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  • Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list

    Ireland continues to suffer from its false implication in the high profile assassination of a militant in Dubai more than three years ago. Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was on a visit to the UAE on his way to China from Damascus. Twenty seven suspects were named by Dubai Police and it soon became apparent most of them were carrying passports belonging to citizens of other countries. ...

  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • Damac to deliver Oceanscape apartments four years late Damac to deliver Oceanscape apartments four years late

    Damac Properties has begun handing over apartments in its long-awaited Oceanscape project in Abu Dhabi. Most investors bought apartments off-the-plan in 2006, paying 30% of their purchase price in the first 120 days of reserving their property. After seven years Damac has finally finished the project, one of its first and probably last Abu Dhabi ventures. Despite being four years late, ...

  • Chidambaram in UAE holds bilateral talks

    India's Finance Minister P. Chidambaram met Abu Dhabi crown prince Gen. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss bilateral relations between the UAE and India. Sheikh Mohamed, also the deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received Chidambaram at the Emirates Palace Sunday. The two leaders discussed ways to promote relations in the common interest of the two friendly countries ...

  • Syrian Opposition Disputes Prevent Decision on Peace Talks

    Syria's main opposition coalition has held an unscheduled fourth day of meetings in Istanbul (Turkey) as internal disputes prevent it from deciding whether to join a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference with Damascus. Syrian National Coalition members on Sunday said the main dispute concerns whether to grant Saudi Arabia a bigger role in the group, by expanding its membership to ...

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Gosford Park [DVD]

Gosford Park [DVD]

It will likely be different for each viewer, but, for me, it was the third time around that Robert Altman's Gosford Park finally clicked. On the first viewing, I was aware that I was seeing something impressive, but I found it distant and hard to connect with, a daunting experience. There were just too many characters, too many interactions, too many details about dwindling social customs- ... ...

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  • External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid terms Maoist attacks as threat to humanity

    External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid who is on an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday termed the Maoist attacks on Congress leaders in Chattisgarh as a threat to humanity. Speaking exclusively to ANI Khurshid said: This is a big, big tragedy as they were great, brave leaders. This just shouldn't have happened. I am not too sure of the happenings as different versions are coming in. ...

  • Israel drills unconventional warfare

    Amid mounting tensions with Syria, Israel's military and rescue forces on Sunday launched a nationwide drill aimed at testing their readiness to cope with an unconventional weapons attack on the home front.The four-day exercise, named "Steadfast Home Front 1," simulates hundreds of missiles -- some armed with chemical warheads and fired from neighboring foes Syria, Lebanon, Gaza ...

  • Abbas says Palestinians not to accept temporary borders

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday the Palestinians will not accept a state with temporary borders."Temporary borders will not end the conflict, they will only prolong it," Abbas said when addressing the World Economic Forum held in Jordan in the presence of Israeli President Shimon Peres and US Secretary of State John Kerry.The Palestinians want the creation of a ...

  • Yemen says US to repatriate Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo

    Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al- Qerbi said Sunday that the United States will repatriate Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay in groups."The US authorities will transfer Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo prison to Yemen in groups," al-Qerbi said in a statement carried by the Yemeni defence ministry's website."We will start to make contact with the US authorities to ...

  • Syria rebels feud over command ahead of talks

    ISTANBUL: Talks by Syria’s opposition to choose a new leadership before an international peace conference stalled Sunday over proposals to lessen Qatar’s influence on the rebel forces, opposition sources said. The disarray in the opposition ranks emerged as the Syrian foreign minister said President Bashar Assad’s government would take part "in principle" in the ...

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