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  • Meeting of Syrian opposition leaders begins in Istanbul Meeting of Syrian opposition leaders begins in Istanbul

    ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition leaders Thursday began their three-day meeting in this Turkish capital city to decide on their participation in talks aimed at end the civil war in the country. As the meeting began in Istanbul a prominent Syrian figure in the opposition proposed a transition plan for the country that requires President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a senior aide and ...

  • UAE issues stamp to commemorate satellite

    Emirates Post has issued a stamp to showcase the UAE's achievement in the field of science and technology, and to commemorate the "Y1A", the first multipurpose satellite by Yahsat. The satellite, a milestone for the nation, is designed to provide advanced satellite services to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South West Asia. The stamp is available in a denomination of four ...

  • Barred from poll ex-president Rafsanjani calls Iranian leaders ignorant

    Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran's leadership of incompetence and ignorance just days after he was barred from standing in an election next month, the opposition Kaleme website reported on Thursday.Rafsanjani's comments appeared to add to the political conflict between those loyal to the leadership and opposition groups who have been marginalized since ...

  • IAEA validates progress Iran

    A new report by the UN atomic watchdog validates Iran's progress in its "peaceful" nuclear activities despite international sanctions, the country's envoy to the agency said on Thursday.The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had accelerated the installation of advanced uranium enrichment equipment at its central Natanz plant, and was potentially ...

  • Egypt tourism recovery forecast for 2014

    While tourist numbers to Egypt have risen in the first four months this year, a full recovery would not be likely until at least 2014, according to economist forecasts. The number of travellers visiting Egypt in the first four months of 2013 rose 11.8 percent from a year earlier, after falling by a third in the year after the uprising revolt, Reuters reported. Tourism revenue rose 16.2 ...

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Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) [DVD]

Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) [DVD]

In an article Michelangelo Antonioni wrote in the late 1940s, he imagined a fictional situation in which an Italian director (obviously his stand-in) approached the Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn about making a color film that doesnt have fixed colors. So you see, Mr. Goldwyn, Antonioni wro ... ...

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  • Syrian opposition mulls dialogue with regime

    Istanbul Thursday to discuss its expansion, the election of a new president, and whether it will participate in the dialogue proposed by the U.S. and Russia scheduled to take place ...

  • Be a fighter not a killer coalition tells rebels

    Syria must be investigated. The U.N. report stated that "Government forces and affiliated militias have committed extra-judicial executions, breaching international human rights law. This conduct also constitutes the war crime of murder. Where murder was committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population, with knowledge of that attack, it is a crime against ...

  • Opposition 15 executed in Halfaya

    BEIRUT: Fifteen Syrians were executed by pro-regime militia in a town in Hama province Thursday after government troops overran the area, the ...

  • Syria conflict makes Palestinians refugees for second time

    DAMASCUS: Syria’s fighting has uprooted more than half of the country’s 530,000 Palestinians – descendants of refugees from a Middle East conflict more than half a century ago – and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of ...

  • Police crackdown on radical Islamists tests stability in Tunisia

    Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with police Sunday after Tunisia's Interior Ministry banned their annual conference that was to be held in Ettadhamen, near ...

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