Fri. May 16, 2008
Middle East:
Euronews.net
May 16, 2008
An
Arab League delegation is expected to reach a deal on
Lebanon, defusing a crisis that led to six days of armed conflict. On Wednesday,
the US-backed ...
... on Hizbollah's communications network and reinstate Beirut's airport chief, believed to have links to the group, which is supported by Syria and Iran. ...
New York Times
May 15, 2008
By ROBERT F. WORTH and NADA BAKRI
Beirut, Lebanon - The warring political camps in
Lebanon agreed Thursday to hold renewed talks in a deal negotiated by ...
The agreement also appeared to be a setback for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, vocal opponents of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. Even the makeup of the Arab delegation ...
Economist
May 15, 2008
Syria's removal alienated its many allies inside
Lebanon and prompted it to sponsor what looks like a campaign of sabotage, including assassinations. ...
Meanwhile, Hizbullah's lock-step allegiance to Shia Iran frightened not just Lebanese nationalists, but also the predominantly Sunni Arab world and Western ...
Arab Times
May 15, 2008
Qatar's main index jumped above 12000 points for the first time in almost 2-1/2 years, led by Qatar
Islamic Bank and Qatar National Bank. ...
Oman's benchmark ended down as Galfar engineering & Construction Co dropped almost 2 percent after it reported lower-than-expected first-quarter profit, ...
Yahoo! News
May 15, 2008
Africasia
May 15, 2008
Wael Ismail was born in the Bekaa refugee camp in
Jordan and knows
Palestine only as a concept based on pictures and television. But his burning passion is ...
Nearly 600 men, women and children demonstrated in the Jordanian capital Amman on Thursday evening, demanding the right to return. ...
AME Info
May 15, 2008
New Statesman
May 15, 2008
Today,
Israel is still at war with
Syria and
Lebanon and locked into a bitter conflict with the Palestinians of
Gaza and the
West Bank. ...
The explanation that Israelis usually give for the failure to achieve peace in the Middle East can be summed up in two words: Arab intransigence. ...
... conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. The PLO recognised Israel; Israel recognised the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people; ...
Reuters
May 16, 2008
Hollywood Reporter
May 16, 2008
CANNES --
filmmakers picked for the
Middle East International Film Festival could hit the jackpot. Festival reps in Cannes on Friday announced several new ...
Euronews.net
May 16, 2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 16, 2008
Even as we console ourselves with the fact that the Bush presidency is entering its twilight months, we can't help but wish, as artist/
political activist ...
Washington Post
May 16, 2008
On the second day of his
Middle East trip, Bush toured the historic Dead Sea fortress Masada before returning here for an address to
Israel's
Knesset that, ...
ABC News
May 15, 2008
ABC's Eloise Harper reports: Senator
Hillary Clinton's motorcade traveled down a dirt road in Bath,
South Dakota into Jones' Farm Thursday afternoon so she ...
NPR
May 15, 2008
by Eric Westervelt Israeli
soldiers inspect cars at a checkpoint near the northern
West Bank village of Beit Furik. Palestinian Ayesha Abdul Karim passes ...
Reuters
May 15, 2008
(Reuters) -
US President George W. Bush arrived in the
Middle East on Wednesday facing broad scepticism over his chances of securing an Israeli-Palestinian ...
Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2008
Yahoo! News
May 15, 2008
At every step of the way,
the Bush administration has not missed an opportunity to bolster
Iran's position in the
Middle East. It destroyed Iran's principal ...
Washington Post
May 15, 2008
On the second day of his Middle East trip, Bush toured the historic Dead Sea fortress Masada before returning here for a scheduled address to the Israeli ...
코리아타임즈
May 15, 2008
The current account deficit with the Middle East has been surging on increasing imports of oil and gas from the region. The trade deficit with the Middle ...
Xinhua
May 15, 2008
Beijing, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Sun Bigan,
China's Special Envoy on the
Middle East, will attend the Palestinian Investor's Conference held in
Bethlehem, ...
Ha'aretz
May 15, 2008
Yet we must also look for new ways to expand human capital throughout the Middle East." He bemoaned the fact that there are still many people in the region ...
Boston Herald
May 15, 2008
Bush's only reference to ongoing peace talks came near the end of his speech as the president painted a vision of the Middle East in another 60 years when ...
Malaysia Star
May 15, 2008
Bloomberg
May 15, 2008
The office will focus on selling mortgages to the
Middle East's 45000 expatriate
Australians and New Zealanders as well as providing export and trade ...
Sify
May 15, 2008
Dubai:
US President George W. Bush's three-day
Middle East visit has been viewed sceptically in the Arab media, as it questioned whether he could succeed in ...
WLOS
May 15, 2008
Jerusalem (AP) --
President Bush is using
Israel's 60th anniversary as a cause for optimism that democratic change can happen in the
Mideast, where he is ...
Bloomberg
May 15, 2008
Vietnam plans to raise exports to
Africa, the
Middle East and
South Asia to $2.3 billion this year, an increase of 33 percent from last year, ...
Washington Post
May 15, 2008
The center is under siege in
Lebanon and across the
Middle East as the region becomes more polarized between Iranian-backed extremists and US-backed forces. ...
Boston Globe
May 15, 2008
... of a
Mideast peace agreement. But the mere professing of good intentions will never be sufficient to make peace. "I just don't see how the
Middle East ...
Times Online
May 14, 2008
The past two years have seen the beginnings of a transformation in media in the Gulf, helped by rulers willing to risk a hands-off approach towards ...
International Herald Tribune
May 14, 2008
Bush's visit here, his first stop on a five-day, three country
Middle East tour, began with a greeting at the airport in
Tel Aviv by a 50-person military ...
San Francisco Chronicle
May 14, 2008
When the subject of Asian Pacific Islander
culture comes up, the
Middle East is not the first region that comes to mind, which is exactly why the organizers ...
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