http://www.aawsat.com/english Asharq Alawsat English Edition is your insight into the Middle East en-us © 2005 Saudi Research and Publishing Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT 1 http://www.aawsat.com/english http://www.aawsat.com/english/images/aaaeng.gif 144 33 Asharq-e delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest stories, weather, entertainment, politics in the Middle East http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29646 London/Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat – As the Syrian military continued to shell various areas of the country yesterday, Free Syrian Army [FSA] sources informed Asharq Al-Awsat that Lebanese kill-squads affiliated Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29640 Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – An Egyptian government official informed Asharq Al-Awsat that the country’s Islamists are seeking to develop legislation pardoning all those convicted and accused in terrorism-related Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29638 RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29637 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29635 CAIRO (AP) — At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29634 BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, activists said, and members of a team of U.N. monitors caught in the incident said they were in rebel hands Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29633 BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - The trial of Iraq's fugitive vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, opened in his absence on Tuesday and a lawmaker whose relatives were allegedly killed by death squads under his orders Wed, 15 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29630 CAIRO, (AP) — A leading Egyptian presidential candidate has lashed out at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in an already unprecedentedly heated campaign. These Wed, 15 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29629 Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat – Following the end of the Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] consultative summit in Riyadh, chaired by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the GCC Wed, 15 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29627 RAMALLAH,(AP) — Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing Wed, 15 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT