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Syria: what can be done? | Abdel Bari Atwan, Michael Weiss, Shashank Joshi and Mehdi Hasan
guardian.co.uk, 10 Feb 2012
Abdel Bari Atwan, Michael Weiss, Seumas Milne, Shashank Joshi and Mehdi Hasan
Abdel Bari Atwan, Michael Weiss, Seumas Milne, Shashank Joshi and Mehdi Hasan: Five commentators discuss the merits of five ways in which the outside world could respond to Syria's crisis
of the conflict are too great, with Russia, and possibly China standing with Syria and Hezbollah against Nato and Israel. Such action would need a UN resolution which is clearly not forthcoming given Russia and China vetoed the last attempt to condemn Assad…
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Falkland Islands newspaper calls Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a bitch
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09 Feb ' 11:41
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Syria: live from the frontline in Homs
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Follow live updates as the Guardian's Martin Chulov describes intense fighting between the Syrian Army and military defectors near Homs
precious metals.But the Turkish ambassador, Selim Yenel, told Reuters: We don't believe in sanctions. They never work. That's why we are against them in ... In Syria they will hurt people. Whether in the long…
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Burn after viewing: DVD screeners are part of award season – and piracy
guardian.co.uk, 9 Feb 2012
The Baftas and Oscars begin with a DVD being sent out to thousands of members of the industry bodies. It's a vital part of marketing – but it's also blamed for the exponential rise of piracy
and the divorce drama A Separation on to Bafta's online platforms. The results though, have definitely been mixed: Kevin has three nominations, including best actress for Tilda Swinton, while Pina and A Separation are up for best foreign-language film…
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09 Feb ' 05:54
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Syria: UN offers help as Homs assault continues - live updates
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Follow live updates as the UN offers to join the Arab League monitoring mission amid a continuing crackdown on opposition strongholds
is expelling four Syrian diplomats.10.29am: Syria's top Sunni cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Badreddin Hassoun, met president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday and thanked for supporting…
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Bahraini activist goes on hunger strike before anniversary of uprising
The Guardian, 9 Feb 2012
Reuters in Dubai
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, convicted of leading last year's protests, restarts hunger strike calling for his release
troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to help crush the month-old uprising.The government said the island's majority Shia Muslims had co-ordinated the protests with for sectarian reasons, an accusation the opposition has denied.…
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Barn owls and kestrels as biological control agents [video] | GrrlScientist
guardian.co.uk, 9 Feb 2012
to Syria, to , to other countries we cannot go, and you will show them the system."This international collaborative project is full of win for just so many reasons. As the film's narrator enthuses: "In the Middle East, the dove has been replaced…
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Barn owls and kestrels as biological control agents [video] | @GrrlScientist
guardian.co.uk, 9 Feb 2012
Documentary of an international collaborative conservation effort that relies on birds, scientists and farmers
that the barn owl is beneficial to agriculture", according to the film's narrator. It is hoped that encouraging birds of prey to nest and hunt on agricultural lands will improve farming practices elsewhere, too. "Then you will go to Syria, to …
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Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues - Wednesday 8 February
a regional war, he says. • The Iranian parliament has taken the unprecedented step of summoning president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to answer…
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Thinking the Twentieth Century
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.7.08pm: 's deputy foreign minister has said 11 Iranians kidnapped in Syria have been released, Reuters reports.Hossein Amir Abdollahian said 18 other Iranians are still being held hostage in an attempt to pressure Tehran to abandon…
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Bashar al-Assad's Syria offers Iran a springboard into the Arab Middle East
If Iran cannot save Assad, its aim is to ensure his successor remains closely allied and does not defect to the western camp
Bashar al-Assad's Syria offers a springboard into the Arab Middle East … opponents. But appearances are deceptive. The foreign power most actively involved inside Syria is not the US or Britain, France or Turkey. Neither is it Russia, Saudi Arabia nor its Gulf allies. It is – and it is fighting fiercely to maintain … If Iran cannot save Assad, its aim is to ensure his successor remains closely allied and does not defect to the western camp…
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Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado results: panel verdict | James Antle, Cheri Jacobus, Matt Lewis, Tim Montgomerie, Grover Norquist and Michael Wissot
guardian.co.uk, 8 Feb 2012
James AntleCheri Jacobus, Matt Lewis, Tim Montgomerie, Grover Norquist and Michael Wissot
James Antle, Cheri Jacobus, Matt Lewis, Tim Montgomerie, Grover Norquist and Michael Wissot: Our roster of Republican experts assesses the significance of Rick Santorum's surge – and Mitt Romney's poor showing
more about the danger of a nuclear Iran. He needs to set out how he'll reverse Obama's restrictions on Catholic charities. GOP voters need more reasons to vote for him. The ball is in your court, Governor Romney.Tim…
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Finnish sci-fi Nazi movie is hot ticket at Berlinale
The Guardian, 8 Feb 2012
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for protest against the arrest of the director Jafar Panahi. Accused of inciting opposition protests in 2009 and making a film without permission, Panahi was banned from travelling outside Iran so was unable to take his seat on the Berlinale jury…
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08 Feb ' 07:13
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Finnish sci-fi Nazi movie is hot ticket at Berlin film festival
The Guardian, 8 Feb 2012
Helen Pidd, Berlin
Iron Sky, which imagines Nazi invasion from secret moon base, sells more tickets than Werner Herzog and Angelina Jolie films
how a new society should look.The film festival is well known for engaging in political debate. Last year, it became a platform to protest against the arrest of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Accused of inciting opposition protests in 2009…
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08 Feb ' 02:14
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Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues - live updates
guardian.co.uk, 8 Feb 2012
Follow live updates as the siege of Homs continues for a fifth day despite president Bashar al-Assad pledge to end the violence
a regional war, he says. • The parliament has taken the unprecedented step of summoning president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to answer…
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Making the Future by Noam Chomsky – review
The Guardian, 8 Feb 2012
In demonising America, Chomsky has fallen into the same trap as the neocons, says John Gray
in the Middle East is exclusively the work of America and Israel. There is no struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or if any such struggle does exist it can be easily resolved so long as the US is ready to alter its policies. Again, unending war…
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Intervention in Syria will escalate not stop the killing | Seumas Milne
Iran's main strategic ally – is what has made the crisis so toxic in a region where the west and its Arab clients…
officials of Saddam's ruling Ba'ath party. Four were held because they were and in possession of an enormous sum of cash – more than $600,000 – and a letter offering a bounty for each American killed.The remainder of the prisoners appear…
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