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Bahrain will join other nations in celebrating the International Olympic Day
Manama, June 20 (BNA) -- Bahrain will join the other nations of the World on Sunday (June23) in celebrating the International Olympic Day as the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) is organizing a marathon to mark this occasion. A special campaign to promote this annual event is scheduled for tomorrow (June 21) at the Bahrain City Centre, featuring a series of sports and entertainment events will ...
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Unesco lists 6 Syrian heritage sites as endangered
Syria including a fortress of Saladin and a Crusader castle to the endangered world heritage list, warning that more than two years of civil war had inflicted heavy ...
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Egypts Coptic Christians say they are no longer safe
Egyptian Muslim women hold a cross in support of Christians during a memorial march in Cairo for Christians who were killed during deadly clashes with Muslims in ...
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SNBs Jordan says Swiss franc should weaken in coming quarters
BERNE, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:07am EDT BERNE, June 20 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank expects the Swiss franc to weaken further in coming quarters, chairman Thomas Jordan said after the central bank's rate-setting session on Thursday. "Overall, the value of the Swiss franc remains high and should fall further over the next few quarters," Jordan said in prepared ...
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US-Taliban talks in Qatar not expected on Thursday Source
Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that I am aware of." Asked if that meant they would not happen today, the source added: "Yes that's correct." A senior US official said on Wednesday that talks with the Taliban were likely to be held within the next few days in Qatar, after delays caused by tensions over the ...
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Ramadan could limit taxi availability during Stampede
The city and taxi industry may be striving to improve cab availability this Stampede, but the lunar calendar may play spoiler.Ramadan starts during Calgary's annual cowboy festival, for the first time in three decades. This means Muslim cab drivers will be breaking their long days of fasting every night at sunset -- which will fall just before 10 p.m., as prime time begins for cab demand at ...
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Egypts tourism minister quits in protest ICTP President Geoffrey Lipman releases statement
Tourism is one of the major industries in Egypt and Luxor is a ctiy visited by millions of tourists every year. The newly appointed Luxor governor is a member or is close to a terror group that killed 58 tourists in 1997. Egypt's current minister of tourism Hisham Zaazou is resigning because of this appointment. The International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP) through his President ...
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Bahrain University College CEO praises the Kingdom of Bahrains Higher Education Council
Manama: June 20 --(BNA)-- The University College of Bahrain (UCB)'s Administrative and Financial Affairs CEO, Shaikh Ibrahim bin Khalid Al Khalifa, praised the Bahrain Higher Educational Council's signing of a Services Agreement with the British Accreditation Board regarding the setting up of academic standards for accreditation of higher educational institutions in the Kingdom of ...
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Kuwaits KFH says 20 capital rise oversubscribed
Kuwait Finance House (KFH), the Gulf Arab state's largest Islamic bank, said on Thursday its 20 percent capital increase had been oversubscribed by shareholders, without providing specific ...
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Qatar said to mull new $23bn UK investments
Qatar is planning to invest another 10-15bn ($15-23bn) in the UK in the next few years, bringing its total investment to nearly $57bn, it has been ...
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Afghanistan threatens to boycott US-backed peace talks in anger at Talibans Qatar office
The United States was racing to gather up the pieces of its always fragile relationship with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan after he broke off security talks with Washington and denounced plans for the start of peace negotiations with the ...
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Syria war gives US-Jordan war games a sharp edge
The US and Jordan have ended annual joint military exercises in the Arab country, with the drills taking on heightened significance due to the war raging in neighbouring Syria. The US is reportedly increasing its military presence in Jordan. Earlier this month it said it would deploy Patriot anti-aircraft missiles and F-16 fighter jets there, drawing swift criticism from Moscow. Nineteen Arab ...
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Panic over MERS virus fades in Saudi Arabia
People in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have again started greeting friends with the traditional kiss on the cheek, and face masks in public are becoming rarer, as panic subsides over the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease that hit the country last ...
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WMD Regulation in the Middle East
"For the Syrian government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues," President Obama recently said. "So this is not an on and off switch. This is an ongoing challenge that all of us have to be concerned about." Evidently, current methods to control WMD, such as relying on ...
