Dealing with the refugees in Syria Britain file

the British public about the middle of Syrian refugees, it has raised political figures here debate about the future of these refugees, particularly younger ones.

Paddy Ashdown revealed the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Prime Minister David Cameron's plan aims to restore Syrian refugees deported when they reach the age of 18, saying it is inhumane conduct.

Cameron plan aims to restore Syrian refugees deported when they reach the age of 18

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Cameron plan aims to restore Syrian refugees deported when they reach the age of 18

This is the first criticism of the plan, developed by Cameron and announced in front of the House of Commons a few days ago, when he tried to link the humanitarian aspects of the crisis and the ongoing conflict in Syria.

Cameron returned and denied what came in Ashdown's comments, stressing that it will allow for Syrian refugees to stay in Britain, while the varied attitudes of citizens about their arrival.

It is expected that the first group of Syrian refugees up to Britain within days

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is expected that the first group of Syrian refugees up to Britain within days

It is expected that the first group of Syrian refugees up to Britain within days, while the government is currently coordinating with the municipalities, which will take them, saying the words of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, that the designated amount of money available.

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China recognizes the existence of one of its nationals in the grip of "Daesh

A spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry Hong Lei told a news conference on Friday September / September 11: "After the initial verification operations turned out to be a (hostages of foreign) match the specifications with citizen from Beijing missing abroad." The extremist organization announced on one of the websites him about the detention of two hostages, one Norwegian Chinese and the other, demanding ransom in exchange for their release did not specify the amount, did not say when or where the kidnapping of the hostages, a publisher images from several angles each yellow dress and warned the organization in his declaration that "This offer is for a limited period".

He said that the Chinese hostage named Van Geingoa and at the age of 50 years and works as a consultant. He declined Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman to comment on any question about whether the authorities are ready to pay the ransom, saying only that it was "a mechanism to respond to urgent" launched on the subject. She wrote newspaper "China Daily" Official in an editorial Friday that China is "convinced that what I did extremist group (Daash) yet made ​​it an enemy of all", saying: "We wish not to repeat past tragedies" in reference to the hostages killed by the organization in the past. Source: "AFP "

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The Importance of Being Earnest, Part 6: Cecily's confession

Journey back to Victorian London with us for the sixth episode of The Importance of Being Earnest, based on the original comedy by Oscar Wilde.

Algernon has fallen madly in love with Cecily. But when he tells her about his deep emotions, what she says surprises him.

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recordinformation written down about something that has happened

dictationwriting down exactly what someone else says

passionatelywith great feeling or enthusiasm

hopelesslywithout any hope; very badly

wicked
behaving badly

darlinga name used to call someone you love or care about

strugglesomething that is very difficult or requires a lot of effort

bundlea group of things tied together

ribbona long, narrow piece of material used to tie or decorate something

conceitedshowing that you are very proud of yourself

broken off(phrasal verb) ended

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Failed anti Mursi protests in Alexandria

