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Saudi Arabia Gets a New Oil Czar

Edit Bloomberg 13 May 2016
Saudi Arabia’s new oil minister, Khalid al-Falih, landed his job on May 7 in a major housecleaning by King Salman and his son Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Al-Falih, who’s also chairman of the board of directors at state producer Saudi Aramco (a job he’ll hold on to), says he’ll maintain the policies of his predecessor, Ali al-Naimi, who is in his 80s ... Nasser succeeded al-Falih last May....

A commander in Jabhat Al-Nusra and 15 from its fighters and the Islamic Turkestan Party’s fighters at least were killed due to tens of airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur airbase (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
Original documenthttp.//www.syriahr.com/en/2016/05/12/a-commander-in-jabhat-al-nusra-and-15-from-its-fighters-and-the-islamic-turkestan-partys-fighters-at-least-were-killed-due-to-tens-of-airstrikes-on-abu-al-duhur-airbase/....

Jaysh al-Sunna hold Democratic Union the responsibility for the actions of “Battalion 13” and clear its responsibility regarding shelling Afrin (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
The leadership of Jaysh al-Sunna issued a statement and SOHR received a copy of it, in the statement they said.. 'the leadership of Jaysh al-Sunna declares that it claim no responsibility for the actions of Battalion 13, which is stationed in the town ... Jaysh al-Sunna concluded the statement by saying....

Uganda urged to arrest al-Bashir

Edit Topix 13 May 2016
Activists are calling on Uganda to do what South Africa did not - arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he visits. A prominent international human rights group has urged the Ugandan government to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and send him to face trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, if he arrives in Uganda ... ....

U.S. airstrike kills 5 al-Shabaab militants in Somalia

Edit Topix 13 May 2016
An American airstrike on a suspected extortion checkpoint of the Somali terror group al-Shabaab ended with five militants dead, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday. The strike, which took place in an area west of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, was called in by a U.S. special operations team assisting Ugandan forces during a raid on the al-Shabaab checkpoint, Pentagon spokesman Capt ... ....

Bahraini protesters stage fresh anti-regime rallies

Edit Press TV 13 May 2016
The marchers, carrying portraits of Salman and Bahrain’s national flags, demanded the freedom of Salman, who heads the country’s main opposition bloc, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society ... The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has repeatedly called on the Manama regime to immediately release the al-Wefaq leader....

ISIS Kills 17 Iraqi Soldiers

Edit Newsweek 13 May 2016
Amaq news agency, which supports Islamic State, said two militants had clashed with police at al-Zeidan station before setting off their explosives-filled vests ... A recent surge in bombings has heightened criticism of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as he grapples with a political crisis over his attempts to overhaul his cabinet to weed out corruption and mismanagement....

Syria: armed groups may have used chemical weapons in Aleppo - new evidence of war crimes (Amnesty International United Kingdom Section)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
Two of the armed groups conducting attacks on Sheikh Maqsoud - Ahrar al Sham and Army of Islam - have sent representatives to the UN-brokered negotiations on Syria in Geneva, while the others have approved delegates to represent them at the talks ... Islamic Movement of Ahrar ash-Sham, Army of Islam, al-Shamia Front, Brigade of Sultan Murad, Sultan ......

Can Assad keep crossing the chemical ‘red line’?

Edit Stars and Stripes 13 May 2016
Obama justified his restraint by citing the diplomatic agreement that was brokered by the U.S. and Russia to destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal ... The Assad regime often justifies such attacks by saying it is bombing the Islamic State group or Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria ... “There are still questions ... has been unable to force opposition fighters to disentangle themselves from Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State group ... ....

Pitbull anuncia THE BAD MAN TOUR junto a Prince Royce y con Farruko como invitado especial

Edit PR Newswire 13 May 2016
LOS ÁNGELES, 12 de mayo de 2016 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Pitbull, la superestrella mundial y el ganador al GRAMMY®, lanzará una gigantesca gira norteaméricana éste verano junto con  la mega estrella latina, el cantante y compositor Prince ... ....

Israel renews detention of pro-Hamas Palestinian scientist

Edit Topix 13 May 2016
Israel's military has renewed the detention without charges of a renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, asserting he posed a "significant" security threat. Imad Barghouthi, a professor at Jerusalem's Al-Quds University who once worked on NASA-funded projects in the United States, was arrested in late April by Israeli security forces at a checkpoint near the village of Nabi Saleh, west of Ramallah in the West Bank ... ....

Monitor

Edit Zeenews 13 May 2016
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 60 air raids targeted the Abu Duhur military airport in Idlib province which Al-Nusra and allied Islamist fighters seized in September ... ....

Foreign genes in H. dujardini genome assemblies [Letters (Online Only)]>

Edit PNAS 13 May 2016
Our report (1) describing the discovery of extensive horizontal gene transfer in a tardigrade genome has raised questions from other groups who were sequencing the Hypsibius dujardini genome in parallel or who have done new experiments and analyses since our report (2–5). Bemm et al. (2) now report filtering our... ....
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