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 Referendum Vs Large Autonomy; two opposing arguments!
 Why are Russians Converting to Islam?
 To live within our means
Referendum Vs Large Autonomy; two opposing arguments!
Why are Russians Converting to Islam?
To live within our means
Referendum Vs Large Autonomy; two opposing arguments!
Why are Russians Converting to Islam?
To live within our means
To live within our means
To live within our means
To live within our means
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'24' Justifications for torture
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 Last year when I visited the Pentagon as Today's Zaman columnists, the Pentagon's support for "24," amongst other things, attracted my attention, It was quite interesting seeing a Pentagon section informing visitors which productions are supported by the US military ,There was no explanation about the nature of this "support " However, I said to myself then these productions supported by the Pentagon must be supporting the Pentagon in return "24" is a very successful television series; there is no doubt about it.
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Mixed signals on US jobless rate
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 The US unemployment rate has reached a five-month low of 9,7 per cent, despite US employers reporting that they cut 20,000 jobs from their payrolls in January Before Friday's announcement from the US labour department, it was widely reported that the number of employed was likely to rise by between 5,000 and 15,000 The apparent discrepancy between number of jobs lost and the improvement in the unemployment rate reflect the department's use of two different surveys for collecting the data,The jobless rate is decided based on information gathered from households, while the change in the number of people receiving a paycheck in determined by figures provided by companies,A sharp increase in the number of people giving up looking for work is believed to have helped depress the jobless rate.
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HM the King appoints Abdelouafi Laftit CEO of a company to develop Tangier City harbour area
HM King Mohammed VI received, on Monday in Tangier, Abdelouafi Laftit whom the Monarch appointed CEO of a company tasked with redeveloping the Tangier City harbour area,The new company is to run a major project that will help redevelop the Tangier city port area following the upcoming transfer of the vast majority of maritime activities to the new port Tanger-Med,The capital of the company will be held by the State, the Hassan II Fund, the city of Tangier, the National Ports Agency and the Promotion and Development Agency of the Northern provinces.
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King of Bahrain receives Princess Lalla Amina
King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, received, on Friday in Manama, Princess Lalla Amina, president of the Moroccan Federation of equestrian sports and of Special Olympics Morocco,During the meeting, attended by the Moroccan ambassador to Bahrain, Mohamed Ait Ouali, Lalla Amina handed over a written message from HM king Mohammed VI to the king of Bahrain,The Bahraini monarch reaffirmed on this occasion his country's determination to boost bilateral relations in various fields,Princess Lalla Amina also visited the stables of "Al Qudra" village, where she was received by Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, President of Bahrain's Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation.
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Washington reaffirms its position on autonomy plan in Sahara
United States ambassador in Rabat Samuel Kaplan reaffirmed on Monday the US position on Morocco's autonomy plan in the Sahara, "Our position with regard to the Sahara, as expressed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has not changed," Kaplan told the press following a meeting with State minister Mohamed El Yazghi Clinton said at the 6th Forum for the Future, held November 2-3 in Marrakech, that there is "no change" in the position of the United States on Morocco's initiative to grant autonomy to the Sahara, an initiative that Washington described on several occasions as "serious" and "credible."
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New sanctions urged over Iran move
The United States and France have called for fresh sanctions against Iran after Tehran formally said it would begin enriching higher-grade nuclear fuel to a level of 20 per cent Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said Iran should face "strong sanctions" over its nuclear programme, a French official said following a meeting between the two men in Paris Earlier on Monday, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Tehran had informed the UN atomic agency that it would begin enriching the fuel from Tuesday.
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Yanukovych 'wins Ukraine election'
Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition leader, has claimed a slender win in presidential elections but Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival in Sunday's runoff for the post, has refused to concede defeat Central Election Commission results showed that with just 1,58 per cent of the vote yet to be counted, Yanukovich was 2,79 percentage points ahead of Tymoshenko, the country's prime minister, who can no longer overtake him.
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Straw denies ignoring Iraq advice
Jack Straw, Britain's foreign minister during the Iraq war, has denied that he ignored advice that the 2003 invasion was illegal, during his second appearance before a public inquiry into the conflictSpeaking in London, Straw said that two months before the war he read "with great care" an opinion given by Michael Wood, his chief legal adviser at the time, but had rejected it because it contradicted previous advice.
