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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, ...

  • 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 ...

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Blithe Spirit [Blu-Ray]

Blithe Spirit [Blu-Ray]

Blithe Spirit, the third collaboration between director David Lean and playwright Noel Coward, is a fitfully amusing, but also somewhat clunky supernatural drawing-room farce. Lean was quite vocal about his dislike of Cowards play (he thought it frivolous and superficial), which ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Royal Congratulatory Messages To Jordan

    Bandar Seri Begawan - His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam has consented to send a congratulatory message to His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and member of the royal family, as well as the people of Jordan, on the occasion of Jordan's Independence ...

  • US Turkey Qatar seek urgent UN rights debate on Syria

    The United States, Turkey and Qatar called Friday for an urgent debate on Syria at the UN's top human rights body next week, citing the escalating conflict and the regime's assault on the central town of ...

  • Bahrains GPZ in deal with 1800 workers to end strike

    Bahraini labour ministry has said around 1,800 workers at G P Zachariades (GPZ) contracting firm who went on strike last week, claiming they hadn't been paid for the past two months, have returned to work, Gulf Daily News has reported. "There was an agreement that the company would pay one and a half months salary and the balance would be paid in a couple of days," said the ...

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