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France24 (Free subscription) | 52 minutes ago
A US soldier who abused fellow troops in Iraq and then lied about it was on Saturday sentenced to six months in jail, fined almost 6,000 dollars and demoted, the American military said. Sergeant Jarrett Taylor was one of four US soldiers, all members of B Troop, 2nd Squadron, 13th Cavalry Regiment, based out of Fort Bliss, Texas, who were charged with a range of offences on August 19. Taylor, 23,...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "Printed Media: Is it the Time to Eulogize it?"
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Volkswagen said on Friday it would invest about 25.8 billion euros (39.0 billion dollars) in factories, materials and vehicle types by the end of 2012. Volkswagen, the biggest auto manufacturer in Europe, made the announcement during a meeting of its supervisory board. Most of the funds, 19.9 billion euros, will be allotted to production and equipment sites. The company said it wanted to "modernise...
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interactive graphic on the Airbus A380, the world's largest civilian airliner, as an Air France super-jumbo makes its first Transtlantic flight with production and delivery delays still plaguing Airbus.
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interactive graphic on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults and is set to restart.
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Digby Ioane has been ruled out of Australia's Test with Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday as a result of a shoulder injury. The Queensland centre is replaced in the starting line-up by Western Force's Ryan Cross with Lachlan Turner coming in on the bench. The injury is to Ioane's right shoulder, rather than the left which required reconstruction earlier this year and sidelined him for six months....
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rain caused the abandonment of the first one-day international between South Africa and England at the Wanderers Stadium on Friday. After more than 20mm of rain on Thursday, steady rain on Friday led to the match being called off two-and-a-half hours after the scheduled start when it became obvious that it would be impossible even to play a shortened game. A minimum of 20 overs a side is necessary...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do you know that not a day passes without Al-Arabiyyah TV (the private station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) mentioning something, anything, about the Israeli occupation soldier who was captured in Gaza while on a killing spree?
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Americans may not be known for being good at geography or history, but they do have very different opinions of different countries, including countries in or near to the Middle East. A large majority (74%) sees Israel as a close ally or friend, and a small majority (52%) feels this way about Egypt. More than two in five adults see Turkey (50%), Kuwait (49%), Jordan (45%), and Saudi Arabia (43%)...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
Abu Mazen says that he rules with "absolutely transparency ". (thanks Haroon)
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned on Friday. "We are sounding the alarm that the dropout rate is too high among school-aged children from the intermediary to the high school level," said Ray Virgilio Torres, head of the UN Children's Fund...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
" In 1975, the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring, “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Other organizations followed suit: The Conference of the International Women’s Year declared that international peace required the end of colonialism, occupation, apartheid and Zionism. The Organization of African Unity stated that South Africa, Rhodesia...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
""Those who have to resist are the people, and there are different types of resistance, like in (West Bank villages of) Bilin and Naalin, where people are injured every day," he said." (thanks David)
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"One of the many defence lawyers, Mokhtar Trifi, noted the absence in court of witnesses for what he called a "stitched-up" case and demanded an expert examination of Ben Brik's alleged confession. Authorised to sit on health grounds, Ben Brik objected "that's not mine, that's a different signature," while the judge shouted for order in a noisy courtroom." (thanks Mud)...
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