SUSRIS Daily News – Excerpts from International Media Reports
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News-2013-01-11
Following up on yesterday’s essay Wintry Weather, I was struck by photographs of the unusually heavy winter storm that just blanketed many Middle Eastern countries in snow. I discovered a wide range of unique images, from Saudis tossing snowballs to Israelis on sleds to the newly white roofs of …
For the first time, I believe, we are seeing the formation of partnerships between those in the private and public sectors in addressing the employment issue. This is a national issue of the utmost importance. It affects us all deeply. We must think first as ‘national citizens’ before we think …
SRBros Entertainment presents a humorous take on behavior you want to avoid when in a mosque. Things Not to Do in a Masjid is another in their series of parodies and skits….
Sri Lanka recalled its envoy to Saudi Arabia after the execution of a Sri Lankan housemaid over the death of an infant in her care in 2005, the government said on Thursday. Rizana Nafeek was beheaded in the town of Dawadmy, near the capital Riyadh, on Wednesday morning after being sentenced …
Mr. Hagel\’s unlikely road from Republican stalwart to apostate to nominee for Secretary of Defense begins in Vietnam and takes a sharp turn at Iraq. The son of a lumberyard worker, he grew up in Ainsworth, Neb., joined the Army\’s Ninth Infantry Division and in 1968 served as an infantry …
The US and Afghanistan have reached the ‘last chapter’ in their effort to establish a sovereign Afghanistan that can provide for its own security, Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, said. Panetta made the comments while meeting visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Pentagon on …
The Russian diplomats working on resolving the Syrian conflict are more and more frequently heard to say the word ‘Dayton.’ The Dayton Accord of 1995, which ended the war in Bosnia, has faced much criticism since that time, because it has not provided the basis for stable statehood in that …
Women and girls were in the forefront when the uprising began nearly two years ago with peaceful protests, in part because they were considered less likely than men to arouse the suspicions of the government’s security apparatus. But now — largely because the men in their lives urged them …
This is an Israeli right whose soaring political force is Naftali Bennett, an ex-IDF commando, former head of the Council of Settlements and previous top aide to Netanyahu, who brushes aside the notion of a Palestinian state anywhere in the biblical Land of Israel. It’s just not going to …
American disenchantment with an ‘Arab Spring’ they see as producing mainly Muslim Brotherhood victories in Egypt and violence in Benghazi is palpable. Between April 2011 and October 2012, there was a 17-point drop in the percentage of Americans who believed that changes in the Arab world would …
Saudi Arabia’s motorsports team The Saudi Falcons led by Red Bull athlete Prince Abdulaziz Turki Al-Faisal (ATF) will be contesting in the 8th edition of the Dunlop 24hrs race at the Dubai Autodrome today.ATF who will be leading on both legs of the race, will have members Dirk Adorf, Dominik …Previous post: How to Win the Middle East – Prince Turki al-Faisal
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