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ARAB League News, May 11, 2012

Top two contenders participate in Egypt's first presidential debate
Washington Post
In homes and cafes, Egyptians sat transfixed by a debate that stretched past 2 am It featured Amr Moussa, the 75-year-old former chief of theArab League, and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, 60, considered a moderate Islamist. After decades of autocratic ...
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Mideast Egyptian presidential candidates clash in historic televised debate
Foreign Policy (blog)
Former Muslim Brotherhood leader, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, and former Arab League head and Mubarak foreign minister, Amr Moussa, headed off in front of millions of Egyptian viewers, attacking each other over political histories and arguing over the ...
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Kilo's options: War or Assad
Arab News
He also expressed these views in recent statements. His analyses were identical to the conclusions written by Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab Leaguespecial envoy to Syria, in his report to the Security Council. Annan said there had to be a political solution ...
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UN envoy mulling invite to Syria in wake of deadly Damascus bombings
CNN
By Joe Sterling, CNN (CNN) -- UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is weighing an invitation to meet with President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a senior UN source said Thursday, the same day that a deadly blast in Damascus drew widespread condemnation and ...
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Egypt election front-runners battle in historic debate
Focus News
... framing this month's vote as a choice between an Islamist fundamentalist or a holdover from Hosni Mubarak's toppled regime, AFPreports. Amr Mussa, a former foreign minister and Arab League chief, squared off with Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim ...
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Egyptians abroad vote in presidential elections
Boston.com
... ran well past midnight, pitted Amr Moussa, who served as Mubarak's foreign minister for 10 years until becoming head of the Arab League in 2001, against Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, a moderate Islamist who broke with the Muslim Brotherhood last year.
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Boston.com
Egypt riveted by first televised presidential debate
Toronto Star
... ousted last year after a wave of protests. The debate, which ran well past midnight, pitted Amr Moussa, who served as Mubarak's foreign minister for 10 years until becoming head of the Arab League in 2001, against Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, ...
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Toronto Star
As Syrian Peace Plan Crumbles, What's Next?
Minnesota Public Radio
In the latest blow, two massive explosions rocked the outskirts of Syria's capital, Damascus, on Thursday, killing at least 55 people and injuring hundreds more. The peace plan, sponsored by the UN and the Arab League, called for the Syrian regime and ...
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Egypt broadcasts first live debate between presidential hopefuls
Radio New Zealand
It featured the two expected front-runners in the presidential vote later this month - former Arab League head Amr Moussa and moderate Islamist Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the BBC reports. The first round of voting is on 23-24 May.
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UN Security Council condemns "terrorist attacks" in Syria
Chicago Tribune
The Security Council also called on all parties in Syria to "immediately and comprehensively" implement UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan, in particular to cease all forms of armed violence. The council "reaffirmed that terrorism ...
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The face off in Egypt's first ever such presidential debate, two weeks before ...
CNN International
"We want to ensure that every citizen in all of Egypt -- in the north, south, east and west -- that the state is moving in the right way to progress and to respond to people's requirements," said Egypt's former foreign minister and one-time Arab League ...
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Egypt holds first ever presidential debate
Zee News
Millions of Egyptians tuned into the debate between presidential frontrunners Amr Moussa, former minister of foreign affairs and ex-chief of the Arab League, and Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futoh, a Muslim Brotherhood defect. The two men hope to be the next ...
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Zee News
Egyptian presidential election TV debate – as it happened
The Guardian (blog)
The protagonists are front-running candidates Amr Moussa (former foreign minister and former head of the Arab League) and Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh (formerly of the Muslim Brotherhood) and two high-profile TV figures will be posing the questions: chat ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Saudi bailout won't avert crisis in Egypt over Islamic banking
CPI Financial
Separately, the Saudi Press Agency reported Ahmad bin Abdulaziz Qattan, Saudi ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Arab League, as saying that Saudi Arabia and Egypt have signed on a memorandum of ...
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Suicide bombing stopped in Aleppo, Syria TV says
CNN
State-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported the letters said that Damascus, Aleppo and other Syrian cities "witnessed several terrorist bombings over the last weeks" that left dozens of innocent people dead. The letters said the country is facing ...
