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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 ...

  • UAE OIC condemn killing of British soldier

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have strongly condemned the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, London. "This brutal act is rejected by all religions and deserves every condemnation and denunciation," UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said. Sheikh Abdullah also expressed the UAE's solidarity with Britain in combating ...

  • Air Arabia launches flight to Abha in Saudi Arabia

    Air Arabia, the largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East, has launched a flight to Abha in Saudi Arabia from the airlines' main hub in Sharjah. The new service marks Air Arabia's eighth destination in Saudi Arabia and the 85th worldwide. Air Arabia now offers two weekly flights to Abha. Offering 88 weekly non-stop flights to Saudi Arabia from Sharjah and another hub in Alexandria, Egypt, ...

  • Qatar withdraws bid to move UN agency from Montreal

    Qatar has withdrawn its bid to take the headquarters of a major UN agency away from Montreal.The small, oil-rich Gulf nation made a surprise bid in late April to move the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets international rules for airplane transportation - sending the Canadian government into what Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird called a "tooth and ...

  • Syrian refugees in Jordan unmoved by peace bid

    A Syrian woman buys supplies from a make-shift store, at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan, Monday, April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad ...

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

When are they going to figure it out? How many bad movies based on popular video games does Hollywood have to make before they finally figure out that animated computer games, especially ones that have no real point besides shooting things, don't translate well to big-screen feature films? ...

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  • U.S. spy servers found in Syria spark queries

    BEIRUT: Reporters Without Borders is calling for explanations from a Californian Web security company after a hacktivist group discovered 34 of its servers were being used by the Syrian government, potentially to spy on Internet users. The Blue Coat servers use Deep Packet Inspection technology "to analyze and control the activities of Syrian Internet users – censuring websites, ...

  • Regime likely to succeed in bid to take Qusair secure vital corridor

    Aleppo last summer." Opposition activist Hadi Abdullah, from Qusair, said rebels repelled a government advance in the town’s outskirts Thursday while George Sabra, the acting head of the National Coalition, urged fighters to "rush to the rescue" of the town. However, analysts say that due to their superior military capacity and manpower, it is likely President Bashar ...

  • Bahrainis protest over raid on ayatollah’s home

    Bahraini women hold pictures of Bahraini senior Shiite cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem during a protest against the regime and to show solidarity with the cleric in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on May 17, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ...

  • Ahead of hajj WHO to help virus-hit Riyadh

    Saudi Arabia dig deeper into deadly outbreaks of a new SARS-like virus to draw up advice ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, which attracts millions of Muslims. The U.N. agency, which is not currently recommending any restrictions on travel to the kingdom or screening of passengers at airports or entry points, will send a second team of experts in the coming weeks, WHO ...

  • Iran stacks presidential candidate list with safe Khamenei men

    FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, ...

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