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Michael Jordan skipping Tahoe celeb golf in July
Tournament officials announced in a statement Monday a scheduling appearance will prevent the NBA hall of famer from playing in the 24th annual American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course July 19-21. No other details were ...
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New poll shows growing Arab trust in regional press
the Arab world " has improved in the last two years. But while regional media basks in goodwill, less than half of respondents (48 percent) consider their own country's media credible and only 43 percent say the media can report without ...
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Ethiopia and Egypt in the Eyes of EU Official
Cairo, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) The conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia for the construction of a dam in the Blue Nile heads the agenda of the visit of the Commissioner of Foreign Policy of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, who will visit Egypt starting Tuesday. The arrival was announced by European Union Ambassador James Moran, who said AShton will meet President Mohamed Morsi and Foreign ...
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Mursi pulls Egypt deeper into Syria turmoil with apparent nod to jihad
An Egyptian Salafi shouts a slogan against Syrian President Bashar Assad as one waves a Syrian revolutionary flag during a rally after the Friday prayers at Amr Ibn Al As mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr ...
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Canada to provide $98.4M in aid to help Jordan cope
Jordan to help the Arab country cope with the costly fallout from the worsening crisis next door in Syria, its foreign affairs minister said in a statement Monday. The pledge followed a visit by John Baird, who held talks on Syria's more than 2-year civil war with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, late Sunday in the capital, Amman."Compassion for Syrians fleeing death and ...
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Regime looks to retake control of rebel-held Aleppo
A member of the Free Syrian Army walks past a portable swimming pool in the Bab al-Nasr neighborhood of Aleppo June 17, 2013. (REUTERS/Muzaffar ...
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Gadhafi’s son to stand trial in August Libya prosecutor says
TRIPOLI: Seif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and other former top regime officials will stand trial in August for crimes committed during the 2011 uprising, an aide to the prosecutor said Monday. Former spy ...
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Anti-Mursi rally could signal round two of Egypt uprising
Senior opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei is greeted by anti-Mursi protesters made up of intellectuals and artists inside Egypt's Ministry of Culture during their sit-in protest against Egypt's new Minister of Culture Alaa Abdel Aziz in Cairo June 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Asmaa ...
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Saudi Arabia ‘supplying missiles’ to Syria rebels
In this Friday, June 14, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, Syrian rebels stand on top of a tank they took after storming the Iskan military base in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ...
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Islamist ex-militant to run troubled Luxor tourist region
File - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, Foreign tourists visit the Hatshepsut Temple, in the ancient southern city of Luxor, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nasser ...
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Oman awards contracts to boost sports infrastructure
The Omani government has signed contracts for new sports infrastructure projects in Musandam governorate, Oman Daily Observer has reported. The agreements include works on the Khasab sports complex in the governorate, which comprise a football stadium, a gallery which can accommodate up to 11,610 people and 600 dignitaries in addition to a lounge to receive dignitaries, locker rooms, conference ...
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Egypt Sudan to buy oil shipments from Iraq on credit
Iraq has agreed in principle to provide both Egypt and Sudan with crude oil, to be purchased on credit, Mena has reported. Iraq will start sending the shipments once the two countries obtain letters of credit from international banks and Iraq's cabinet issues its final approval of the ...
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Oman awards Saudi Arabias NPCC $98m power project contract
Oman has awarded Saudi National Contracting Co (NCC) a OR37.7m ($97.9m) contract to build the first major power transmission line in Musandam governorate, Oman Daily Observer has reported. The transmission line will be built in tandem with the governorate's first natural gas-based power plant, which is currently the subject of a competitive tender. Electricity from the power plant, which is ...
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Egypt investment minister aims for 7 percent growth in two years
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Investment Minister Yehya Hamed said on Monday he aimed to boost Egypt's anemic economic growth to as high as 7 percent in two years by improving the environment for private ...
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Putin US-Russia positions on Syria dont coincide
View Photo Associated Press/Evan Vucci - President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in ...
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UPDATE 1-Saudi Arabia says MERS coronavirus kills four more
Mon Jun 17, 2013 4:41pm EDT (Updates WHO's worldwide death toll, adds details) DUBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - Four more people have died and three more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the four deaths were among previously registered cases. The new infections were in Eastern Province, in the ...
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In civil war Syrias Kurds search for place but increasingly clash with Arab rebels
FILE - In this Sunday, March 3, 2013 file photo, A Kurdish female member of the Popular Protection Units stands guard at a check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. Taking advantage of the chaos of the civil war, Syria’s Kurdish minority has carved out a once unthinkable independence in their areas, creating their own police forces, even their own license plates, and ...
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Persian Gulf states unable to protect themselves
Despite massive spending on Western weapons, the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf are "unable to secure themselves from any external threat" -- meaning Iran - and are running up huge public and foreign debt, a gulf think tank ...
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Does Egypt Face a New Revolution
Their counter-campaign - "Tagarud" - calls for open minds. There is a risk of more of the violence that has punctuated the two-and-a-half years since Hosni Mubarak was toppled by a blast of rage from Tahrir Square. "June 30" crops up endlessly in conversation. The Cairo bourse has shriveled in anticipation and security forces say they are preparing to deal with trouble. ...
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Crude Oil Ends Lower Amid Middle East Concerns
U.S. crude oil snapped a three-day gain to ended lower Monday, after having trended higher for most of the day amid concerns over supply disruptions following geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, as violence escalated in Syria. The downtrend in oil prices seem to have stemmed from unconfirmed news reports on the Federal Reserve cutting back on its quantitative easing program.The G-8 meeting ...
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Egypts Morsi tightens grip ahead of protests
By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Correspondent CAIRO -- In a controversial move seemingly aimed at shoring up his grip on power, Egypt President Mohamed Morsi appointed 17 new governors, including seven members of his own Muslim Brotherhood party and a member of the radical Islamist Group. The appointments mean that the Brotherhood controls the governorships in 10 out of the country's 27 ...
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AECOM Technology Wins $148 Million Qatar Contract
has won a $148 million, three-year contract to provide construction supervision and design review services for the portion of the Doha Expressway program in Qatar known as Group 7.The new dual highway will link the cities of Al Khor and Mesaieed. The program covers the creation of a 105-mile expressway that will help move sea freight into and out of the New Port Project in Doha, Qatar, and ...
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Egypts Mohamed Morsi appoints hardline Islamist to govern Luxor
Mohamed Morsi , has appointed a member of the hardline Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya to the governorship of Luxor - a tourist city in which militants associated with the group killed 58 tourists in 1997.The symbolism of the appointment has ...
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Phil Jackson On Michael Jordan I Didnt Want Him To Be The Scoring Leader
a book from an American Buddhist nun : "No man is an island. No man goes his way alone. What I put into the lives of others will come back into its own." Jackson repeated this statement frequently to his players. "Those words, sometimes, are difficult for the boys to hear," he says to Oprah. "So then I would say, 'Do you understand what I'm saying? No man goes ...
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Egypts Morsis appointment of ex-militant group member as a governor of Luxor causes uproar
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a tourist visits Hatshepsut's Temple in Luxor, Egypt. Stunned tourist workers vow to block the newly appointed Islamist governor of Luxor province from taking office. The reason: He belongs to a former militant group that killed nearly 60 tourists visiting a Pharaonic temple there in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, ...
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Aqaba taking Jordan along for the ride
Aqaba is now officially the site of one of the largest infrastructure developments in the Middle East region, and certainly the largest development ever undertaken in Jordan’s history. Marsa Zayed is a mammoth project worth $10 billion and on its own is expected to more than double Jordan’s tourist revenues. Marsa Zayed is one in a long list of significant developments taking place in Aqaba, which is set to become the premier tourist destination of the country and a leading destination in the Gulf, but this project is notable for its sheer size.
Marsa Zayed envisions a marina development with room for 300 yachts and a cruise ship terminal all surrounded by a mixture of hotel, resort and luxury apartment complexes. The entire project is slated for completion in several years time, when Jordan first signed the development deal with Al Mabaar, a UAE-based real estate firm, in 2008, Jordan news media reported that it would be completed in 2013. Read more
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