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Twin suicide car bombs in Syrian capital kill dozens
USA TODAY
World powers seeking to halt Syria's unrest condemned the attack and urged all sides to adhere to a cease-fire brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. The Obama administration condemned the attack and expressed concern that al-Qaida may be ...
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Syria: Govt behind deadly Damascus blasts, claims dissident
Chicago Tribune
The observers are in the country as part a joint UN-Arab League peace plan and began deploying last month. Annan on 25 April called reportsof the ongoing violent crackdown on protests in Syria by its security forces "totally unacceptable and ...
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UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan condemns attacks in Damascus
NetIndian
The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of ArabStates on the Syrian Crisis, Mr Kofi Annan, today condemned "in the strongest possible terms" attacks that took place earlier Thursday in Damascus, claiming 55 lives.
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Syria, Egypt and Algeria - live updates
The Guardian
10.47am: Egypt: Despite spending 10 years as Egypt's foreign minister, plus another 10 as head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa's knowledge of the Middle East seems a bit deficient. Twitter user Sultan al Qassemi points out an extraordinary gaffe in last ...
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The Guardian
Damascus attacks put ceasefire to the test
The Voice of Russia
Renewed attacks in Syria are blamed on the opposition groups which do not accept a peace plan suggested by the UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, says expert Aleksei Podtserov of the Russian Institute of Middle Eastern Studies: "The opposition is ...
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The Voice of Russia
State Department Briefing by Victoria Nuland, May 10, 2012
eNews Park Forest
NULAND: We have had contact with Chinese authorities about these concerning reports. Beyond that, we are awaiting further information on some of these issues. QUESTION: Can you flesh out a little of that contact? Have you expressed your concern?
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Sergei Lavrov: UNSC will not sanction military intervention in Syria
The Voice of Russia
"In November last year the League of Arab States (LAS) established the Arab Observer Mission in Syria, which included several dozen people. They began their work in Syria in an attempt to promote the normalization of the situation in the country.
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The Voice of Russia
Chatter: JP Morgan takes a hit
GlobalPost (blog)
Last night's contest, watched by millions of TV viewers, was fought between the two front-running candidates, former foreign minister andArab League chief Amr Moussa and moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh. They sparred over issues ranging from ...
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UN Secretary-General, Security Council Strongly Condemn Bomb Attacks in Damascus
eNews Park Forest
According to media reports, there were two strong explosions in the Syrian capital – near what is reported to be a military intelligence building – on Thursday morning, killing or wounding dozens of people. The crisis in Syria, which began in March ...
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Summer gas price expectations fall
Shreveport Times
Since, Iran has re-engaged in talks about its contentious nuclear program and the Syrian government has allowed United Nations andArab League observers access to the country in hopes of leveling conditions of popular revolt more than a year old.
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Twin car bombs in Syrian capital kill dozens
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
World powers seeking to halt Syria's unrest condemned the attack and urged all sides to adhere to a cease-fire brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. "In order to prevent another escalation of violence, we continue to call on the Syrian ...
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Egypt Rivals Trade Barbs in Historic Debate
THISDAY Live
Egyptian presidential hopefuls Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh traded barbs about their past in a debate that captured the historic moment facing a nation preparing for its first real election for head of state, reports Reuters.
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Egypt's Presidential vote: US picks its favorite
The Muslim News
The report recommends that the US support the candidacy either of Amr Moussa, the former foreign minister and Arab League secretary-general, or ex-premier Ahmad Shafiq. The diplomatic sources, however, said that the Americans are aware that Shafiq ...
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Live! 5.4 quake in Kolkata, North-east, no damages as yet
Rediff
The army has not bought a single big gun since the last of the Bofors howitzer was delivered in 1987. 17:57 The deal has taken two years to go through as this Telegraph, Calcutta, report suggests. Read 17:50 The guns are ultra-light, can be transported ...
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EU set for new sanctions on Syria as protesters killed across the country
Al-Arabiya
World powers condemned Thursday's attacks that targeted a military intelligence building and urged both sides to the conflict to adhere to the ceasefire brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. The 15 UN Security Council members urged the regime ...
