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 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that his country would eventually embark on direct peace talks with Israel, but they must be based on U.N. Security Council resolutions. The comments by Bashar al-Assad reflect a softer stance of the Syrian leader, who only recently rebuked Israel by claiming the Jewish state is not genuine in its professed desire for peace with its Arab neighbors. "Peace cannot be achieved through indirect negotiations alone. But if indir ... Read more » |
 BAGHDAD - The 24 Iraqi interior and defence ministry officers who were arrested this week on suspicion of aiding terrorism have been released without charge, the interior ministry said on Saturday. "They have all been released and the allegations were dropped," Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf said, without saying when the release took place. "They are patriotic officers. We will take action against the people who made the allegations against them," he said. On Thur ... Read more » |
 GAZA CITY: The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which controls Gaza said yesterday that a troubled Cairo-brokered truce with Israel will not be renewed when it runs out later this week. But a spokesman for outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted his government remained keen to see the six-month-old truce extended beyond Thursday provided Hamas halted rocket and mortar fire against southern Israel. “The truce was limited to six months and ends on December ... Read more » |
 DUBAI: The Dubai International Film Festival kicked off its fifth addition on Thursday with stars from Hollywood, Bollywood and the world of Arab cinema. The eight-day-long festival, which will feature 182 films from 66 countries, was launched with the screening of W. This latest movie by director Oliver Stone, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, chronicles the rise to power of outgoing US President George W Bush. Stone slammed Bush saying he is “not a nice man”, who h ... Read more » |
 MINA, Saudi Arabia: More than 2mn Muslims performing the Haj pilgrimage entered the final stage of the rituals yesterday, visiting the Grand Mosque in Makkah and stoning walls representing the devil one more time. For a third day pilgrims threw stones at the Jamarat Bridge in the valley of Mina outside the holy city of Makkah, which has been the scene of numerous stampedes in past years, including one which killed 362 in 2006. The Haj also has been marred in previous y ... Read more » |
 BASRA, Iraq: For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussain, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes into force in January. Provincial polls slated for January 31 will allow voters to pick people, not just parties, potentially thrusting individual candidates into the spotlight. A dramatic fall in violence in Iraq over the past year has made it safer for people to publicly declare their can ... Read more » |
 CAIRO: At least 15 Coptic students were killed yesterday when their bus overturned on a road in Egypt as they were returning from a church excursion, a security official said. Another 24 students were injured in the accident which occurred about 30km south of Cairo when the group was on its way from Minya to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. “This is an initial toll — many of the victims were taken to hospital in a serious condition,” the security official said. Egy ... Read more » |
 CAIRO - Egyptian police are trying to track down hundreds of street lamps worth almost a million dollars after they were stolen from a road in the north of the country, local media reported on Tuesday. The 400 lamp posts, worth five million Egyptian pounds (905,000 dollars), were stolen from a motorway outside the Mediterranean city of Alexandria where they were waiting to be installed, the Egyptian Mail daily said. A security official described the t ... Read more » |
 Sudan's war-torn Darfur is becoming ever more dangerous, warned the UN's top humanitarian official on Sunday, calling for rapid progress towards a political settlement after a government ceasefire. "The longer this conflict goes on, the more dangerous it becomes in terms of the ability to return to normality as it was before," John Holmes, UN emergency relief coordinator, told a news conference after a six-day visit to Sudan. The Darfur conflict began i... Read more »
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 KUWAIT CITY- King Abdullah of OPEC powerhouse Saudi Arabia said in an interview published on Saturday that oil prices of 75 dollars a barrel would be "fair". His comments appeared in a Kuwaiti newspaper on the day OPEC was meeting in Cairo to review the turmoil in the world oil market and decide whether another crude output cut is needed to stop prices tumbling lower. "We think that a fair price of oil is 75 dollars a barrel," the Saudi monarch told As-... Read more »
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