“If we aim high enough, we can reach the once-inconceivable levels of sophistication and advancement associated with the fourteen-hundreds in Europe.” Cairo, May 10 – Representatives of the 22 Arab member states of the Arab League plan to take up ...
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“Israel isn’t providing enough channels of satellite TV? Well, yeah, come on. That’s like basic stuff.” Damascus, May 8 – Remaining residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital voiced satisfaction that a ...
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Tantrums, violence, threats, and incoherent or unreasonable demands. Gainesville, Florida, May 3 – University of Florida researchers have published a study in child psychology that shows professional diagnosticians lack the skills to tell the difference between the behavior of toddlers ...
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“The army in no way intended to hit non-civilian targets; it is not our way.” Damascus, April 26 – Syrian military officials acknowledged today that a barrage of rockets fired at the rebel stronghold of Idlib yesterday may have missed ...
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“For centuries, it was thought to be a social phenomenon, but in fact it’s purely biological.” Amman, April 24 – New research findings may explain how Arab migrants from around the Mediterranean basin and Arabian Peninsula and their descendants acquire ...
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Abbas formed the committee in 2015 to study the issue and make recommendations. Ramallah, April 20 – A committee appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for purposes of recommending a suitable date for the next parliamentary and presidential elections for ...
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“In addition to these incidents, we’ve had the phenomenon of international Palestinian terrorism since the 1960’s, such that by now, everyone should be aware of the Palestinian readiness for a functioning state.” Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon, April 9 – Fatah and ...
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Suppressing its history of being Trans – a history that goes back to ancient times – has wrought emotional instability and a confused sense of self in Jordan. Amman, April 2 – A counselor working with the Hashemite kingdom that ...
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Diplomats had hoped the region could transition from iron-fisted rule by hereditary dictatorships to iron-fisted rule by democratically-elected governments. Washington, March 29 – With the release of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from prison today, staffers as the US Department ...
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Palestinian Authority encourages people to move away; calls West Bank and Gaza “Jewish” Ramallah, March 24 – The Palestinian Authority announced today that it is relinquishing all territorial claims against Israel, and that it encourages all Palestinians in the West ...
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