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  • Saudi clerics blame Twitter for immoral souls

    A leading senior religious clerics in Saudi Arabia has said that Saudi citizens using Twitter will risk damnation. Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh's declaration comes as a move to attack the US-based microblogging service, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, Saudi leaders fear that Twitter and other social media services are platforms for making the dissidents voice out ...

  • Saudi woman creates history by reaching Mount Everest summit

    A Saudi woman has become the first female from the country and the youngest Arab to reach the summit of Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, was part of a four-person expedition, which also included the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the top of Mount Everest, trying to raise 1 million dollars for education projects in Nepal, the ...

  • 10 policemen killed in attack in western Iraq

    Unidentified gunmen attacked a police station in western Iraq on Sunday evening and killed ten policemen in the deadly clash, a police source said.The gunmen clashed with the policemen with various kinds of weapons in the town ofRawa, 260 km northwest of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.After the attack the gunmen fled to an unknown destination and the security forces ...

  • 6 prisoners in Bahrain escape before being taken to court

    Checkpoints were set up with police enforcement in some parts of Bahrain on Sunday after six men accused of murder and hurling Molotov at a police station escaped while they were being transferred to court.During the High Criminal Court hearing, police officers told the judges that the suspects escaped as they were being brought to the court.The police were still tracking down the suspects on ...

  • ISAF plane makes hard landing leaving no casualty

    A plane with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made hard landing in Logar province 60 km south of Kabul on Sunday, a statement of the alliance released here said."An International Security Assistance Force C-130 had a hard landing in Logar province, Afghanistan today," the statement added.The statement without providing more details stressed that, " There ...

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Apocalypto

Apocalypto

When word first got out that Mel Gibson was taking the millions of profits and industry clout he earned from the runaway success of The Passion of the Christ (2004) and heading deep into the heart of Mexico to film an epic about the Mayan civilization starring unknown actors and fil ... ...

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  • 1 killed 4 wounded in fresh clashes between rival Lebanese

    At least one people was killed and four others were wounded Sunday in clashes that erupted between the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of Sunnis Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawites Jabal Mohsen.The clashes broke out following media reports about the Syrian army's launching an offensive on the Qusayr neighborhood of Homs with the help of the Shiite Hezbollah Lebanese group.According to the state-run ...

  • Assad Hezbollah forces advance into Qusair

    Hezbollah fighters have reportedly advanced into the main square of besieged Qusair, with fierce battles continuing overnight Monday for control of the strategic city near the Lebanese border. At least 40 people were killed, activist organizations said, in battles that saw forces loyal to ...

  • Gunmen abduct father of Syria deputy FM official

    Faisal Mekdad Saturday, apparently in reprisal for the arrest of one of their relatives, according to a government source and an activist. "Today armed men abducted Mr. Mekdad’s father from his home in the village of Ghossom," in the southern province of Deraa, the government source said on condition of anonymity. "They beat him up in front of his family then took him ...

  • Riyadh strives to avoid Afghan-style blowback from conflict

    RIYADH: Chastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudis fought before returning to sow terror at home, the kingdom is battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say.In recent months, Saudi officials have issued increasingly stern warnings against volunteers from the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom heading off to fight alongside the mainly Sunni ...

  • Salafist protester killed in clashes with Tunisia security forces

    Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist ...

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