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<title><![CDATA[Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:00:02 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hope and history are sisters: one looks forward and one looks back, and they make the world spacious enough to move through freely, writes <STRONG>Rebecca Solnit</STRONG>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Businesses in Dubai foresee rising demand, higher profits]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:52 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Overall business expectations are on upward trend with 91% of firms reporting either improvement or stability in business conditions]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK largest financial advice network chooses Abu Dhabi for major incentive]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:07:19 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Some 150 financial advisers from UK are in Abu Dhabi as part of major four day incentive by Openwork.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mauritania's ruling party: Abdel Aziz will not step down]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:48:20 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ruling party rejects demand from opposition for president to step down, saying it will not discuss issue during pre-vote negotiations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mid-air sightseeing tour turns into tragedy in Turkey]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:26:42 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two hot-air balloons collide in beauty spot in central Turkey, killing two Brazilian tourists, hurting 23 other people.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Israel ‘fabricates’ its innocence from murder of Mohammed al-Dura]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:16 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mohammed's father, Jamal Al-Dura, says report is ‘completely fabricated,’ requests formation of international commission of inquiry.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Maliki’s remedy for Iraq sectarian violence: Overhaul of security strategy]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:37 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Iraq PM turns blind eye to source of his country’s crisis as he opts for overhaul of security strategy, hoping to ease rising sectarian violence.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Qatar emir laments international failure over Syria]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:24:31 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sheikh Hamad slams international community’s inaction to end Syrian conflict, reach political solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia signs historic accord to protect Philippine maids]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:42 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Agreement guarantees Filipina maids benefits like day off each week while preventing their hiring costs from being deducted from their salary.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sad Lesson of Alan Hart ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:44:58 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sailing against a strong prevailing wind is not easy, certainly not like breezing along with the wind to your back. Author Alan Hart discovered that truth in criticizing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, but his acceptance of defeat should not stop others from advocating for truth and justice, says <STRONG>Lawrence Davidson</STRONG>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Egypt sends reinforcements to Sinai as speculation grows]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:21:18 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Deployment comes hours after police camp came under fire with heavy weapons in dawn attack that further heightened tensions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lost ‘Trifecta of Scandals’ ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:18:26 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[From CNN to the Washington Post, the mainstream news media is abuzz about “the trifecta of scandals” besetting the Obama administration, a narrative that fails to assess the actual significance of the three “scandals.” They don’t measure up to the many important scandals that the media neglects, says <STRONG>Beverly Bandler</STRONG>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing the Bigger IRS ‘Scandal’ ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:14:53 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Washington press corps is in hot pursuit of “Obama scandals,” stampeding officials into various rushes to judgment while missing the bigger scandals underlying the excitement du jour, such as the systematic abuse of federal tax-exempt status for secret political donations, as <STRONG>William Boardman</STRONG> notes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spokesman’s surrender to Mauritania deals another blow to Ansar Dine]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:08 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Senda Ould Boumama claims to have been target of assassination attempt, although he does not reveal origin.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Another ‘Bou Azizi’ in Saudi Arabia: Street vendor dies after self-immolation]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:31:23 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Street vendor dies in Saudi Arabia after setting himself on fire in protest at having his goods confiscated by police.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Massive penalty brings down top executives in Kuwait oil sector]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:10:07 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kuwait's vital oil sector undergoes major reshuffle, with new executives appointed for subsidiaries of Kuwait Petroleum Corp.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rising storm of violence hits Iraq hard in May]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:45:28 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two days of bombings, attacks on police, botched hostage rescue kill 50 people in Iraq, among them 24 police.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bahrain court slaps nine Shiites with jail terms over 'terrorist' cell]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:59 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Court sentences nine Shiites to jail terms ranging between 10 and 15 years after convicting them of forming ‘terrorist’ group.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Abu Iyadh to Tunisia rulers: Thank you tyrants, but we will never be defeated!]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:55:20 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tunisian police arrest some 200 members of Ansar al-Sharia as Prime Minister Ali Larayedh warns of firm action.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Benghazi Distraction ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:21 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Benghazi “scandal” has enabled congressional Republicans to keep their “base” worked up to a fever pitch, but the hyping of the controversy beyond all reason is doing real harm to US national security by distracting officials from actual foreign policy problems, according to ex-CIA analyst <STRONG>Paul R. Pillar</STRONG>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Algeria: Mideast’s next revolt if soccer is barometer]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:13:04 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[there is increasingly little doubt that soccer is signaling popular discontent could again spill into streets of Algiers, other major cities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Remembering Perot: Last Chance for Americans against Globalization ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:53:23 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Globalization has done for capitalism – the true capitalists, not the penny-ante savers who’ve been fooled into thinking that they too are capitalists – what would have been an improbable task in any single industrialized nation, argues <STRONG>Ben Tanosborn</STRONG>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iran’s Critical Election ـ ]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:33 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The election will have meaning for the talks with the P5+1 over the nuclear issue. And if anything, there are more and greater contrasts today between those seeking to run for president than in 2009, notes <STRONG>Robert Dreyfuss</STRONG>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US drone strikes again in Yemen]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:09:41 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two suspected 'Al-Qaeda militants' killed by drone strike in Khobza area of central province of Baida.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[15 killed in string of bomb attacks in Iraq]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:50:49 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Attempted hostage rescue, two assaults by gunmen on police stations kill 24 policemen in Anbar province overnight.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Battle for Qusayr: 23 Hezbollah fighters killed]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:34:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Syrian watchdog reports 23 members of Hezbollah's elite forces killed fighting alongside Syrian troops in Qusayr.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Egypt on verge of becoming alcohol-free nation?]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:09 +0300</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Militants set their sights on mosques in Iraq]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:49:35 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA['War on mosques' targeting both Sunnis and Shiites is raging in Iraq, leading some worshippers to stay away.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[One dead in police clashes with Islamists in Tunis]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:29:38 +0300</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tunisian PM links for first time Ansar al-Sharia to terrorism as Ennahda turns its back on hardline Salafists.]]></description>
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