Ahmed Abdel Hafez - Alexandria
Alexandria was calm after the failed attempt to organize Magdy Rady anti-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, demanding to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood in achieving turnout with the exception of a demonstration by tens in front of the Northern Command.
And missed the demonstrations - called by the figures calculated on the liberal trend - any of belonging to political parties and revolutionary movements and coalitions of youth, with the exception of a number of members of the Rally (left), and broke up the demonstrators on Friday evening after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi exchange where the parties throwing stones and shooting was heard before returning again to maintain calm
While Dozens of supporters and supporters of the President of the Republic in the vicinity of a mosque leader Ibrahim after Friday prayers to declare their support and their support for the president called it "battle against the counter-revolution."
Also organized supporters marched around the mosque and garden immortals confrontation him, carried through banners bearing the phrase phrases pro-president, including "No to sabotage the state institutions" and "the people want to support the president" and "Long live Egypt or the world .. not to demolish the state."
And witnessed the march of skirmishes between participants and dozens of opponents of President who came in front of the mosque, two parties exchange impact chants, while supporters chanted "Mercy Mercy Allahu Akbar", replied opponents shout "Down Down ruling Guide".A supporter of President Mohamed Morsi (Island)
Security enhancementsThe security agencies have been lifted a state of emergency in preparation for demonstrations on Friday, and saw the conservative reinforcements intensive security around vital installations and police stations and prisons public, banks and all government departments, while braced the Ministry of Health to secure fields providing 76 ambulances more densely in case of any emergency in the fields.
Said Ahmed Salim one of the coordinators demonstration August 24 / August in Alexandria of the island that the protests are peaceful and far from any coups on the army or the president or other, criticizing what he described as constantly attempts Brotherhood control of the government and inattentiveness President Mursi deliberate so, as he put it.
Criticized Marwa al-Sharif, one of the posts and activist movement a "revolution the against المتأسلمين", the position of the political parties and revolutionary movements and youth coalitions and refusal to participate in the demonstration despite the support for their demands, arguing that the definitive guide to attract the ruling regime to them.
She emphasized that the participants will not remain silent on what they described as "stealing the revolution" by the Muslim Brotherhood and diversion and continue action "Ojuna state" and managed the same mechanism that the previous regime and evading the implementation of the promises President to respect the law and the Constitution.She Brotherhood exercised its advocacy and partisan activities normally (Island)
Against legitimateOn the other hand official said the Administrative Office of the Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria Midhat al-Haddad of the island that demonstrations Friday are attempts explicit coup against legitimacy chosen by the people, and refused to liken the January 25 revolution demonstrations Friday demonstrating that Province Most forces and political parties active in Egypt for these demonstrations in addition to denunciation of the figures for it.
He accused the mourning means "media suspicious" of fomenting the situation and contribute to amplify the call for demonstrations despite the lack of demands and objectives are clear moves for which advocates it, criticizing any steps to lawlessness and coup against the legitimate and infringing on people's property.
The spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria Anas judge that the failure of demonstrations Friday clear evidence the Egyptian people's confidence in President-elect Dr. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood.
He added that although the calls launched more than a month to protest the people decided to boycott those calls and invoking the legitimacy, pointing out that the number of observers and journalists and news agencies were more than numbers demonstrators themselves and momentum of publicity about these demonstrations was exaggerated.
He pointed out that all advocacy and service and political going quite naturally not been affected by these invitations, pointing out that nothing in these demonstrations any member of the Muslim Brotherhood, even if such monitoring and follow-up, and that the rumors about some skirmishes with the Muslim Brotherhood is a pure lie and has no basis Health.

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Tribal elder killed in Sinai after presidential vowed

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    Coordinating committees: the rising death toll in Syria on Tuesday to 246, mostly in Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo
    Activists: clashes between the regular army and the Free Army in solidarity and Rama Road in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus
    Activists: Free Army controlled the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence and the Baath Party and political security in Abu Kamal
    Photos of the island .. Western Mkhtovon in northern Mali are demanding their countries to intervene to save them

Tribal elder killed in Sinai after presidential vowed
Killed a North Sinai elders of activists confront armed Aljamaat, after a shooting incident on a police station in El-Arish, while the president vowed to crush the militants as "traitors" the Sinai Peninsula.

 The security source told the German news agency that unidentified gunmen opened fire heavily on Sheikh Khalaf al Malki and his two sons as they passed in a private car near the ambush in the village of Abu long of Sheikh Zuwaid City, killing Sheikh and one of his sons and wounded another son. Shaykh slain significant contributions to solving the problems of the Sinai community.
 The incident occurred after the departure of Sheikh Malki of a meeting on Sunday evening, which tried to persuade members of his clan from the village border Kharouba between Israel and Egypt not to participate in any armed activities against the Egyptian forces that are wide crackdown to eliminate armed groups.
The ambush is Abu long border in the Eastern Province, near the ambush of the pipe in the Rafah exposed when army troops last week for an attack that killed 16 soldiers.Reinforcements continues to support ongoing operations in Sinai (French)
Reciprocal processesThat came after the sources quoted a security source as saying that the police department Arish came under fire, responded to, but two young Nfmah managed to escape, and after a few hours of the Declaration of Security killing five militants and wounding SF, in the process used the army artillery shells .
The Al-Jazeera correspondent Abdul Basir Hassan raided a house primitive security of the border region, and gunmen killed were inside, and found in possession of a rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons and grenades, in addition to the SUV.
He also said that security arrested three people riding in the SUV weapons and ammunition, pointing to the continued flow of tanks to North Sinai to support continuing operations. The news agency UPI quoted security sources as saying that among those arrested were from Cairo and other Palestinians.
According to Egyptian TV devices have been able to adjust the security store the Sheikh Zuwaid weapons, and Abu فتيت Sinai. They also seized a large quantity of weapons, rockets and guns to one of ambushes in Rafah.Mursi said the ongoing follow-up to the conduct of military operations against the traitors (Island)
Presidential pledgeFor his part, President Mohamed Morsi pledged elimination of militants who attacked army positions and police in the Sinai peninsula.
He said in his speech on the occasion of the celebration of Laylat al-Qadr at Al-Azhar "of punk and overwhelmed and conspiracy and plans and assaulted and killed (...) these traitors will never take us their mercy or pity Nlahakhm until we finish them."
Morsi said that he leads and following the ongoing military operations in the Sinai himself, and the president had visited the North Sinai Governorate twice during one week visit during which he will eat breakfast at the center, which witnessed the killing of Egyptian soldiers.
Egyptian forces used in this campaign warplanes and military helicopters for the first time since the peace agreement with Israel, in addition to the artillery and infantry.
The military operations carried out by the army and security, in response to the killing of 16 soldiers in the attack on a border guard in Rafah.Source: Al Jazeera + k

