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DUBAI- Huwaida Arraf, a key member of the Free Gaza Movement, said the group is raising money and organising for another and hopefully bigger flotilla that would cross the Mediterranean to Gaza.
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WASHINGTON - Octavia Nasr, senior editor of Middle East affairs at CNN, is leaving the US television news network after sending a message on Twitter praising the late Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
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CAIRO: Egypt, whose head of mission in Baghdad was killed in 2005, is to open two consulates in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmad Abou al-Gheit announced on Tuesday.
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When Muslims want to pray in Rutherford County, many go to an office building on Middle Tennessee Boulevard that houses the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.
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ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates dismissed as "inaccurate" on Wednesday statements attributed to its ambassador in Washington backing possible military action over Iran's nuclear programme.
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RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's Kingdom group controlled by tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Tuesday it would launch a regional 24-hour news channel to be headed by prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Jewish settlements control more than 42 per cent of the West Bank, and much of that land was seized from Palestinian landowners in defiance of an Israeli supreme court ban, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday.
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AMMAN - The State Security Court (SSC) on Tuesday sentenced three former officials and a businessman to three years in prison after convicting them of bribery in connection with the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC) expansion project.
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AMMAN– Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Monday discussed bilateral ties and the latest developments in the region with his British counterpart William Hague.
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AMMAN - Although important improvements were registered in the status of Jordanian women over the past five years, many challenges remain to be addressed, activists said on Tuesday.
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AMMAN – Minister of Finance Mohammad Abu Hammour on Tuesday said the government plans to issue bonds worth half a billion dollars in international financial markets to provide the treasury with needed funds.
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