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AL JAZEERA News, Jul 18, 2012

Al Jazeera: Syrian envoy to Iraq confirms his defection
USA TODAY
Syria's ambassador to Iraq confirms to Al Jazeera that he has defected. ... A Syrian opposition group reported earlier today that the country's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, had defected. Al Jazeera later reported that Fares has confirmed his defection.
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USA TODAY
Report: Syrian envoy to Iraq says he defected
Tucson Citizen
A Syrian opposition group reported earlier today that the country's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, had defected. Al Jazeera later reported that Fares has confirmed his defection. Update at 5:58 p.m. ET: Al Jazeera is reporting that Nawaf Fares has ...
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Yasser Arafat was poisoned, claims Jordanian doctor
India Today
India Today / World / Rest of the World / Story. IANS Ramallah, July 13, ... Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor, ordered a probe after al-Jazeera TV concluded in an investigative report that Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium. To confirm the ...
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The murder of Yasser Arafat
Asia Times Online
For years, the world scoffed at them, claiming that Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular love to spin wild "conspiracy theories". Today, eight years later, Arafat's case re-emerges strongly as. fresh evidence indicates that he may indeed ...
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Annan 'appalled' by reports of Syria killings
Aljazeera.com
The Syrian National Council (SNC), the main opposition bloc, said: "To stop this bloody madness which threatens the entity of Syria, as well as peace and the security in the region and in the world, requires an urgent and sharp resolution of the ...
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Arafat medical file released in death probe portrays him as robust before ...
Washington Post
Abbas has given his permission for the exhumation of the remains of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, a top aide said Monday, July 9, 2012, days after a Swiss institute reported finding elevated traces of a radioactive substance on the late leader's ...
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Report: Top Syrian diplomat announces defection
CBS News
Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf al-Fares, says he's joining the opposition, according to reports. ... Al-Fares told Al Jazeera in a statement he decided to make the switch after what he described as a horrible massacre carried out by the Assad regime ...
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CBS News
Arafat, the World's First Victim of Nuclear Dirty Bomb!
Palestine Chronicle
Eight years later, al-Jazeera news investigating team reported that a Swiss lab detected elevated traces of Polonium/210, a lethal radioactive agent on clothing said to be Arafat's. The Polonium, according to press releases, was the substance used in ...
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Palestine Chronicle
Pakistan polio campaign faces Taliban hurdle
Aljazeera.com
Dr. Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of polio, emergencies and country collaboration at the World Health Organisation, told Al Jazeera that it was important for the government to take heed of the Taliban's concerns over the potential of the ...
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Palestinian officials hesitant on Arafat autopsy
U.S. News & World Report
An investigation by the Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, in collaboration with Arafat's widow, Suha, has put new pressure on Arafat's successor, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to be seen as vigorously searching for the truth. Last week ...
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Middle East Syrian activists report new massacre
Aljazeera.com
A statement by the Hama Revolutionary Council said: "More than 220 people fell today in Traimseh. They died from bombardment by tanks and ... "We're hearing from activists that it started at 5am this morning, when the village was surrounded by ...
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The Arafat forensic file reopened
Ahram Online
The Al-Jazeera report revealed quite a few details that the commission should have been able to learn and that were previously unknown to the Palestinian public. Under the onslaught of public pressure, ... Nevertheless, the PA leadership has vowed to ...
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Annan 'appalled' by reports of Syria killings - World News
San Francisco Luxury News
Breaking news from Al Jazeera. Here's an excerpt: Kofi Annan, the UN's chief envoy to Syria, has said that he was "shocked and appalled" by reports by ac.
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Former Syria diplomat: Only force can topple Assad
Waxahachie Daily Light
"There is no roadmap ever with Bashar Assad, because he delays and ignores any plan, any statement that is agreed on internationally," Fares said in an interview with Al-Jazeera. "There is no way that he can be pushed from ... He would not comment on ...
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Threats, attacks hurt Pakistan's polio vaccination push
CIDRAP
Jul 17, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan, today opened fire on a doctor from Ghana working on a polio vaccination campaign and his Pakistani driver, putting both in the hospital, according to an Al Jazeera report. The shooting occurred ...
