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November 10, 2009: For the last five years, satellite photos have shown continuing constructing of an underground bunker complex north of Damascus, Syria, This is believed to be the control center for the national air defense system.
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri will announce a new national unity government in the next two days after clinching a deal with the opposition on its make-up, politicians from both sides said on Saturday.
THE HOUSE AND SENATE BHRC records local representatives’ votes on three roll calls from the week of October 26-30. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week. RETAIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING (H 4298) House 153-0, approved a bill that would require owners of “expiring use” affordable housing to notify a tenant at least two years before bringing a unit’s rent back to market rates.
A Canadian man who was detained at a New York airport and then moved to Syria, where he says he was tortured, cannot sue the United States, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
November 8, 2009: A few thousand years ago, nearly everyone lived in a tribal (a collection of families and clans related by blood) culture. But since then, the tribal social relationships have faded, superseded by kingdoms and nations.
November 8, 2009: Greece has joined the growing list of countries that are putting more emphasis on having the best trained troops in their combat units.
Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed government line-up, Hezbollah said on Saturday, paving the way to the end of five months of tortuous negotiations following a June general election.
“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year. Just this week, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York City, dismissed Arar’s case against the government officials (including FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Homeland Security Secretary ...
Hezbollah's backers Iran and Syria are hindering the formation of a cabinet in Lebanon, which has been without government since a general vote in June, Christian leader Samir Geagea said on Monday.
The founder of the Yuma Bike Club and YBC Racing is gone, but Doug Flynn's mission moves forward.
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions.
Lebanon's opposition, including Iranian-backed Hezbollah, agreed on Friday to join a national unity government proposed by Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri, a senior opposition source said.
Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions.
iseemedia Inc. , a leading provider of Blackberry-like services to the mass mobile phone market today announced that it has begun deployment of iseemail with Syria's leading mobile network operator, MTN, with more than 3.5 million subscribers.
Lebanon's opposition, which includes Hezbollah, has agreed to a unity government proposed by Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri. Sources say opposition leaders reached the agreement during meetings late Friday, and that a new Cabinet could be formed within the next two days.
Hundreds of tons of weaponry, ten times the size of the Karine A shipment of 2002, were seized in an overnight raid Tuesday by the Israeli navy, some 100 nautical miles west of Israel, officials said.