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MLS Vancouver 3 Chivas USA 1
Camilo Sanvezzo scored twice and had an assist as well Wednesday to bring Vancouver a 3-1 decision over Chivas USA. Vancouver (6-5-4) jumped into the top half of the Western Conference and, with 22 points, moved within six of first-place Dallas. The Whitecaps have earned 13 points in their last six games and have won back-to-back contests for the first time this season. Chivas USA (3-9-2) has ...
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Oman Air orders planes worth $473m from Boeing
With this new order, the airline now has a backlog of six 737-800s and five 737-900ERs. In addition, Oman Air has six Boeing 787-8s on order, the statement ...
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“Everything’s Up For Discussion” Open Debate in Oman
‘Things Are OK'; was the official name of an informal event that took place in Salalah's largest ballroom last Friday night with none other than H E Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs. The aim of the meeting was to invite young people in Dhofar to meet with His Excellency in an informal setting as part of the National Youth ...
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U.S. tries to save peace talks after Karzai objects to Taliban’s Qatar ‘embassy’
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked Afghanistan’s mercurial president and infuriated many of his compatriots was a ...
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Bahrain - Bahraini rights defender faces reprisals for collaborating with UN
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express their serious concern over the ongoing campaign of judicial harassment against human rights defenders in Bahrain, that includes the very recent trial of defender Mohamed Al-Maskati on freedom of assembly related charges.On 19 June 2013, human rights defender and president of the Bahrain Youth Society for ...
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KSA’s banking system ‘safest in Arab world’
Saudi banking experts here say that the Kingdom has the safest banking system in the Arab world. This comes in response to CNBC Arabia reporting earlier this week that the Kingdom recorded 5,000 fraud cases out of 1.3 million ATM cash withdrawals recently. The experts say that the security of the Saudi banking system and its top ranking in the Arab world has been confirmed by the Financial ...
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Kerry calls Karzai twice to smooth waters over Taliban talks
Hamid Karzai twice to try to mend fences over the U.S. outreach to the Taliban. The phone diplomacy occurred after Karzai said the Afghan government had suspended security talks with the United States in Kabul "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." "The secretary spoke with President ...
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Egypts BOP deficit narrowed by 81.2 pct in 9 months
The deficit in Egypt's balance of payment (BOP) narrowed by 81.2 percent to $2.1 billion in the period between July 2012 and March 2013, Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said Wednesday.In a statement, the CBE said the BOP deficit in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2012-2013 (which starts on July 1, 2012 and ends on June 30, 2013) declined thanks to the 0.7 billion dollar drop in the ...
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Kosovo representative in Serbia resigned
Kosovo liaison officer in Serbia, Lulzim Peci, resigned on Wednesday only two days after he assumed the office in Belgrade, Serbian news agency Tanug reported.Peci resigned after he received criticism from Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaqi about a statement he delivered to media on Kosovo-Serbia relations on the first day of his job."The reason of the resignation is the disagreement over ...
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Obama United States not ready to go to war
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The assault appears aimed at decisively pushing rebels back and securing the suburb of the shrine, Abdel-Rahman said. Hezbollah fighters as well as Iraqi Shiite militiamen have been reported fighting in the area in the past weeks. The international community has been largely unable to end the Syrian civil war, now in its third year, which has killed nearly ...
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Morsy’s appointees spark clashes across Egypt
Egyptians chant slogans during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's president and his Muslim Brotherhood in Luxor, Egypt, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. On Sunday, Morsi appointed 17 new governors, including seven members of the Brotherhood and one from an ex-militant group to rule the ancient city of Luxor. That appointment outraged Luxor residents, as the governor's group ...
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Lebanon on the up despite uncertainty over future conflicts
Lebanon has seen strong economic growth since the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon and the tourism sector, along with construction is experiencing strong signs of confidence from investors. If all goes well, the country may be able to shake off perceptions in the international community of a war-torn and politically unstable country.
The war in 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel had a severe impact on Lebanon. Tourism in 2006 plummeted as international holidaymakers shied away from a country seen as unstable, plagued by an internal lack of security and on the verge of another war, as Israel warned of future military action if the government did not do more to disarm Hezbollah. While some progress has been made in this regard, the greater achievement is the country’s resurgence in the areas of investment, construction and tourism even as the global economy quivers at the edge of a possible second downturn in Europe. Read more
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