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  • UAE to raise standard of education

    The announcement of the UAE's Ministry of Education about the School Leadership Project to raise standards in the country's education sector is an important initiative which needs to be highly commended, a UAE daily has said. "Over the next five years, 700 education professionals in public schools in the UAE will undergo rigorous training in international best practices in teaching to set the ...

  • Assad welcomes Russia-US understanding doubts Wests intentions

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has welcomed the new consensus between Moscow and Washington regarding finding a political approach to solve Syria's 26-month- old political crisis, but also expressed skepticism about the West 's real intentions."We have welcomed the Russian-American rapprochement and we hope that there would be an international meeting to help the Syrians to ...

  • 5 Al Qaeda members killed in US drone strike in Yemens south

    A US drone strike killed at least five members of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda offshoot in the southern province of Abyan on Saturday, a government official told Xinhua."About five terrorists were killed when a drone strike targeted an Al Qaeda convoy that was passing through a desert road in the town of Jaar in Abyan province," the government source said on condition of anonymity.Local ...

  • Syrian troops advance in northern southern areas as rebels storm

    The Syrian army on Saturday advanced in fighting rebels in a number of areas in southern and northern Syria as the rebels managed to storm a series of central towns, reports said.A Syrian military source was quoted by the state-run SANA news agency as saying that the Syrian army attacked a group affiliated with the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in the Damascus suburb of Adra and its surroundings ...

  • Iran to allow inspectors in after protocol signed diplomat

    Tehran will allow international inspectors to enter its nuclear facilities after a protocol is signed, the Iranian ambassador to Russia said Saturday.The condition for observers with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect Iran's Parchin nuclear facilities is that a protocol between the two sides should be signed, Ambassador Reza Sajjadi told local reporters.Sajjadi said ...

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The Ring Two

The Ring Two

The Ring Two is a different and, I would argue, slightly better film that its predecessor, 2001's hit The Ring, although it probably won't please audiences the way the first film did because its scariness is less visceral and more emotional. It takes a while to get going, but on ... ...

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  • Irans Jalili vows not to abdicate nuclear right if elected

    Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and presidential candidate Saeed Jalili pledged not to retreat from the Islamic republic's nuclear rights if he is elected as the president, Press TV reported Saturday.Jalili, who is also the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said that he will pursue a policy of resistance against Western pressures if he wins in the upcoming ...

  • Yemeni intelligence colonel killed by Al Qaeda suspects

    Suspected Al Qaeda gunmen shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer on Friday night in the southeastern province of Hadramout, a government official told Xinhua Saturday.Abdullah Rabaky, a colonel at the military intelligence agency in Hadrmout province, was gunned down when a militant on a motorcycle shot at his car, the local official said on condition of anonymity.The drive-by shooting attack, ...

  • 2 people killed 5 policemen kidnapped in clashes in Iraqs Anbar

    At least two people were killed in clashes between tribesmen and Iraqi security forces in the western province of Anbar on Saturday, while gunmen separately kidnapped five policemen in the province, a provincial security source said.The clashes erupted near the provincial capital city of Ramadi when an unit of security forces tried to enter a tribal area near Ramadi, some 100 km west of the ...

  • Senior police killed in Taliban attack in western Afghan town

    Two Taliban militants riding a motorbike opened fire and killed a senior police officer in Farah province, 695 km west of Afghan capital Kabul, a local official confirmed Saturday."Ghani Khan, the police chief of Khak-e-Safid district, was visiting Charbagh area outside provincial capital Farah city last night when two Taliban rebels riding a motorcycle came across and sprayed bullets, ...

  • Gunmen kill anti-terrorism officer 4 people in Baghdad

    An anti-terrorism police officer and four people were shot dead by gunmen in the southern suburb of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.The incident occurred at dawn when gunmen broke into the house of the officer in al-Rasheed suburb and shot him dead with his wife and two children, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The attacker also shot ...

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