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Washington calls for the Coordination of reinforcements in Sinai

 Coordinating committees: the rising death toll in Syria on Tuesday to 246, mostly in Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo
    Activists: clashes between the regular army and the Free Army in solidarity and Rama Road in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus
    Activists: Free Army controlled the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence and the Baath Party and political security in Abu Kamal
    Photos of the island .. Western Mkhtovon in northern Mali are demanding their countries to intervene to save them
Washington calls for the Coordination of reinforcements in Sinai
Egyptian armored carriers in El-Arish in Sinai (French)
The United States called Tuesday to coordinate between Cairo and Tel Aviv on the Egyptian military buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, the enhancements of concern to Israel, according to an Israeli official.
The spokeswoman said the U.S. State said her country supports Egypt's efforts to defeat what they called terrorism in Sinai, in reference to the crackdown and the Egyptian military, which began on the eighth of this month in response to the attack by gunmen on a checkpoint in Egyptian Rafah on the border with Gaza, which killing 16 military.
As part of this campaign, which so far resulted in the killing and the arrest of a number of militants, the Egyptian army used attack helicopters for the first time since the signing of the Camp David peace that restrict the deployment of Egyptian military forces in Sinai, also published dozens of armored vehicles, including tanks.
The Egyptian security sources said a few days ago that there was a plan to deploy aircraft and tanks in the Sinai and for the first time since the October War / October 1973.
The U.S. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Washington has encouraged Egypt to ensure that not only security but also the security of its neighbors, and public security in the region.Netanyahu asked Cairo not to send reinforcements without coordination by Maariv (French)
Israeli concernAlmost simultaneously with the State's comments, said an Israeli official who declined to be named said Israel disturbed to enter the Egyptian Sinai armor without coordination.
He told Reuters that Israel wants to have an opinion on the weapons deployed by Egypt in the Sinai, which is considered a demilitarized buffer zone under the Camp David treaty.
And so far has not asked Israel from Egypt to withdraw officially heavy mechanisms of Sinai, but Israeli press reports said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Cairo a few days ago to withdraw those armor.
The Maariv newspaper said that Netanyahu sent to Egypt by the White House message "strongly worded" in this sense, and in which he requested not be published Cairo further military buildup in the Sinai without coordination.
The newspaper quoted an Israeli official as saying that the recent Egyptian reinforcements constitute a breach of the peace treaty.
Egyptian clarificationsIn Cairo, the Egyptian presidency yesterday denied that received no objection recent Israeli reinforcements in the Sinai, Mkzbh so, the Maariv newspaper reported on Netanyahu's message. The presidential spokesman said Yasser Ali of the island "that Israel did not reach Cairo yet been any official objection to the presence of heavy weapons in the Sinai."
He stressed that Egypt has the right to use all means to enforce security in the Sinai as part of the national security of the country.
For his part, the Egyptian military source said told Reuters that security in the Sinai campaign in line with the agreements reached with Israel since after the killing of eight Israelis in a cross-border raid.
Egyptian sources said Monday that the new defense minister General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi visited Sinai to finalize plans for the deployment of more reinforcements and expand the scope of the military operation.Source: Agencies, the island

