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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, ...

  • Lebanese singer Razan introduces dubstep to the Arab World with new video

    Who would have thought that scandalous Razan would be the one introducing dubstep to the Arab world? The Lebanese bombshell Razan Moghrabi had been trying to lay low ...

  • Revenge Landmines of the Arab Spring - By Joe Sheffer

    In the mountains of Yemen, a strange and deadly face-off between elite soldiers and rebellious villagers could have big international ...

Movie Review

Monster

Monster

Like last years Dahmer, Patty Jenkins Monster is a daring film that attempts to find the humanity in a notorious serial killer. In this case, the film searches beneath the leather-thick skin of Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of murdering seven of her johns in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jenkins doesnt try to construct an easy psychological framework by de ... ...

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  • Qatar drops bid to take UN agency from Montreal

    When Qatar made a sudden move to take the headquarters of a UN agency from Montreal, Canada launched into a no-delay, no-quarter campaign to beat it back. On Thursday, Qatar cried uncle and called Ottawa to say it was withdrawing its bid to win the seat of the International Civil Aviation ...

  • Lebanese president accuses local politicians of turning country

    Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman said Friday that local politicians are turning Lebanon into battleground through the unrest in the northern city of Tripoli and fighting in the Syrian region of al-Qusayr.On the occasion of the Resistance and Liberation Day, Suleiman said that Lebanese people have not liberated themselves from their allegiances to political powers, stressing that ...

  • Death toll reaches 23 in clashes in Lebanons Tripoli

    The death toll from clashes in Lebanon's Tripoli has risen to 23 as cautious calm prevailed in the northern city Friday after fierce battles between pro- and anti-Syria neighborhoods, a local security source told Xinhua.According to the source, the calm had been occasionally violated by intermittent sniper bullets and a rocket that hit Naji Center, where only material damage was caused.At ...

  • Food poisoning hits 150 female students in Egypt

    At least 150 female students were hit by food poisoning on Friday at Zagazig University in Egypt's Nile Delta province of Sharqiya, senior health ministry official told Xinhua."150 female students were hit by food poisoning in Zagazig University and no death cases have been reported," Health Ministry 's spokesman Yahya Moussa told Xinhua on Friday.Moussa noted that 100 ...

  • ECLECTIC RANT Time for Israel to Accept the Arab Peace Initiative as s Basis for Peace Negotiations

    ) unanimously endorsed by the 22-member Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit of the Arab League? It is time for Israel to accept the API as a basis for peace negotiations. The Arab League latest proposed API to Israel states in brief that if Israel ends the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and allows the Palestinians to build their own state, the Arab world will ...

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