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Egypt arrests Brotherhood members
Egyptian security forces have detained three of the Muslim Brotherhood's senior leaders and at least 10 other members,Mahmoud Ezzat, the Brotherhood's newly elected deputy leader, and two other members of the group's guidance council - identified as Essam el-Erian and Abdul-Rahman el-Bir - were arrested in the early hours of Monday A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media, said they were arrested for engaging in banned political activity.
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Israeli forces raid West Bank camp
Israeli forces have raided a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, arresting at least 40 peopleThe arrests on Monday at the Shuafat camp in annexed east Jerusalem were part of an operation that Israeli police said was aimed at "putting order" in the area Al Jazeera's Elias Karram, reporting from the camp, said: "The raid was divided into two parts: the first of which ended on Monday when Israeli army and intelligence forces invaded the came and detained around 40 poeple based on their political affliation - either to Hamas or Fatah.
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Piracy on high seas
The battle against Somali pirates continues in the Indian Ocean International naval forces, most recently the Danes, score the odd success, but nothing yet has deterred these Somali fishermen from continuing the substantially more lucrative business of seizing cargo ships and ransoming them and their luckless crew for millions of dollars It stands to reason that as more sophisticated technology is deployed, now including pilotless spy planes, the international patrols in this vast area of ocean are going to improve their ability to interdict attacking pirates Equally, as owners sign up to improved convoy systems, vessels moving through the danger area will be harder to seize. In the long-term this may be the answer, leaving the pirates only the slim pickings of vessels that foolishly choose not to cooperate with the international forces sent there to protect them. Also truth be told, though financially strapped governments may be muttering about the cost of the anti-piracy patrols, their naval forces find the experience highly valuable. Not only do they have a real operation on which to work but they are also operating with other navies and learning from each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
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Western Mendacity with Iran's Nuclear Program
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 The relationship between the governments of Iran and the USA has been tense and nasty since the fall of the Shah, During the long Iran-Iraq War, the USA and her allies even supported the Iraqi regime when it invaded Iran, On July 3, 1988 the US, Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children,It was the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Indian Ocean and the highest death toll of any incident involving an Airbus A300 anywhere in the world, At the time of the attack, Vincennes, fitted with the then-new Aegis combat system, was traversing the Strait of Hormuz inside Iranian territorial waters, and the IR655 was within Iranian airspace, Worse still, after completing their tour, the Vincennes crew was awarded Combat Action Ribbons for having actively participated in ground or surface combat and its captain William C, Rogers III received the Legion of Merit.
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Rising Turkey Versus Receding Arabs
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 While most Arab states are basking in their impotence and bickering amongst themselves over a long list of issues, Turkey is slowly, but definitely, asserting itself as a leading power in the Middle East, besides Israel and Iran, Turkey, especially under the rule of Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been taking, and continues, to take strident steps in expanding its influence eastward, effectively grooming itself for the auspicious title of the leading state in the Sunni Muslim world,The Turks are filling a certain psychological-strategic vacuum in the Middle East, especially the Arab region.
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Toward a Secure Middle East
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 In my opinion a secure Middle East requires full appreciation of the past, a full understanding of the present and a vision for the future,It is a vision of a Middle East that links up with the world as a stakeholder in the establishment of global peace, security and prosperity - not as a battlefield or a playground in which conflicting international and regional interests confront each other and consequently produce an environment conducive to tension, violence and terrorism, Today there is a trend in the international politics of the Middle East to regard crisis management as a goal in itself rather than a means of making the region a stakeholder.
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MarocPost would like to shed the light and introduce a dear friend of the Moroccan community in America: Mr Thomas P Kinny,He has been helping many Moroccans in need of legal representation or advice for a longtime, his outreach to Moroccans from all walks of life makes him by excellence a true partner of the Moroccan Diaspora, Based in Manhattan, Mr Thomas P Kinny has extended himself and his practice to all Moroccans with help and guidance in diverse issues such as:
At least 17 Indian soldiers have been killed and another 17 injured following an avalanche that hit an army training centre at a ski resort town in Indian-administered Kashmir, army officials have said
