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  • UAE Algeria discuss relations

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Algeria have held talks to explore new ways of enhancing bilateral cooperation in areas like industry, investment and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The discussions were held Sunday between UAE's economy minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri and the visiting Algerian Minister for Industry, SMEs and Investment Promotion, Cherif Rahmani. Both sides also ...

  • Saudi clerics blame Twitter for immoral souls

    A leading senior religious clerics in Saudi Arabia has said that Saudi citizens using Twitter will risk damnation. Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh's declaration comes as a move to attack the US-based microblogging service, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, Saudi leaders fear that Twitter and other social media services are platforms for making the dissidents voice out ...

  • Saudi woman creates history by reaching Mount Everest summit

    A Saudi woman has become the first female from the country and the youngest Arab to reach the summit of Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, was part of a four-person expedition, which also included the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the top of Mount Everest, trying to raise 1 million dollars for education projects in Nepal, the ...

  • Ajloun Castle in Jordan

    Tourists visit the Ajloun Castle, some 73 km north of the capital Amman of Jordan on May 19, 2013. Ajloun Castle, better known as Qal'at Ar-Rabad, was built by one of Saladin's generals in 1184 AD to control the iron mines of Ajloun, and to deter the Franks from invading the ...

  • Arab League organises emergency Syria meeting

    The flag of the Syrian opposition is shown at the seat of the delegation representing Syria at the Arab League summit in Doha in March. Image courtesy of The Daily ...

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Apocalypto

Apocalypto

When word first got out that Mel Gibson was taking the millions of profits and industry clout he earned from the runaway success of The Passion of the Christ (2004) and heading deep into the heart of Mexico to film an epic about the Mayan civilization starring unknown actors and fil ... ...

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  • Egypt’s NGO Funding Crackdown

    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are essential to democracy and a key way for people of all political views to band together to influence public debate. But once more, the Egyptian government is threatening to restrict NGOs that receive foreign funds. Exercised about criticism from some of these groups, the ruling party is pushing a bill that would empower the government to decide which ...

  • 10 policemen killed in attack in western Iraq

    Unidentified gunmen attacked a police station in western Iraq on Sunday evening and killed ten policemen in the deadly clash, a police source said.The gunmen clashed with the policemen with various kinds of weapons in the town ofRawa, 260 km northwest of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.After the attack the gunmen fled to an unknown destination and the security forces ...

  • 6 prisoners in Bahrain escape before being taken to court

    Checkpoints were set up with police enforcement in some parts of Bahrain on Sunday after six men accused of murder and hurling Molotov at a police station escaped while they were being transferred to court.During the High Criminal Court hearing, police officers told the judges that the suspects escaped as they were being brought to the court.The police were still tracking down the suspects on ...

  • ISAF plane makes hard landing leaving no casualty

    A plane with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made hard landing in Logar province 60 km south of Kabul on Sunday, a statement of the alliance released here said."An International Security Assistance Force C-130 had a hard landing in Logar province, Afghanistan today," the statement added.The statement without providing more details stressed that, " There ...

  • 1 killed 4 wounded in fresh clashes between rival Lebanese

    At least one people was killed and four others were wounded Sunday in clashes that erupted between the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of Sunnis Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawites Jabal Mohsen.The clashes broke out following media reports about the Syrian army's launching an offensive on the Qusayr neighborhood of Homs with the help of the Shiite Hezbollah Lebanese group.According to the state-run ...

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