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 Madrid shows the way forward
 The fall of Al Adel Wa Al Ihssane is eminent
 On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children
Madrid shows the way forward
The fall of Al Adel Wa Al Ihssane is eminent
On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children
Madrid shows the way forward
The fall of Al Adel Wa Al Ihssane is eminent
On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children
On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children
On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children
On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children
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Palestine: Revealing a massacre
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 DNA testing has made it possible to trace one’s roots back many generations and there are even free websites that can help users trace their family history based on a few simple clues,Recent findings in my own personal history have been interesting indeed The present task of tracing my family roots was inspired by a book project with Pluto Press, narrating the story of my father, who died recently under tragic circumstances in the same refugee camp to which he was expelled, along with his family 60 years ago, Just weeks into my research, I found myself stumbling into the details of a massacre,And what started as a mere phase of my father’s torn childhood in Palestine has become the core of my book’s narrative
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Open skies: We are out of the race
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 Work is under way to make Dubai’s airport the world’s most busiest in terms of the number of passengers who use it, By the end of 2007, more than 34,3 million passengers traveled through the airport — this in spite of the fact that officials at the airport expected only 25 million passengers, The airport is listed as the fastest growing in the world, With the new expansion, its capacity is expected to reach 90 million, instead of 25 million,By 2010, Doha plans to finish the first stage of a new airport, which will have a capacity of 24 million passengers a year, According to Qatar Airways’ executive president, the number will be increased to 50 million by 2015,In the Kingdom, King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah recorded 15 million passengers in 2007, King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh recorded 11 million passengers and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam recorded 3,5 million passengers.
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Analysis: Blame the dollar
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 The US economic power horse is running out of ideas and cash as it jostles with a massive national debt, housing and financial crises, rising inflation, and a depreciating currency,This has all contributed to a growing tendency to live off credit amassed through petrodollars and foreign loans, leaving repayment for future generations,Today, in much of America, communities and suburbs are dealing with a drastic increase in foreclosures and short sales,This has not been helped by the fact that gas is selling at over $1 a litre ($4 a gallon),Standard monetary tools such as lowering or increasing interest rates can no longer provide quick fixes to the situation for both economic and political reasons.
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King launches, inquires about $ 3mln social projects north-east
Izemmouren (north-east), King Mohammed VI of Morocco, on Tuesday, launched and inquired about several social projects, worth about $ 3.02 mln in the north-eastern rural commune of Izemmouren (near Al Hoceima),These projects, part of Morocco's anti-poverty program the National Initiative for Human development (INDH), touch on several fields such as health, drinking water and rural electrification,The Monarch inquired about the construction and equipment of two social centers in the villages of Tafensa and Tamoujoute, at a global cost of $ 251,381. The two facilities, meant to improve the living conditions of the region’s women and guarantee their emancipation, will provide, among other things, training in income-generating activities, literacy classes as well as counseling for women.
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Govt. unveils 2008-2012 strategy to face global economic situation
Casablanca,Economy and Finance minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, unveiled, here Tuesday, the main aspects of the 2008-2012 strategy for socio-economic development to cope with the current global economic situation ,Speaking at a conference on "the current economic situation and the 2008-2012 prospects," Mezouar said despite a gloomy global economy that is characterized by soaring prices of raw materials and energy, notably oil, Morocco continues to achieve major steps forward at all levels,The North African country needs an innovator private sector to reduce the unemployment rate and poverty rate that currently stands at 21% of the total population, he said.
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Cape Verde: Morocco's autonomy initiative, basis of negotiations towards final settlement of Sahara
The Republic of Cape Verde deems that the Moroccan Initiative to grant large autonomy to the Sahara region constitutes the basis of negotiations towards a final settlement of this dispute that has lasted for too long, reiterating conviction in the virtue of dialog and consultation as means of conflict resolution,In a joint press release at the end of the two-day 1st session of the Moroccan-Cape Verdean cooperation Commission, the Cape Verdean party has deplored the stagnation of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) and considered that this inertia penalizes the aspirations of the Maghreb peoples,The two parties reiterated their countries' firm commitment to the principles of law and the international legality, especially those relating to the preservation of the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states.
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US presses N Korea on nuclear deal
The US has attempted to press North Korea into giving a preliminary commitment to complete a nuclear disarmament deal in its highest-level contact with Pyongyang in four years,Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, met her North Korean counterpart, Pak Ui-chun, on the sidelines of an Asian security forum in Singapore on Wednesday,"It was a good meeting, no surprises, The atmosphere was very good,It was not a stand-off with everybody stating their positions,It was interactive," Rice told reporters after the six-party talks,"Everyone essentially confirmed [previous agreements] and the need to move rapidly to finish phase two obligations," she said.
