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• Morsi bids to unite Palestinian factions - The National

  "The Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, turned his focus to foreign policy yesterday as he sought to energise stalled reconciliation efforts between the rival Palestinian factions. He met Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah chairman and Palestinian Authority president, in Cairo before holding talks with the Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal."

  tags: morsi egypt palestine gaza westbank hamas abbas israel

• Abu Dhabi's TAQA signs US wind power deal - Energy - ArabianBusiness.com

  "Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, also known as TAQA, said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy a 50 percent interest in a wind power project in the United States. The company said it has acquired the interest in the 205.5 megawatt Lakefield wind project located in Minnesota from a subsidiary of France-based utility Electricite de France SA (EDF) but did not disclose the value of the deal."

  tags: taqa renewableenergy alternativeenergy gcc uae abudhabi investment

• Spiritual but not religious more likely to face mental health issues, use drugs

  "Consider yourself spiritual but not religious? Well, you’re more likely to develop a mental disorder, become dependent on drugs, and have eating disorders, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. It seems like common sense that those who’d describe themselves as spiritual would be more likely to use drugs. But the difference is quite high. Thirty percent of those who identified as spiritual said they had used drugs, almost double the 16 percent of religious people who reported drug use. Spiritual people are also 24 percent more likely to have generalized anxiety disorder, according to the lead author of the study, reports CNN. "

  tags: random health spirituality statistics religion

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