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Iran displays new weapons

: News: International


    Coordinating committees: the rising death toll in Syria on Tuesday to 246, mostly in Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo
    Activists: clashes between the regular army and the Free Army in solidarity and Rama Road in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus
    Activists: Free Army controlled the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence and the Baath Party and political security in Abu Kamal
    Photos of the island .. Western Mkhtovon in northern Mali are demanding their countries to intervene to save them
Iran displays new weapons
Light short-range missile, which Iran said it developed and introduced a new version of it (Reuters) -
Iran offered on Tuesday upgraded weapons, including short-range missile, and said it would launch new fighter jets in a matter of months.
Was developed weapons during a ceremony on the day of the military industry, attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi.
Another weapon developed before the fourth generation of the rocket, "Fateh 110" which range up to about 300 kilometers, Tehran had announced earlier this month that it had conducted a successful test for the launch of the new model, which he said provider more accurate guidance system.
The news agency Fars reported Vahidi as saying, "This missile from more rockets surface ballistic, which is used as fuel solid, precise and sophisticated over the past decade, and has had a significant role in strengthening the defense capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
He added that his country offered during the celebration of a portable engine at sea more powerful model "Bunyan 4", measuring five thousand horsepower, said agency ISNA news agency that the previous model was per thousand horse power. According to the agency Fars, were also airborne laboratory "Ermita" which is used in the field of aviation.
Fighter jetsThe Iranian defense minister to the Defense Ministry will launch during the current Iranian year - which began on March 20 / March - new fighter jets. Vahidi said "we are going to use a new generation of aircraft," he said, adding that his country plans to manufacture drones and new submarines over the next year.
Military experts have questioned what Iran declares its sophisticated weapons, especially with regard to its missile program, and they say تهول capabilities of the program.
He said a missile defense expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Michael Aleman missile "Fateh 110" his guidance and control system is polished works during landing. "It seems that the Fateh 110 missile systems lacks infrastructure necessary to achieve the final guidance."
The disclosure of Iran's new and improved weapons at a time when Israel does not rule out military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities if Tehran does not dissipate Western fears about the development of technology to produce nuclear weapons.

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250 people and offers free military

Tuesday killed nearly 250 Syria, mostly in the town of Sham Medmah Rural Damascus, Daraa, Aleppo and Deir al-Zour, in one of the worst spasms of violence since the start of the revolution, while free army announced that it had made gains large field in the provinces of Aleppo and Deir al-Zour.
And counted Local Coordination Committees 246 people, including 70 executed by firing squad in the town of Sham Medmah Rural Damascus suffered over the last few days of bombardment by air and land without interruption before regular army Ikthmha.
According to activists, a number of victims in Almedmah killed slaughtered and burned to death. She said coordinating committees The total death toll in Damascus and its countryside reached 104 deaths, while killing 42 in Aleppo, and 32 in Daraa, 12 in Deir al-Zour, and 10 in Homs, 5 in Idlib, 2 in Latakia.
Bombing victimsThe Al-Jazeera correspondent in Aleppo Mazen Ibrahim said the rocket and artillery attack on Tuesday a number of districts of Aleppo, controlled by the army free, and targeted as well as towns in the countryside town, including Mare `Tel lifted I'izaz, in an attempt to cut off supplies coming to the fighters army free from the north.
And pay bombing Aleppo and Idlib Syrian neighboring 2500 to transit to Turkey within 24 hours, according to Turkish sources, Syria.Fell dead a few days ago by the shelling on the neighborhood through the door in Aleppo (French)
20 civilians were killed at once in an air raid on citizens gathered in front of a bakery in a suburb of Aleppo, according to the General Authority of the Syrian Revolution.
The activists said the dead and wounded were killed in helicopter shelling of houses Hanano and Alsakhur Sheikh Khader and through the door and logo, all in the eastern part of the city.
Included bombing Tuesday neighborhoods Alasali and solidarity and foot in the capital Damascus where it activates the Free Army. Also included towns in Damascus including Zablatani Hmouria and Sbeineh, and shield the city and towns in the countryside, including the battalion and Takes and Sahem in the Golan Heights and share Naemeh where the person was killed, at least, by the coordinating committees.
The bombing targeted the helicopters and guns also ancient neighborhoods Homs, and Abu Kamal in Deir al-Zour, which in turn came under shelling from the regular army killing three people, according to activists.
Activists spoke of artillery shelling on villages Alaido and castle العوينة and appointed Alashra and pipes Brive Lattakia province, not far from the border with Turkey, and said that the shelling ignited fires in the Mount Kurds.
He added that the aim of sabotage bombing roads used by displaced people to the camps on the Turkish side. According to activists, the aerial bombardment and ground also included the rural province of Idlib, killing at least five people yesterday.Free Army fighters approached the center of Aleppo (Reuters)
Clashes and gainsField also, swept regular clashes between the two armies and free yesterday many parts of Syria. The Free Syrian Army yesterday evening he took over the headquarters of Air Force Intelligence and the Political Security and the Baath Party in Abu Kamal (120 km southeast of Deir al-Zour) after two days of fighting.
He said one of the leaders of the free army in the region The Boukamal become completely under their control, but they have to seize military intelligence complex and the airport outside the city.
The control of the Abu Kamal narrow system supply lines from Iraq, and in return facilitate supplies to the army free, according to one of the field commanders.
In Aleppo, declared the military leader of the rebels, Colonel Abdul-Jabbar Aqidi they are now control about two-thirds of the city of Aleppo after they took on new neighborhoods. The Al-Jazeera correspondent in Aleppo Mazen Ibrahim Free Army fighters have come at a distance of approximately 200 meters from the yard Saadallah Jabri city center.
He added that the Free Army managed to arrived neighborhoods - controlled - each other, adding that the regular army could not yet repel offer Free Army. Syrian television, however, said that the regular army "cleansed" several neighborhoods in Aleppo who called them terrorists and mercenaries, and arrested a large number of them.
And recorded yesterday regular clashes between the two armies and free in the neighborhood solidarity and Rama Road in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, and other clashes took place in the countryside of civilian. In Daraa, free military said it had carried out a tactical withdrawal from the town of mobility after running out of ammunition.