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US farm harvests hope for ending world hunger
Aljazeera.com
One such method, rice intensification, which involves planting just one rice seedling at a time, instead of the traditional cluster, has been a huge success that has been replicated in several locations around the world. Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher ...
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Arafat poisoned by polonium: Report
Pakistan Observer
Switzerland—Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, was poisoned by polonium, according to the findings of laboratory research carried out in Switzerland and cited in an Al-Jazeera report on Tuesday. The analysis focused on biological samples taken from the ...
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Syrian ambassador to Iraq defects
UPI.com
Al-Fares urged others in Syria to join him in abandoning the regime of President Bashar Assad, the Arab-language broadcaster al-Jazeera reported, saying it had obtained al-Fares' statement exclusively. "I announced my resignation as ... Soon after...
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UPI.com
Assad's Damascus Onslaught Most 'Intense' Yet
Newser
Neighborhoods across Damascus are facing a second day of regime attacks, and it has "never been this intense," says a leading activist. The army has been firing mortar rounds into areas held... WorldNews Summaries. | Newser. ... But al-Jazeera reports ...
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India seeks action over UAE boat shooting
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reporting from Delhi said: "The Indian authorities are pressing the UAE to charge those who are reponsible, this is fast becoming a diplomatic problem for India, the UAE and the US." An Indian fisherman was killed and three ...
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Aljazeera.com
Innovative US farming saves coral reefs
Aljazeera.com
Coral reefs, one of the world's oldest ecosystem, face a consant threat of destruction or degradation, but a new project aims to replace and restore the vital organisms. Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher reports from the world's largest reef restoration ...
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Arafat's widow plans to sue France
UPI.com
Immediately after his death in November 2004, Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian foreign minister, said the French doctors had "completely ruled out poison." Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language broadcaster,reported Swiss experts recently found traces of ...
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Group Says Israel Killed Arafat
Jags Report
Many felt a confirmation of their suspicions were made last week when a documentary was released by Al Jazeera that showed significant levels of polonium, which is radioactive, in the 75-year olds personal effects, which were given to Al Jazeera by the ...
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Nigeria: hundreds wed to offset rising divorce rates -- report
GlobalPost
Nigeria has wed 500 people – half of them divorcees, widows, or young unmarried girls – in a bid to combat skyrocketing divorce rates there, reported Al Jazeera today. The huge wedding event in the district of Kano was not limited to mere matchmaking.
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Committee finds that Arafat was poisoned
Daily News Egypt
“I want the world to know the truth about the assassination of Yasser Arafat,” she told Al-Jazeera. However, Suha Arafat has not named any organizations or suspects who could be responsible of her husband's killing. A nine-month long investigative ...
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Dunsmore: Arafat Post Mortem
Vermont Public Radio
(Dunsmore) The latest speculation about possible foul play in Yasser Arafat's death, was set off by an investigation by Al Jazeera, the Gulf Arab television network. According to its report, the Swiss Radiophysics Institute found "surprisingly" high ...
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Vermont Public Radio
Two Lebanese pilgrims to be freed, captors tell Al-Jazeera
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Two of the 11 Lebanese pilgrims who were kidnapped in Syria will be released, their captors said in a statement carried by Al-Jazeera Tuesday. “In response to the calls by the committee of Muslim scholars in Lebanon, we will release two of our ...
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The Daily Star
UN troops shell rebel positions in DR Congo
Aljazeera.com
The rebels, who have seized a number of towns along the Ugandan border, denied plans to advance on Goma, the AFP news agency reported. Barnabe Kikaya Bin Karubi, DRC's ambassador to Britain, told Al Jazeera that his country was trying to "give peace a ...
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In apparent flip-flop, Palestinian official now says no final decision yet on ...
Newser
Mrs. Arafat has cooperated closely with the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, giving the broadcaster some of her husband's belongings and his medical file. The Swiss lab reports were first published by Al-Jazeera after a nine-month investigation.
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Media, Mandela, and mayhem in the Congo
Aljazeera.com
A new bout of violence in central Africa is largely ignored by the rest of the world. ...Just as his inauguration in 1994 overshadowed the genocide then underway in Rwanda, this so-far non-event is getting more attention than the million Africans now ...
