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The final official figures for the province, obtained by IPS from a U.S. official in Mosul, actually have the constitution being rejected by a fairly wide margin, but less than the two-thirds majority required to defeat it outright. Both the initial figures and the new vote totals raise serious questions …

HUDSON HOU/daily bruin Paul Benjamin receives various responses from people when he tells them of his ethnicity. Along with other Assyrian students, Benjamin helped put together the Assyrian Students Association to help spread the word about their heritage.   By Lindsey MorganDAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTORlmorgan@media.ucla.eduWhen he tells people he is Assyrian, …

Some 10,000 Assyrian-Chaldeans live in Paris. The monument is near a similar to the so-called Armenian genocide. Francois Pupponi, the socialist mayor of Paris? Sarcelles district, said in a dedication speech that the monument was meant to show deep sympathy for the Assyrian-Chaldean people who died 1915. He also added …

Le samedi 15 octobre, au stade Nelson Mandela, rue Paul Langevin ? Sarcelles (banlieue de Paris), a en effet ?t? inaugur?e en toute discr?tion une st?le “? la m?moire des victimes du g?nocide assyro-chald?en de 1915 perp?tr? sous l?Empire ottoman”. Cette inauguration a eu lieu en pr?sence de Fran?ois Pupponi, …

Ghazi Kanaan was appointed interior minister in a major cabinet reshuffle in October 2004.   Before joining the government, he was head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon.   The 63-year-old brigadier-general was born in the coastal governorate of Lattakia in 1942. He graduated from military college in 1965 and rose …

Kanaan (r) had a long and intimate connection with Lebanon By Roger Hardy BBC Middle East analyst   The official Syrian News Agency announced Ghazi Kanaan’s suicide without attempting to explain it. It said cryptically that the authorities were carrying out the necessary investigation. But, given Mr Kanaan’s long and …

Interview with Syrian Interior Minister Major General Ghazi Kanaan given to Voice of Lebanon correspondent Warda Zamel on 12 October, hours before he was found dead in his office, having apparently committed suicide. Presenter: Syrian Interior Minister Maj-Gen Ghazi Kanaan, in this cloudy climate that prevails over the two fraternal …

Kanaan (left) was Syria‘s top official in Lebanon for years Syria’s Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan has committed suicide, the official news agency in Damascus says. He was reportedly questioned by a UN investigator last month over the murder of ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. For many years Kanaan was Syria‘s powerful …

  The US says Mr Kanaan ensured Syria dominated Lebanese politicsThe US has frozen the financial assets of Syria’s interior minister and its head of intelligence for Lebanon, saying they aided terrorism in Lebanon. Washington also said Americans were now forbidden from doing business with Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan and …