to crisis, without managing any one of them. You ...

  • Hezbollah confirms involvement in Syria conflict for the first time

    Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is fighting alongside the government troops in Syria. Hezbollah is a Shi’ite Muslim group and it is backing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad who is from the minority Alawite sect – an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. During a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed for the first time the group’s involvement in the ...

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