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Refused again to demonstrate against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Popular Front refused to support a civil state in Egypt on Tuesday to participate in the demonstrations supposed to organize next Friday, under the title "Million Drop the Muslim Brotherhood," arguing that the call for demonstrations issued by the people they question marks.
 The general coordinator of the Front Mahmoud Abdul Rahim - in a statement - refusing to participate in the demonstrations August 24 / this August, saying that the call for demonstrations issued who "people have question marks, and not replace credibility, and have nothing to do with the democratic struggle and revolutionary."
And disclosed Abdul Rahim for his conviction of the need to postpone the demonstration against the Muslim Brotherhood and the President of the Republic Mohamed Morsi until the expiration of the Hundred Days made by the President himself. He stressed the need to address the object-oriented and acceptable revolutionary savior, and not calculated on the faces of counter-revolution if launching any calls.
Mercy President vowed to disband five urgent problems are crises traffic, security, and bread, and hygiene, and energy, at the end of day one hundred of his presidency officially.
He said Abdul Rahim that "although we do not support this call and we doubt objectives true, but at the same time support the right of all Egyptians - regardless of their background - to peaceful protest, which should not be wasted under any pretext," stressing "the importance of standing against the Brotherhood and practices aimed at to Ojuna state institutions. "
The MP in the Egyptian People's Assembly dissolved Mohammed Abu Hamed and media suspended his Tawfiq Okasha and others called for demonstrations next Friday against "Brotherhood attempts to impose its hegemony on the Egyptian state institutions through exclusionary approach excludes the majority of Egyptians to participate in shaping the future of their country."
But the invitations have not received wide acceptance among the forces and revolutionary movements and various political, the fact that Mercy did not complete two months in office, in addition to taking office illegally through free elections

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Two U.S. soldiers killed civilians in Afghanistan

Killed four civilians and wounded nine others in addition to the three elements of the police following a bomb blast at a market on Saturday morning in western Afghanistan. While an Afghan policeman killed two American soldiers yesterday.

He said regional police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi said militants had planted the bomb near the headquarters of the municipality Shindand district of Herat.

The spokesman pointed out that the market was crowded with people who came to buy their needs for Eid al-Fitr.

The Afghan policeman was killed on Friday, two U.S. soldiers in Farah province in western Afghanistan, as announced by the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF).

The force said that officials were investigating the circumstances of the incident, which is believed to be a Bomber Taliban militants fighting the government there and the Western countries supporting them.

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