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  • Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race

    TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Afghanistans Helmand Province Sees Fresh Clashes Conflicting Claims

    Fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan government forces has erupted in a highly-volatile corner of Helmand province. Afghan officials claimed victory Wednesday in southern Helmand province, saying they turned back a series of attacks by Taliban militants in Sangin. A spokesman for the provincial governor estimated the number of attackers at close to 1,000, including Arabs and ...

  • UAE leaders hold talks with foreign officials

    Leaders of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have met senior officials of the US, the Czech Republic and Kenya and held talks on enhancing ties. Lt. Gen. Obaid Mohammed Al Ka'abi, undersecretary of the UAE ministry of defence, met US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics amp; Material Readiness) Alan F. Estevez. Ras Al Khaimah ruler Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi met visiting First Deputy ...

  • Gunmen kill 12 Iraqis in attack on brothel

    At least 12 people, including seven women and five men, were killed Wednesday in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a brothel in Baghdad, an interior ministry source told Xinhua. The armed men broke into the brothel in Zayouna district and opened fire, leaving 12 people dead and two injured, the source said on condition of anonymity. The attackers managed to flee, the source ...

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Catch-22

Catch-22

The decade of the 1970s, which is generally considered to be one of the most vibrant and creative periods of American filmmaking, was bookended by two enormous, challenging, high-budget experimental films about war made by successful, established directors who almost lost their careers in the process. The decade ended in 1979 with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which retold Joseph ... ...

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  • Exact date of beginning of Ramadan month in Azerbaijan made public

    The exact date of the beginning of Ramadan month in Azerbaijan has been made public. Deputy director of the Shamakhi-based Tusi Astrophysical Observatory of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Khidir Mikayilov ...

  • Israel seeking to revive peace talks with Palestinians Netanyahu

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday that his country is seeking to revive peace talks with the Palestinians.At the beginning of a meeting with Kerry, Netanyahu said "above all, we want to restart the peace talks with the Palestinians."Kerry arrived in Israel on Thursday as part of the ongoing efforts exerted by the US ...

  • Former Israeli PM offered major concession to Palestinians in 2008

    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered far-reaching territorial concessions to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 as part of a future peace deal, Israeli news website Walla reported Thursday.According to the report, in a meeting between Olmert and Abbas held on Sept. 16, 2008 in Jerusalem, the former drew a map of the borders of the future Palestinian state along the Israeli ...

  • Iran holds US Britain responsible for killings in Syria deputy

    An Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister said the United States and Britain are responsible for the killings in Syria, Press TV reported Thursday."The United States and Britain have made numerous strategic mistakes in the region, including in Syria, and are considered responsible for the killing of the Syrian people," Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, Hossein ...

  • 7 killed 40 injured in clashes in Lebanons Tripoli

    At least seven people were killed and 40 others injured in overnight clashes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, local security official told Xinhua Thursday.On Wednesday, gunfire between the rival neighborhoods of Alawite Jabal Mohsen backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh, the opponents of the Syrian administration, broke out in Tripoli, bringing the total ...

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