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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, ...

  • Syrian Opposition Disputes Prevent Decision on Peace Talks

    Syria's main opposition coalition has held an unscheduled fourth day of meetings in Istanbul (Turkey) as internal disputes prevent it from deciding whether to join a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference with Damascus. Syrian National Coalition members on Sunday said the main dispute concerns whether to grant Saudi Arabia a bigger role in the group, by expanding its membership to ...

  • Kerry Hopeful on Palestinian Economic Plan

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says an economic plan to revive the ailing Palestinian economy could expand output by up to 50 percent in the next three years. The top U.S. diplomat, speaking Sunday at the World Economic Forum in Jordan, said the plan could also cut unemployment by almost two-thirds and average wages could jump 40 percent. But he said improvements depend on parallel ...

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Basic

Basic

In a scene near the beginning of Basic, John Travolta, who plays Tom Hardy, an ex-Army-Ranger-turned-DEA-agent, is speaking with Col. Bill Styles (Timothy Daly), the commander of an Army base in Panama. Hardy has been brought in by Styles because of his expert interrogation skills. An Army Ranger live-fire exercise deep in the jungle has gone terribly wrong and the only survivors arent tal ... ...

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  • External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid terms Maoist attacks as threat to humanity

    External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid who is on an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday termed the Maoist attacks on Congress leaders in Chattisgarh as a threat to humanity. Speaking exclusively to ANI Khurshid said: This is a big, big tragedy as they were great, brave leaders. This just shouldn't have happened. I am not too sure of the happenings as different versions are coming in. ...

  • Iraq may increase oil supply to India by 30 percent Minister

    Iraq is likely to increase oil supply to India by around 30 percent as shipments from regional rival Iran drop following sanctions from the US and European countries, a senior Iraqi minister has said. "India has requested 80,000 barrels per day of additional crude oil supply. We will increase the supply depending on the availability," Iraq's Minister of Water Resources Mohanad Salman Alwan ...

  • Hezbollah leader vows victory in Syria

    The leader of the Lebanese Shia militant Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, has promised his supporters of victory in Syria, where they are backing President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian rebels in the besieged town of Qusair say they are under heavy bombardment from Hezbollah combatants. Qusair is important for the Syrian government because it links the capital, Damascus, with the Alawite ...

  • Middle East businessmen caught in Kerala CPI-M feud

    Two prominent Middle East-based businessmen who hail from Kerala appear to be caught in the factional feud of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in Kerala. The Ernakulam unit of the CPI-M has accused M.A. Yusuf Ali, owner of the Emke Group, of encroaching upon the government land for his Rs.1600-crore Lulu Shopping Mall project here that opened in March this year. The Ernakulam ...

  • Israel drills unconventional warfare

    Amid mounting tensions with Syria, Israel's military and rescue forces on Sunday launched a nationwide drill aimed at testing their readiness to cope with an unconventional weapons attack on the home front.The four-day exercise, named "Steadfast Home Front 1," simulates hundreds of missiles -- some armed with chemical warheads and fired from neighboring foes Syria, Lebanon, Gaza ...

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