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  • Escalating civil war in Syria major focus of G8 summit Escalating civil war in Syria major focus of G8 summit

    ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - The escalating civil war in Syria and the deepening divisions between the western powers and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war-torn country are to be the focus of the G8 summit that opened here Monday. Putin is likely to attack US President Barack Obama over his move to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime. "The EU is convinced that we are ...

  • G8 condemns use of chemical weapons in Syria

    G8 leaders Tuesday condemned any use of chemical weapons in Syria, and that they were deeply concerned by the growing threat from terrorism and extremism in the Middle East country. In a final communique issued after the annual G8 summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, the leaders called on all parties in the conflict to allow access to the UN investigating team, Xinhua reported. It said the ...

  • Khurshid welcomes three months respite given to Indian expats in Saudi Arabia

    External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday lauded the gesture of Saudi Arabian Government to grant three months respite to Indian immigrant workers overstaying or illegally residing in that country. "All those people who were there and did not have their complete paperwork or passports or those whose work visa had expired or those people who had received the visa for some work and ...

  • More flights for repatriation of Indians from Saudi Arabia

    Additional flights will operate between Saudi Arabia and India to help in the repatriation of illegal Indian expatriates who want to return to India from the Gulf nation, a top Indian diplomat has said. "The embassy has taken up the issue with the Indian authorities, and accordingly Air India, the national flag carrier, has expressed its readiness to operate flights," the Saudi Gazette Tuesday ...

  • Saudi Arabia e-security centre to prevent hacking

    Saudi Arabia has set up a national e-security centre to protect the country's e-system from hackers, a media report said Tuesday. Several hackers have been attacking government websites to steal data by planting undetected viruses for months, the centre's director, Abdulrahman Al Mueeqal, was quoted as saying by the Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper. The centre will review the e-security system and ...

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The Black Dahlia

The Black Dahlia

Ever since the bisected body of a murdered would-be starlet named Elizabeth Short was found in a field in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 15, 1947, the American public has maintained a morbid fascination with the grisly mystery. Questions about who killed the ... ...

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  • Afghan peace council members to talk with Taliban in Qatar Karzai

    Kabul, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Some members of Afghan High Peace Council will travel to the Gulf state of Qatar to hold formal peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. "Members of peace council will go to Qatar to initiate peace talks with the Taliban," Karzai told a joint press conference with the visiting NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Earlier ...

  • UAE Italy discuss bilateral relations

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Italy have held talks over ways to strengthen bilateral ties for economic and trade cooperation. The meet was held between UAE's Minister for Economy Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri and the Italian Minister for Economic Development, Italian Flavio Zanonato, and his accompanying ...

  • Emirates to fly 60 extra flights during Ramadan

    The Emirates will operate nearly 60 extra flights to assist pilgrims travelling to the Saudi Arabia during the holy month of Ramadan. Additional 42 services will operate to Jeddah between July 5 and Aug 16. Extra 17 flights will operate to Medina from July16 - 31. The extra flights can be accessed by travellers holding a valid Umrah visa. Those wishing to travel to the KSA for reasons others ...

  • MERS Coronavirus Kills Four More in Saudi Arabia

    DUBAI Four more people have died and three more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the four deaths were among previously registered cases. The new infections were in Eastern Province, in the capital Riyadh and in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Saudi Arabia has been the country ...

  • Russia surprised by Egypt severing ties with Syria

    The Russian government has expressed surprise over Egypt's decision to cut off diplomatic relations with Syria. "This, quite unexpected decision of the Egyptian leadership, would unlikely demonstrate Egypt's positive role in the regional efforts to settle the Syrian problem," reported Xinhua citing a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Monday. Stating that Russia perceived Cairo's move as a ...

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