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Aljazeera.com
Arafat sister: Don't exhume late leader's body
Ma'an News Agency
The report confirmed the records originally published by Al Jazeera. Earlier, the head of a medical committee investigating Arafat's death said the late president died from poisoning, but could not confirm the use of a radioactive element called polonium.
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Ma'an News Agency
Press Release: Al-Jazeera Paints opens its latest modern outlets in Al Qaseem ...
MEED (subscription) (press release)
Al-Jazeera Paints, the Middle East and surrounding regions high-quality paints giant, announced the inauguration of its most pomp and modern showrooms in Al Ehsa city of the Eastern Province, and in Breeda city of Al Qaseem Region. ... Latest Research ...
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Arafat's Widow Seeks French Probe Into Husband's Death
RTT News
An investigative report by the Al-Jazeera news channel has said that the Swiss Radiophysics Institute has found "surprisingly" high levels of polonium-210 on Arafat's clothing - the same substance used to kill former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in ...
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Yasser Arafat was poisoned, says doctor
Firstpost
Al-Basheer, who launched an inquiry into the case, was speaking to reporters in West Bank. Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor, ordered a probe after Al-Jazeera TV concluded in an investigative report that Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium.
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Firstpost
Investigator: Arafat Died of Unknown Poison
CRIENGLISH.com
Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor, ordered the investigation after Arab satellite channelal-Jazeera aired an investigative report concluding that Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium. To confirm al-Jazeera's report, Arafat's body needs to be ...
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New Arafat medical file released in death probe
Press & Sun-Bulletin
These Greater Binghamton residents have a birthday today. - July 14- ... An investigation by the Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, in collaboration with Arafat's widow, Suha, has put new pressure on Arafat's successor, Palestinian President ...
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Mali Tuareg maintain independence claims
Aljazeera.com
Tuareg-led rebels who seized the north of Mali in April have denied reports that they were abandoning their claims for a separate state after the rebellion was hijacked by Islamist fighters. Moussa Ag Assarid, spokesperson for the National Movement for ...
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Aljazeera.com
Memorial for victims of Costa Concordia
Aljazeera.com
... since the cruise liner ran aground on the Giglio Island off Italy's western coast. Thirty-two people died in the disaster. The veseel has been lying there capsized since then, and has now become almost a landmark attracting visitors. Al Jazeera's ...
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Court serves ultimatum to Pakistan PM
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad: “It's quite clear that the prime minister has no choice now.” He said that the (ruling) party ... Al Jazeera. The heritage curse. Is World Heritage designation overwhelming the very sites it is meant ...
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Aljazeera.com
Polish countryside ravaged by tornadoes
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Emma Hayward reports that "the hurricanes were travelling up to 200km per hour and that many would have been suprised there were not more victims". Power lines were downed and roads were closed as hundreds of fire fighters worked to ...
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HSBC found involved in money laundering
Financial Express Bangladesh
Al Jazeera carried a report on its website based on the investigation report that also revealed that the largest bank of Europe allowed money laundering for seven years in terms of having lax controls. Not only Bangladesh, the bank provided money and ...
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Arafat died from poisoning
China.org.cn
Abdullah Al-Basheer, Arafat's death inquiry commission, said, "We're not one-hundred-percent sure to say Arafat died from polonium poisoning. It might be polonium, and it also can be other poisonous substances." To confirm Al-Jazeera's report, Arafat's ...
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China.org.cn
War News Updates: World News Briefs -- July 13, 2012
By War News Updates Editor
News Aggregator That Covers The World's Major Wars And Conflicts. Military ... Syrian ActivistsReport New Massacre -- Al Jazeera ... A statement by the Hama Revolutionary Council said: "More than 220 people fell today in Traimseh.
War News Updates
Syria crisis: first diplomat has defected, reports say - Wednesday 11 ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web .... Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle.../syria-russia-un-draft-live
Syria crisis: first diplomat has defected, reports say - live updates ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web. News · Sport ....Fares's defection ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/.../syria-russia-un-draft-live?...
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