Archives for July, 2013

Delegates attend a national dialogue meeting at a hotel in Sanaa March 26, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXXY12

الحوار الوطني في اليمن يشلّ كل شيء.. سواه

A customer shops for clothes at a clothing store in Baghdad's Karrada district August 14, 2012. Iraq relies on imports from neighbours like Syria, Turkey and Iran for 95 percent of its consumer goods. Syria in particular is a key supplier of manufactured goods, fresh vegetables and fruit. But as an uprising there against President Bashar al-Assad grinds through its 17th month, the supply of Syrian goods to Iraq is slowly drying up as Syrian businesses are forced to close and trucks struggle to cross borders

العراق يستعدّ لتطبيق التعرفة الجمركيّة.. وسط تنازع الصلاحيات بين بغداد وإربيل

A resident buys a newspaper from a kiosk in Baghdad February 23, 2009. A boom in local media since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 has given Iraqis a choice between some 200 print outlets, 60 radio stations and 30 TV channels in Arabic, Turkmen, Syriac and two Kurdish dialects. Yet most media outlets remain dominated by sectarian and party patrons who use them for their own ends, and have yet to become commercially sustainable enterprises let alone watchdogs keeping government under scrutiny, the favoured Wes

ضغط مدني يجبر البرلمان العراقي على وقف تشريعات تحاصر الحريّات

البرلمان العراقي يوقف تشريع قانونَين مثيرَين للجدل بعد ضغوط مدنيّة.

$Caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil points at a map during a tour of areas believed to have gas reserves, off Lebanon's coast near Beirut May 30, 2013. Offshore seismic surveys suggest Lebanon has at least 30 trillion cubic feet in just a small fraction of its Mediterranean waters Bassil said. Lebanon has selected 46 international oil companies to bid to explore for gas off its coast, where survey ships have been assessing prospects after discoveries in waters off neighbouring Israel and Cyprus. Pictur$

"كاريش" أول نزاع إسرائيلي-لبناني على الغاز

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout anti-army slogans during a protest in Cairo July 9, 2013. Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour on Tuesday named liberal economist and former finance minister Hazem el-Beblawi as prime minister in a transitional government, as the authorities sought to steer the country to new parliamentary and presidential elections. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX11HY6

الشارعان العراقي والإيراني يختلفان في ردود فعلهما تجاه سقوط الإخوان في مصر

Civil Defence members, security personnel and civilians gather at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbs July 9, 2013. At least 18 people were wounded by a car bomb blast in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a stronghold of the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria's civil war, security sources said. The sources were unable to confirm initial reports from medics at the scene that an unspecified number were killed in the massive blast. REUTERS/Issam Kobe

انفجار الضاحية.. اختراق لأمن حزب الله

Lebanese military police inspect the remains of a vehicle, at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbs, July 9, 2013. A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a Beirut stronghold district of the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria's civil war, wounding at least 38 people, a hospital official told Reuters. REUTERS/Hasan Shaaban (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX11HK5

مصادر لبنانيّة: الالتزام الدولي بأمن لبنان مستمرّ

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani (L) in Baghdad, July 7, 2013. Barzani visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step to resolve disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil. The visit follows an equally rare trip by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who met Barzani in Kurdistan last month, breaking ice between leaders who have repeatedly accused each other of vi

لحظة 30 يونيو المصريّة.. قراءات عراقيّة مبتورة

لحظة 30 يونيو المصريّة تمّت قرائتها عراقياً بشكل مبتور سواء من قبل الأطراف التي أيّدت التغيير المصري أو تلك التي عارضتها.

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah carry his pictures and shout slogans near the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbs, July 9, 2013. A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a Beirut stronghold district of the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria's civil war, wounding at least 38 people, a hospital official told Reuters. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX11HIU

قراءة حزب الله لإقصاء مرسي

A resident walks past election campaign posters on Baghdad's Saadoun street January 3, 2009. The January 31 local election will apportion 440 seats on local councils that in turn name powerful regional governors. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ) - RTR230LK

قانون المحافظات العراقي يدعم الدولة اللامركزيّة

Goldsmith shops are seen in a market in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad March 12, 2012. Gunmen often carry out lethal robbery attacks on goldsmith shops mostly in Baghdad, with the latest heist on a gold market on Monday causing the death of nine people. Picture taken March 12, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2ZBBG

العراقيّون يخزّنون الذهب بدلاً من العملة الصعبة

A Palestinian man carries cooking gas canisters at a gas filling station in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip June 24, 2013. Egypt has intensified a crackdown on smuggling tunnels between its volatile Sinai desert and the Gaza Strip, causing a steep hike in petrol and cement prices in the Palestinian territory. Many Gaza residents complain they have been without cooking gas for weeks, with tunnel supplies low and imports from Israel scarce. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY EN

بعد اغلاق مصر للأنفاق ومعبر رفح..قطاع غزة مُهدد بكارثة بيئية وإنسانية

Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman (R) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in Baabda, near Beirut July 3, 2013. REUTERS/Dalati Nohra/Handout via Reuters (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTX11BAD

!أبو مازن من بيروت: لن ألفظ كلمة مقاومة مسلّحة

هل تكون العودة إلى المفاوضات عبر بوابة تحرير الأسرى وليس تجميد الاستيطان؟

Bullet casings are seen on a street , during clashes with gunmen of hardline Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir, in Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 24, 2013. Lebanese soldiers fought Sunni Muslim gunmen in the southern city of Sidon on Monday in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence fuelled by sectarian divisions over the civil war in neighbouring Syria. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTX10YXN

الأسير.. ظاهرة عابرة أم أزمة مجتمع؟

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) attends the International Islamic Conference for the Convergence and Dialogue in Baghdad April 27, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) - RTXZ1ML

العراق: تشريع مجموعة من القوانين في صفقة سياسيّة واحدة

كتب علي عبد السادة عن سلة القوانين المتوقفة في البرلمان العراق لحاجتها الى توافق بين الكتل السياسية العراقية.