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Al-Arabiya
Explosion near UN Convoy in Syria
The Standard
Eyewitnesses said at least three Syrian soldiers were wounded. Onereport said the truck windows were shattered. The observers are in Syria as part of the joint UN-Arab League peace plan and began deploying last month. There are now about 30 monitors ...
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Damascus seethes and Saudi Arabia forgives Egypt
The Times of Israel
By Elhanan Miller May 11, 2012, 10:12 am eporting on the explosions in Damascus Thursday morning dominate the news in Arab media Friday. “Damascus wakes to a destructive explosion, and the regime blames Turkey and Libya for the explosion,” reads the ...
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The Times of Israel
50 killed in Damascus blasts
Pakistan Observer
The observers are in the country as part of the joint UN-Arab Leaguepeace plan and began deploying last month. There are now about 70 monitors in Syria as a whole, but their presence has had no effect in quelling the violence. Violence was reported in ...
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Twin car bombs in Syrian capital kill dozens
Seattle Post Intelligencer
World powers seeking to halt Syria's unrest condemned the attack and urged all sides to adhere to a cease-fire brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. "In order to prevent another escalation of violence, we continue to call on the Syrian ...
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New Site Aims for Mideast View, in English
Tablet Magazine
The overall result is reporting on the region in English that pointedly doesn't travel through a Western prism. The founder and chairman is Jamal Daniel, a Syrian-born businessman with ties to the Bush family as well as severalArab governments.
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Tablet Magazine
Russian FM condemns Syria blasts, accuses certain powers for violence
Press TV
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned therecent twin bombings in Syria, accusing certain foreign powers of encouraging the ongoing violence, Press TVreports. “Unfortunately governments who support the opposition groups are not allowing ...
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Press TV
No justice for the victims of Gaza
Aljazeera.com
... manner by several independent reports, including that of the UN Fact-Finding Mission led by Justice Richard Goldstone. These facts are widely known; they have been discussed in virtually every international assembly, within the Arab League, ...
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Aljazeera.com
Syria suicide bombers kill 55, ceasefire in tatters
defenceWeb
Opposition leaders said Annan's peace plan was dead, while Western powers insisted it remained the best way forward, Reuters reports. Annan condemned the "abhorrent" bombings and urged all parties to halt violence and protect civilians.
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defenceWeb
Who Set Off 2 Lethal Car Bombs in Damascus?
Care2.com (blog)
About 800 people have died since a peace proposal negotiated by Kofi Annan, special envoy to the United Nations and the Arab League, was supposed to take place on April 12. Major General Robert Mood, the Norwegian officer who is in charge of the UN ...
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Finger-pointing follows Damascus bombings
KPAX-TV
There has been a stepped-up peace effort in recent weeks, led by joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. But the violence has continued since the April 12 deadline for a cease-fire brokered by Annan that, theoretically, key parties had agreed to.
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Low turnout in Algerian elections, marred by two explosions
Trend.az
Algeria's parliamentary elections sparked little enthusiasm on Thursday, with media reporting only a trickle of voters at many polling stations, dpa reported. The Interior Ministryreported a turnout of 35 per cent right before most voting stations ...
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Trend.az
Arab League backs Libya quest to try Gadhafi's son | Fox News
The Arab League is backing Libya's intention to try a son of deposed ruler Moammar ... main content: Fox News/Fox Business (Article Page: Fox News/SBC/ Latino/Fox Business) ... The Journal Editorial Report ...The court dismissed Libya's latest appeal, but the ICC cannot force Libya to comply with its order to turn him over.
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Arab League Asks UN To Hold Session On Palestinian Prisoners ...
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Scoop Gaza provides Occupation news and views. ... The Arab Leaguealso called on the UN in its report to invite the international human ...Latest Gaza news ...
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Arab League holds meeting on Palestinian prisoners in ... - Press TV
Arab League holds urgent meeting on the crisis of Palestinian hunger-strikers in Israeli ... Audio Stream. U Report. Watch Live. text only version · Home. News ...
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