Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

Egypt’s Embarrassing Baby Boom

The Media Line Staff Cairo, Egypt David E. Miller – Egypt’s birth rate dramatically increased in 2009 compared to the previous year, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government-led birth control policies. “A high birthrate isn’t good for Egypt,” Maye Kassem, a political scientist from the American University in Cairo, told The Media Line. “The [...]

UNRWA Strike Closes Schools, Clinics In West Bank Camps

The Media Line Staff West Bank, Palestinian Territory David E. Miller – Schools and clinics are shuttered, and garbage has been piling up on streets across the West Bank’s 19 refugee camps, as some 5,000 striking employees of the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) have brought critical public services to a halt in [...]

Jordan Hosts Nuclear Inspectors With a Post-Apocalypse Landscape

The Media Line Staff Dead Sea, Jordan (TML) – Nuclear experts from around the world were climbing into craters and clamouring up landslides as they gathered in a desolate corner of Jordan beside the Dead Sea to test their ability to uncover evidence of an unauthorized test explosion. Some 35 experts from 20 countries poured [...]

U.N., U.S., Palestinians Blast Israel For Resuming Settlement Construction

AHN News Staff Tel Aviv, Israel (AHN) – In less than a month after Israel’s construction ban expired, Jewish settlers have begun building over 600 homes in the disputed West Bank region. The construction comes at a time when Middle East peace talks were already on the verge of collapse. Now, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud [...]

Syria, Iran Object To $2.75 Billion U.S.-Israel Defense Deal

AHN News Staff Damascus, Syria (AHN) – Just a day after the United States signed a $2.75 billion deal to sell 20 F-35 fighter jets to Israel, Syria opposed the move and said that the defense deal will threaten security in the region. The deal came as an offer from Washington to Tel Aviv to [...]

Netanyahu: U.N. Flotilla Raid Report Is “Biased”

AHN News Staff New York, NY, United States (AHN) – A day after the United Nations Human Rights Commission declared that the military raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla breached international laws, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the report as biased and distorted. Netanyahu said that the entire world saw videos of soldiers coming [...]

Historic shifts are underway on the New Silk Road where East meets West creating alternative investment opportunities

You probably have heard of NAFTA (North America Free Trade Association), OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countires), the EU (European Union) and the BRIC (Brazil Russia India China) countries … but have you heard about MENA?   Ok, you ask … what is it and why should I care?   When conventional wisdom is not [...]

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