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LIBYA: Gaddafi son's arrest leads to oil embargo on Swiss

beiruter.com 20 hrs ago 158 related

Libya does not react lightly to authorities in another country getting in the way of its leader’s son. The brief detention by the Swiss police of the youngest son of Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal, last week for allegedly beating...

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ncr-iran.org

Al-Alam says Cairo ban only speculation

upi.com 22 hrs ago 34 related

CAIRO, July 25 (UPI) -- Al-Alam, Iran's international news TV channel, says it has received no official word that it faces a ban in Egypt. Security forces in Cairo ransacked the Al-Alam office earlier this week and confiscated...

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Egypt Facebook activists jailed for 'threatening national security'

alarabiya.net 18 hrs ago 6 related

Police arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria and jailed 14 of them for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official said on Thursday. Around 30 young Egyptians who belong to...

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thememriblog.org

Cartoon In Jordanian Paper: Arabs Pull the American Cart Of Democracy, Human Rights

thememriblog.org 19 hrs ago 4 related

Cartoonist: 'Imad Hajjaj Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, July 24, 2008 Your donation helps keep our online services free. MEMRI is a 501(c)(3) organization, and your donation is tax deductible. If you would like to donate by...

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Europeans Chasing Illusions And The Calm Before The Storm

sigcarlfred.blogspot.com 20 hrs ago 2 related

Just because there is a wall that stands in the way of the terrorists doesn't mean that their frustrations have disappeared! ...And, as far as the lower number of attacks is concerned, it's an illusion. It's the calm before the...

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Shalit saga continues

ahram.org.eg 20 hrs ago 5 related

With Hizbullah scoring a victory in its prisoner exchange deal with Israel, pressure is building on Hamas to do even better, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY: A combo of three handout still video...

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South Africa: Mbesuma Trains With Sundowns

allafrica.com 17 hrs ago 4 related

Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Mamelodi Sundowns have emerged as strong contenders to sign former Kaizer Chiefs striker Collins Mbesuma after the Zambian striker was spotted at Chloorkop this morning. Mbesuma was with Sundowns'...

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Occidental's second-quarter profit jumps 63%

gulfnews.com 17 hrs ago 1 related

New York: Occidental Petroleum, the fourth-largest US oil company by market value, said second-quarter profit rose 63 per cent as crude prices climbed above $140 a barrel for the first time and production increased. Net income...

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Namibia: Much Room for Better Trade

allafrica.com 23 hrs ago 1 related

So said the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Mohamed Hadi Mostafa El Tonsi on Wednesday evening at the National Theatre of Namibia in celebration of his country's 56th anniversary of the 23rd July 1952 revolution....

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Beheading Sparks Fears of Return to Violence in Algeria

newsblaze.com 21 hrs ago 1 related

By The Media Line Staff The beheading of an elderly farmer in a small village in rural Algeria has left the locals in shock, with some fearing a return to the dark days of the 1990s, Magharebia News reported. During the '90s...

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