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Tuesday, 6 Dec, 2011
Over the weekend IRNA, the Iranian state news agency, as well as the semi-official FARS agency, carried claims from an un-named military source that air defense forces had shot down a US spy plane over Iranian territory. Subsequently, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan issued a statement to the effect that the plane could be an unmanned and unarmed reconnaissance drone, which had gone missing the previous week.
"The UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] to ...
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Achieving truly sustainable development in the Arab states will require bolder action on internal inequalities and environmental hazards, says the 2011 Human Development Report, released here today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The 2011 Report, titled Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All, calls for broader efforts to foster equitable human development by reducing gender imbalances and expanding opportunities for those among the countries’ marginalized...
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The now protracted conflict in Syria has reached a point where matters getting worse is the norm. No tipping point has been reached and the harshest demands are coming from the...
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Tuesday, 29 Nov, 2011
Bassem Samir of the Egyptian Democratic Academy (EDA) is watching the elections unfold on a monitor in his organization’s office in Giza, across the water from Tahrir. He ha...
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Monday, 28 Nov, 2011
The Arab League’s vote to sanction Syria represents a decisive break after months of failed diplomacy. This move follows up on the decision made in Rabat the previous we...
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
Libya’s new government—a patchwork of militias, tribes and city states—has achieved two significant victories this past weekend in their attempt to remove the last vestig...
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
A third day of protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has been met with continued force from the Egyptian Army. The governing Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is attemptin...
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Libya has declared itself open for business. A conference in London next week will promote Libya as an investment opportunity for British business. Billed as a sequel to a simi...
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Wednesday, 9 Nov, 2011
The UN’s nuclear energy watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has once again found itself caught in a storm of rhetoric following yesterday’s release of ...
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Tuesday, 8 Nov, 2011
Every day the crisis in Syria is moving towards a critical point. Despite the Syrian government agreeing to a deal brokered by the Arab League on 2 November—which pledged t...
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