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fierce winter storm hit the Levant on January 9th, leaving at least eight people dead in the region and bringing an unusual foot of snow to Jordan. Kuwait: The Constitutional Court is scheduled to set hearings to investigate the 51 challenges submitted against the parliamentary election results. The co
Enjoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi held a third trilateral meeting with US and Russian diplomats on January 11th in Geneva. According to press reports, Brahimi was quoted after the meeting as saying, "if you are asking me whether a solution is around the corner, I'm not sure that is the case." Jordan: As o
rrying signals of new authoritarianism which will give n=w impetus to solidify and unify the opposition. Yemen is equally unpredictable. Jordan and Kuwait are shaky and face uncert=inty. Bahrain seems slowly to cope adequately with its issues. Lebanon is =haking under the spill-over of the conflict in
the table. On the table western powers= Russia, China, Iran and the UN are calling for a diplomatic and political=solution, spearheaded by UN envoy Brahimi. Under the table a vicious milit=ry escalation is being conducted by both sides with close intelligence co-=peration at the highest level through th
ael and North Korea — have acquired nuclear weapons. One country unambiguously tried and was stopped (Iraq, before it was foolish enough to invade Kuwait). In each case, the reasons why these countries decided to build nuclear weapons had to do with the specifics of their security situations rather t
ncluding two missions led by Kofi Annan and Lakhdar Brahimi, two diplomats of the highest standing. Thanks to inside knowledge, we can report that Brahimi has offered the fairest and the most realistic compromise formula. More recently, Moaz Al-Khatib, the nominal head of the Syrian opposition, has go
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Barack Obama
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Yemen
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Lebanon
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Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
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Tunisia
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Bill Clinton
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Tehran
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Damascus
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European Parliament
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Abu Dhabi
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Vladimir Putin
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Geneva
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