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Breaking News Sun, 5 Sep 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday.
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Israeli settlement  
Netanyahu's chance to make amends
| Direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations started last week in Washington. The beginning of the direct peace talks was announced at a White House ceremony hosted by US President Barack Obama and... (photo: AP / Menahem Kahana, Pool)
Gulf News
A U.S. army helicopter flies past the minaret of the 14th of Ramadan mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007. The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, following a Sept. 16 shooting incident involving Blackwater USA guards that left 17 Iraqi civilians
Defence   Human Rights   Iraq   Photos   Wikipedia: Blackwater Worldwide  
Mercenaries are operating with impunity
| When President Barack Obama announced that the majority of US troops were leaving Iraq and that only 50,000 troops would stay "to advise and assist" Iraqi security and army forces, he made... (photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovi)
Gulf News
Muslim worshippers offer prayers outside Kashmir's grand mosque (Jamia Masjid) during Jumat-ul-Vida in Srinagar September 3, 2010. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims thronged the mosques and shrines to offer special prayers on Jumat-ul-Vida, the last and concluding Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Muslims across India offer prayers on last Friday of Ramadan
| Lucknow/Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 3 (ANI): Muslims across India gathered in huge numbers at various mosques to offer the 'Alvida Namaz' on the occasion of the last 'Jumma' of the fasting month ... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar) Newstrack India
India   Photos   Religion   Society   Wikipedia: Islamic Prayer  
Palestinian inspects the rubble  of an abandoned house that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip August 18, 2010. Israel carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after two soldiers were wounded in a mortar bomb attack by militants, the Hamas Islamist group and Palestinian witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The Israeli military had no immediate comment. (Photo By Ahmed Deeb/ WN) Peace talks a test of Netanyahu
| Editor's note: Michele Dunne is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin. A former Middle East specialist at the Whit... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) CNN
Mideast   Peace   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Peace process in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict  
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, July 10, 2010. Netanyahu and Abbas to Begin Direct Mideast Peace Talks
| WASHINGTON — The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to open direct peace negotiations Thursday after committing to work to end the conflict that has endured fo... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) Herald Tribune
Abbas   Netanyahu   Peace   Photos   Talks  
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 1, 20010, after meeting with the BP Oil Spill Commission co-chairs. Obama calls French President, Saudi King on Middle East
Washington: US President Barack Obama has called French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Saudi King Abdullah to discuss with them the crucial direct talks between Israeli an... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Zeenews
Photos   Politics   Us   Washington   Wikipedia : Barack Obama  
An aerial view of a heavy-water production plant, which went into operation despite U.N. demands that Iran roll back its nuclear program, in the central Iranian town of Arak, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006. Japan imposes additional sanctions on Iran
| Tokyo, Sep 3 (Reuters) Japan slapped additional sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme today, following the United | States in pressuring Tehran despite ... (photo: AP / ISNA, Arash Khamoushi) The Siasat Daily
Iran   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, right, addresses his UMP party (Union for a Popular Movement) members, in Paris, Saturday, May 13, 2006. Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama called his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday to thank him for supporting current Middle East peace efforts, the White Hou... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon) Khaleej Times
France   Photos   Politics   Washington   Wikipedia :Nicolas Sarkozy  
A common "Blackberry" PDA is seen displaying Dutch-based company Tele Atlas' digital maps,Thursday, July 5, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan. UN official: BlackBerry data requests legitimate
| Chief of telecom agency says private sector must work with governments | Friday, September 03, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | LONDON: The chief of the UN’s telecommu... (photo: AP / Wally Santana) Daily Star Lebanon
Governments   Photos   Security   Technology   UN  
 A reactor building of Iran´s Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005. Iran and Ru Iran threat may spur Middle East peace talks
| Washington: As US President Barack Obama convenes the first direct Middle East peace talks in 20 months, the question many observers here and in the region are asking i... (photo: AP Photo) Gulf News
Iran   Mideast   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
A U.S. soldier of Charlie Company 1-15 Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat team, 3rd Infantry Division, passes next to a wall painted with the Iraqi flag during a routine patrol in Salman Pak, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 1, 200 The risks of withdrawal loom
| Entering a war is easy; getting out of it is the hard part. That axiom is particularly true for the United States today, as it muddles through three wars — two of... (photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris) Gulf News
Defence   Iraq   Photos   US   Wikipedia: 2003 invasion of Iraq  
People sit before graffiti that read "Long live Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar," in Pakistan's border town of Chaman at the Afghan border on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. These fresh graffiti are seen in border towns supporting religious candidates take part in the coming general elections. The degree zero of culture
|      Sep 3, 2010 LIFE IN TALIBANISTAN, Part 2 | The degree zero of culture | By Pepe Escobar | This is the second article in a three-part report. | ... (photo: AP Photo / Shah Khalid) Asia Times
Afghanistan   Culture   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: Taliban  
Oil Business
At 50, Opec still dominates
Iran stores abundant fuel oil supply on VLCCs
It Doesn't Have to Get Ugly
IEA Predicts Greater Reliance on OPEC Oil
OPEC Vienna Oct. 2006
IEA Predicts Greater Reliance on OPEC Oil
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GCC Takaful market to grow 10pc
Worldview: Peace talks unlikely to succeed
Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
Mining bonanza rockets property prices in remote towns
Camels and bedouin village camp in the desert of Dubai, UAE, November 2007
Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
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Politics Education
Too soon to gauge cost of war
The elephant in the room
Five myths about mosques in America
Letters: Sep. 5
Palestinian inspects the rubble  of an abandoned house that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip August 18, 2010. Israel carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after two soldiers were wounded in a mortar bomb attack by militants, the Hamas Islamist group and Palestinian witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The Israeli military had no immediate comment. (Photo By Ahmed Deeb/ WN)
Peace talks a test of Netanyahu
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School bus crushes two kids in Nerul; 3-yr-old killed
Arab world needs education in new media
Arab world needs education in new media
'The Great Brain Race': Globalization alters higher
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Health Terrorism
Pakistan's youth giving up Islam?
YEMEN: Chewing your way to an early death
Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
Crackdown on illegal hospitality services
Camels and bedouin village camp in the desert of Dubai, UAE, November 2007
Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
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Obama's hurried exit from Iraq is a travesty of morality
Twelve killed in suicide assault on Iraq army base
Suspense Sunday, a book about oil, Islam, and power, review
Suicide attack kills 12 at Baghdad Army complex
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates walks to a press conference with President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2010.
Afghan officials closer to talks with insurgents
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