Section: Middle East
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- Syria (70)
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Only 503,000 tourists visited Egypt in August 2016: CAPMAS
The number of tourist arrivals from all countries reached 503,000 during August 2016 compared to 915,200 tourists during August 2015, a decrease of 45%, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). CAPMAS stated in its monthly bulletin, issued this week, that the most important countries that influenced the...
Moscow cracks down on Crimea Tatar dissidents
Russian tactics echo KGB practice of forced psychiatric confinement …read more Source: World...
G7 sets common cyber-safety guidelines for financial sector
The Group of Seven industrial powers yesterday said they had agreed on guidelines for protecting the global financial sector from cyber attacks following a series of cross-border bank thefts by hackers. Policymakers have grown more worried about financial cyber security in the wake of numerous hacks of SWIFT, the global financial messaging...
Duterte plans visit to China, criticises ‘arrogant’ US
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he would soon visit China and hoped also to travel to Russia, as he again criticised longtime ally the United States for “arrogance”.The mission to China will be Duterte’s first outside of Southeast Asia since assuming the presidency on June 30, in a symbolic move highlighting the...
Lviv, Ukraine’s tourist gem unearths its tragic past
Celebrated as one of Ukraine’s most elegant cities, Lviv is still uncovering its recent history of totalitarian crimes. …read more Source: AL...
Putin shuns Paris visit after France offers talks only on Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not come to Paris next week after declining to meet President Francois Hollande only for talks on Syria, a source in Hollande’s office said, the latest deterioration in ties between Moscow and the West. French officials have been grappling for ways to put new pressure on Russia after Moscow vetoed a...
Escalation in Syria means EU less likely to soften stance on Russia
Outraged by Russia’s intensified air strikes on rebels in Syria, the European Union is now less likely to ease sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine, diplomats say, and some in the bloc are raising the prospect of more punitive steps against the Kremlin. While the EU says conflicts in Syria and Ukraine need to be kept separate, the latest...
Russia and Turkey sign gas deal, seek common ground on Syria as ties warm
Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Monday for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalisation in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hosted Russia’s Vladimir Putin at an Ottoman-era villa in...
Syrian Dina Sheikh Ali wins five medals at Arab Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship
Kiev, SANA – The Syrian expatriate and athlete Dina Sheikh Ali ranked second at the Arab Rhythmic Gymnastics championship held in Tunisia in the beginning of October 2016. The athlete Sheikh Ali won five medals- a gold, three silvers and a bronze. Gymnast Dina Sheikh Ali, currently lives in Ukraine, has participated in several international...
Kremlin: Putin to meet Poroshenko, Hollande, Merkel on Oct. 19
…read more Source: Al-Manar TV