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Iran 'steadfast' on nuclear work
Iran's president has said that his country will not bend on its uranium enrichment programme, despite proposals by world powers aimed at bringing an end to Tehran's sensitive nuclear programme ,"The Iranian people are steadfast and will not step back an inch against the oppressive powers," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday at a rally in the southwestern province of Kohgelouyeh-Boyerahmad,His comments come after world powers said Iran has a fortnight to respond to an offer which seeks to end the five-year crisis over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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Obama tours Israel and West Bank
Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has met Palestinian leaders at the government's headquarters in Ramallah, in the final part of his Middle East tour,Obama travelled from Jerusalem to the West Bank city on Wednesday for talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Salam Fayyad, the prime minister,Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian peace negotiator, said Abbas planned to tell Obama that, if elected president, he must not waste time and must immediately turn his attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,Obama said on Tuesday in Jordan after a meeting with King Abdullah that he would work to bring Israel and the Palestinians together "starting from the minute I'm sworn into office".
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Sudan president visits Darfur
Sudan's president has dismissed accusation that he is responsible for atrocities in Darfur, as he began a two-day tour of the troubled western region,Omar al-Bashir, who faces a possible international arrest warrant for allegedly masterminding genocide in Darfur, will visit the three state capitals in the region - El Fasher in the north, Nyala in the south and El Geneina in the west,"Yes, we all know that there have been problems in Darfur and we know that there have been injustices, But we, from day one, sought to bring peace for all the people of Darfur," al-Bashir said.
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Karadzic 'to fight' extradition bid
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will fight attempts to extradite him to The Hague for trial, his lawyer has said,Sveta Vujacic said an appeal will be lodged on Friday, after a Serbian judge ruled that Karadzic had three days to challenge his extradition order,Karadzic, who has been accused of masterminding the 1995 massacre of more than 7,500 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, was captured in a raid by Serb forces late on Monday,He had apparently been living in disguise in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, for several years.
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It serves no one's purpose
It is impossible to understand what the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) of the United Nations imagined would be achieved by indicting Sudanese President Omar Bashir on charges of genocide, As the Arab League’s envoy to Sudan, Salah Halima, pointed out forcefully yesterday, this move will have an entirely negative impact on the already chaotic situation in Darfur,And the ramifications of the ICC’s decision will be more than political, UN peacekeepers are currently struggling alongside African Union troops in the Unamid force to stop Darfur’s murder and bloodshed, For them to have any chance of success, they need the support of the Sudanese armed forces and officials, Yet here is one part of the UN effectively making a decision that ought — on the face of it if the ICC decides to actually issue an arrest warrant for Bashir — to empower UN forces to seize a ruling head of state and take him to The Hague to answer charges against him, in the same way that UN and NATO troops have apprehended those charged with crimes from conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia.
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Building bridges between faiths
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 THE interfaith dialogue, which starts tomorrow in Madrid, is of the greatest importance, We say that not because it is very much the idea of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah or because he will address it, The fact is that dialogue between faiths has to occur if the world is to be a safer place, Dialogue is the foundation for respect between peoples,If people do not respect each other, how can they live with each other?,At the very heart of respect for each other has to be respect for each other’s faiths, In the past that mattered less, Cultures and faiths lived side by side, but it was just that — side by side, They were geographically separated; they did not come into daily contact with each other, The segregated world no longer exists,We now live in a global village.
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The big miscalculation on Iran
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 According to esteemed American journalist Seymour Hersh, the Bush administration has recently boosted its secret war against Iran, In the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, Hersh writes that last year Congress approved a presidential request for $400 million to finance covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the regime and to gather information on its nuclear activities, Hersh adds that cross-border operations against Iran have been going on since last year, but have escalated in a significant way of late giving signals that a pre-emptive strike could be in the works soon,The Hersh article coincides with recent revelations, by US sources, that Israel has conducted a major aerial exercise over the Mediterranean in what is believed to have been a dress rehearsal for a possible military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, And it was also reported that Adm, Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Israel for the second time in six months last June and met with his Israeli counterpart presumably to discuss a possible attack against what is perceived as a growing Iranian threat.
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Big turnaround for US and Iran
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 In two weeks, the period it has been granted, Iran might make known its intentions on its nuclear plans, and hence the future of its tenuous links with the US, The talks in Geneva did not result in Iran’s accepting the so-called “freeze for freeze” deal — a halt in its uranium enrichment in return for no strengthening of UN sanctions, There is no guarantee that at the end of the deadline, Iran will decide, as expressed by the US, between confrontation and cooperation, But after all the threats and counterthreats in recent weeks, the very fact that Iran and the US got together at one table for the first time concerning the nuclear issue represents a huge turnaround for both sides and provides distinct signs that a collision course is being averted.
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