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GAZAN NGO HELPS DEAF COMMUNITY DEVELOP SKILLS NEEDED TO EARN A LIVING
Posted on May 7, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 7TH MAY) A non-profit organisation in the Gaza strip striving to improve the lives for deaf children and adults by providing education, health care, social services, and work opportunities has... -
EGYPT NEEDS TO DO MORE TO SECURE IMF LOAN, SAYS IMF OFFICIAL
Posted on May 6, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 6TH MAY) Egypt needs to do more to secure a $3.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, including gathering broad political support and identifying other sources to finance its... -
KHAMENEI VOTES IN IRANIAN RUN-OFF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 4TH MAY) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei voted on Friday (May 4) in a run-off parliamentary election that could establish a new balance between Iran’s top leader and its... -
IRAQIS CALL FOR JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN FUGITIVE VP TRIAL
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 3RD MAY) Iraqis said they hoped for judicial independence on the trial of fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Thursday (May 3), hours before the start of the trial in... -
1ST ANNIVERSARY OF BIN LADEN’S DEATH
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No CommentsOn the eve of the first anniversary of Bin Laden’s killing, Vygaudas Usackas, the European Union’s ambassador to Kabul, reflects on how that optimism has faded. Just after news broke... -
TOP BAGHDAD OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsA simmering dispute between Iraq’s central government and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan is an internal affair, a top Baghdad official said yesterday in an implicit rebuff of U.S. efforts... -
INTERNAL CRISIS HARMS SYRIA’S TRADE WITH NEIGHBORING NATIONS
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe year-long crisis in Syria has undermined its bilateral trade with its neighboring countries, a Syrian economic analyst said on Wednesday. The plunging manufacturing capacity within Syria, coupled with... -
ISRAEL DENIES NUCLEAR LINKS WITH AZERBAIJAN
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsIsrael denied yesterday that it had gained access to air bases in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which borders Iran. Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, who arrived in Baku to... -
EGYPT VOTE CHAOS, MYRIAD OF CAMPAIGN POSTERS LEAVE VOTERS CONFUSED
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 23RD APRIL) The race for the Egyptian presidency has been redefined by the disqualification of Hosni Mubarak’s spy chief and prominent Islamists, including a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a popular Salafi... -
YEMENIS RETURN TO TAGHYEER SQ. IN BID TO ACHIEVE ALL REVOLUTION DEMANDS
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 23RD APRIL) Two months after presidential elections that aimed to end more than one year of violence, protesters in Yemen returned to Taghyeer (Change) Square in the capital — the...