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Harvard decided Friday to evacuate students and staff in Lebanon by busing them to Damascus, Syria, and then flying them to Cyprus...
...boat to Cyprus. Many of the 100 or so other men milling around with him probably think the same. Theirs are tales of constant flight from one crisis to another. Ismael, for example, fled Darfur in Sudan to work in Iraq, until the Americans invaded and he fled to Syria, where he was arrested for entering the country illegally. For two months, his Syrian jailors beat him every day, he said, before releasing him to go to Lebanon."Where will I go now?" he asks. He can't return to Sudan, where he fears Arab militias will kill...
...addition, says the State Department official,"North Korea's two biggest customers for missiles and missile technology are Iran and Syria. Those states would also be prohibited from any kind of missile cooperation with North Korea. They'll try to get around it, but they'll be in violation of a Security Council mandate." Iranian officials in particular may worry that getting caught dealing with North Korea will sway China to support tough U.S.-European proposals aimed at forcing Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions...
...three-day event he had hosted at the Konstantinovsky Palace, his sumptuous Maritime Residence in the St. Petersburg suburb of Strelna, could not camouflage embarrassing questions about the would-be world leader's decision-making. Putin insists that his engagement with Hamas, and his relationship with Iran and Syria, creates channels of communication that can help solve problems. At the G-8 summit, he made a great show of using these channels, pledging serious efforts to set free the Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas and Hizballah and help end missile attacks on Israel - conveniently avoiding the fact that Russia...
...remain missing. Sawiris once shut down IraQna for a couple of days to compel the release of some of his employees. Insurgents, he explains, don't like to be without service. And IraQna has turned out to be a relatively safe bet financially compared with Orascom's adventures in Syria and Yemen, where Orascom was muscled out of partnerships in both countries, says Sawiris, with the Arab regimes there affording no protection or legal recourse. That behavior won't cut it much longer, and governments like Egypt's now realize that Arab businesses have to play...