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BEIRUT: Syria's army has warned citizens to evacuate the town of Qusayr ahead of an attack, a military source said on Friday, but an activist denied that and said there was no safe route out."Leaflets were dropped over Qusayr asking civilians to leave the city, with a map of a safe route by which to evacuate, because the attack against the city is coming soon if the rebels do not surrender," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.Activist Hadi al-Abdullah, who spoke to AFP over the Internet, denied the claim."I am in the town of Qusayr, and this morning I visited two villages nearby, and I can assure you no leaflets were dropped anywhere near here," he said."What is more worrying than that is that there is no safe exit for civilians. All of us here in Qusayr have been condemned by the regime to a slow death," added ...
ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi tourism development company which is building local branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums posted a widening loss last year amid the emirate's property slump and said it could take seven years to turn a profit.The state-owned Tourism and Development Investment Company (TDIC) opened a slew of resorts and handed overs hundreds of villas in 2012 but said it might need to sell more assets this year."Asset sales remain a ...
UNITED NATIONS: Lakhdar Brahimi has withdrawn a threat to resign as UN-Arab League envoy on the Syria conflict after Russia and the United States launched a joint political initiative, officials said Thursday.UN leader Ban Ki-moon "has asked the joint special envoy to stay on and he has accepted to stay on," UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson told reporters, praising the US-Russia effort to organize a conference on the two-year-old conflict.Brahimi had told the UN ...
WASHINGTON: The United States warned Israel on Thursday that its reported plans to build additional settlement housing in the West Bank were "counterproductive.""As the president said, Israelis must recognize that continued settlement activity is counterproductive to the cause of peace and that an independent Palestine must be viable, with real borders that have to be drawn," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.The comment came after Israeli officials announced plans for nearly 300 new settler homes ...
ROME: The number of Syrian refugees flooding into Jordan could make up some 40 percent of the kingdom's population by the middle of 2014, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said on Thursday."We have 10 percent of our population today, in the form of Syrian refugees, it is expected to rise to about 20 to 25 percent given the current rates by the end of this year, and possibly to about 40 percent by the middle ...
ROME: US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cannot be part of a transitional government in Syria.Speaking before talks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, Kerry said all sides were working to "effect a transition government by mutual consent of both sides, which clearly means that in our judgement President Assad will not be a component of that transitional government."Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has 13 cases of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf, has killed seven people in the kingdom and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.Saudi Arabia has reported 23 confirmed cases in total, Qatar two, Jordan two, Britain two and the United Arab Emirates one, the WHO said. Although there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human spread, there are ...
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