http://www.aawsat.com/english Asharq Alawsat English Edition is your insight into the Middle East en-us © 2005 Saudi Research and Publishing Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 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.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28350 Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat – Following news reports that the US, European and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad, Syrian National Council [SNC] Executive Committee Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28349 ARBIL, (AFP) — The Iraqiya bloc sent a "positive signal" by ending its parliament boycott, and its eventual return to the cabinet depends on how Iraq's premier responds, the country's fugitive vice president Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28346 KUWAIT CITY, (AFP) — Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition has won a landslide majority in Kuwait's snap polls by securing 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, officials results released on Friday showed. Sunni Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28345 BEIRUT, (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead one person in the city of Hama on Friday as they broke up a protest marking the anniversary of a 1982 massacre by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28344 TEHRAN, (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday Iran would retaliate over Western-backed oil sanctions and any threat of attack, after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28343 UNITED NATIONS, (AFP) - UN Security Council members on Friday were considering a draft resolution condemning the bloody Syria crackdown that was amended in a bid to overcome Russian-led opposition. The Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28342 CAIRO, (Reuters) - Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of teargas to within meters of Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths of 74 people in Sat, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28340 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States, European governments and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad despite skepticism the defiant Syrian president is ready Fri, 02 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28329 CAIRO (AP) — Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, Fri, 02 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=28330 BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) — Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails flung slippers Thursday at an armored convoy carrying visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and tried to block the vehicles from Fri, 02 Feb 2012 18:10:34 GMT