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Oman proposes Gulf ban on women wearing full-face niqab veils from driving
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving. Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council police traffic department heads. It singled out the niqab, a mask that covers a woman's face, leaving only a slit for her eyes. The Oman delegate said that wearing a niqab ...
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Saudi Arabia executes five Yemenis and displays corpses
DUBAI // Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis today for robbery and murder, then put their bodies on public display as a further punishment, state news agency SPA said. A sixth man, a Saudi national, was separately executed for murder, the agency said. It was the second time in less than three months that Saudi Arabia executed several convicted criminals at the same time. In February, the United ...
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Muscat the focus of Omans aggressive plan for a tourism push
Muscat is an enticing one for any visitor. Men and women in traditional dress chat and pose gracefully around the souk, one of the oldest marketplaces in the Arab world, often seen with scarcely a guidebook -wielding tourist to get in the way of a camera shot. But all that could be about to change is an aggressive plan ...
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Clashes between Egypt troops and gunmen in Sinai
An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...
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Kerrys Visit to Oman Seeks to Guarantee Military Contract
Muscat, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The conclusion of a $2.1 billion USD agreement is the focus of the visit of U.S. secretary John Kerry to this capital of the Sultanate of Oman today. The agreement includes the sale of an anti-aircraft defense system produced by the Raytheon firm, which is based in the state of Massachusetts, and which Kerry supported from his position as senator before becoming ...
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Saudi Arabia blocks access to Jpost.com
Commentator article Ahmed Abdel-Raheem is an Egyptian artist and a PhD student who works as a lecturer at Al-Lith College for Girls, Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, according to his byline on the website of ...
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Jordan refuses entry to thousands of Syrian refugees
AMMAN - Jordan has turned away thousands of Syrian refugees in the past week in the first such clampdown since the crisis in Syria began more than two years ago, diplomats, activists and aid workers said on Tuesday.Jordan, due to host an international conference on Syria on Wednesday, has already taken in 473,587 Syrians out of a total of 1.5 million who have fled the conflict in an exodus that ...
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Oman Project Is A Step Toward The Ikea Of Solar
GlassPoint installation in Oman, with oil rigs in background (Credit: GlassPoint) In the desert of southern Oman, near the border with Yemen, 4 acres of glass houses catch the sun. They sit in the Amal West oilfield, operated by Petroleum Development Oman. But these glasshouses aren't growing tomatoes, or any other crop, rather they are making steam. When it comes to developing its oil ...
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Kerry visits Oman for arms deal talks on Syria Mideast
CORK/DUBLIN - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...
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Qatar should consider more flexible exchange rate
Qatar and other Gulf states should consider moving to a more flexible exchange rate from long-entrenched pegs to the US dollar, to better manage inflation risk in the next decade, a senior Qatar central bank official said on ...
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More troops arrive in Egypts Sinai over hostages
An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...
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UN Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan unclear why
GENEVA -- U.N. officials say there has been a sudden fall in the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan, but it's unclear why.Panos Moumtzis , the top U.N. refugee official for Syria, says the usual exodus of up to about 3,000 refugees daily has "dropped to almost zero" over the past four days.Moumtzis told reporters Tuesday in Geneva that his agency is asking if ...
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At least 4 killed in Israel bank robbery
Israeli security officers cordon off the scene of a bank robbery in Beersheva, southern Israel, on May 20, 2013. At least four people were killed in an armed bank robbery that took place on Monday in south Israeli city of Beersheva, Israel channel 2 citing the Magen David Adom emergency services as reporting. During the standoff with police, one of the robbers committed suicide. (Xinhua/Yin ...
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Irans Guardian Council rejects Mashaei Rafsanjani
In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei during a press conference after registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim ...
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Tunisia Salafist group calls for Friday demo
Saif Eddine Errais, center, spokesman of radical Islam Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia speaks during a press conference, Thursday, May 16, 2013 at the "Errahma" mosque in Cite Khadra, near Tunis. (AP Photo/Amine ...
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Syria submits five names for possible peace talks sources
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi talks to media in Damascus April 29, 2013, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. ...
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Bomb attacks kill at least 95 across Iraq
Iraqi security force members gather at the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/ Nabil ...
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Saudi Arabia detains 10 more in Iran spying case
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 10 more people in a spying case it announced in March that it said was linked to Iran, state television reported on ...
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Coronavirus claims another life in Saudi Arabia Tunisia announces 3 cases
Saudi Arabia , but one of the patients in the Eastern Region died yesterday, bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths in the Kingdom to 16. And Tunisia's Health Ministry announced today three cases of the deadly virus, including one ...
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AP Source Michael Jordan changing team name to Hornets
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is changing his team's name to the Hornets, said a person familiar with the situation.The person said Jordan will detail the timetable for the change to be completed at a press conference the Bobcats have scheduled for Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the name change has not ...
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Egypt students protest keosene smell in beans
Dozens of students at Al-Azhar University in Egypt said that they smelled kerosene in beans served for dinner in the school's dormitories The students protested Monday after dinner, Ahram Online reported. An official from the university said initial tests didn't indicate any contamination and that the smell may have come from the gas stove on which the beans were cooked. The ...
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Films with Arab themes hold sway at Cannes
Now that the first few days of catwalk bling and celebrity razzle-dazzle have died down, the Cannes film festival has returned to what it does best: showcasing strong, socially engaged cinema with a global ...
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Fatah Scolds Arab Teens for Soccer Game with Jews
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, threatened Arab teenagers for participating in a soccer game with Jewish Israelis. "Every now and then, some organizations who call themselves Palestinian come up with activities of normalization with the occupation," the Palestinian Authority's ...
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UPDATE 1-Algerian prime minister says President Bouteflika convalescing
Tue May 21, 2013 8:34am EDT (Adds French foreign ministry statement in paragraph 6) By Myra MacDonald ALGIERS May 21 (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ordered to take complete rest by his doctors. Since he was rushed to hospital in Paris on April 27 with ...
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Egypt tourist arrivals rise not back to pre-revolt levels
Egypt rose in the first four months of 2012, the cabinet said on Tuesday, but analysts say the sector is still suffering from the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising. The revolt that ...
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Bahrain’s mortgage market weathers recession while other industries struggle
Bahrain’s sound fiscal health, as well as prudent investment decisions by industry leaders has created a situation in which the country is in a fairly strong position compared to other GCC states, especially with regards to the mortgage market, but it’s not all good news.
Bahrain’s mortgage market has achieved significant growth despite a challenging market and is now worth $1.4 billion dollars, making Bahrain one of the strongest countries in terms of realty in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). There are a number of reasons for this. Read more
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