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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
Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. At Least 7 Dead in Baghdad Attack
| BAGHDAD — Insurgents continued a relentless assault on Iraq’s military and security forces on Sunday, launching a coordinated attack on one of the main command centers in Baghdad that pu... (photo: AP) The New York Times
Iraq   Photos   US   Violence   Wikipedia: 2003 invasion of Iraq  
An Afghan man pushes his cart carrying used gym shoes for sale past election posters of parliamentarian candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Taleban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election
KABUL - Afghanistan's Taleban said on Sunday they would attempt to disrupt elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against the poll by the hardline Islam... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq) Khaleej Times
Afghanistan   Elections   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
Top Stories
Apple iPhone SCA launches a new service for iPhone, iPad users
ABU DHABI - As part of its efforts to improve the e-services rendered to investors, dealers, partners and researchers, the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba) Khaleej Times
Application   Emirates   Photos   Securities   Wikipedia: iPhone  
In this image made from TV footage, Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers his speech at an international conference on Afghanistan's future in Kabul on Tuesday July 20, 2010. NATO service member killed in Afghan fighting
| KABUL, Afghanistan - A coalition service member was killed in fighting in Afghanistan's turbulent south Sunday, one day after President Hamid Karzai moved a step closer... (photo: AP / RTV via APTN) Herald Tribune
Afghanistan   Fighting   Karzai   Nato   Photos  
Camels and bedouin village camp in the desert of Dubai, UAE, November 2007 Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
0 0 Get Quote | Symbol Lookup | (09-05) 04:00 PDT Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- | The camels know the drill by heart. | Just after dawn, they file on their own - always ... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis) San Fransisco Chronicle
Camel   Dairy   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Camel  
British Airways A319-100 in Munich British Airways CEO eyes India after Iberia merger
| (FT) -- A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be "very interested" in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a... (photo: GFDL / User:My name) CNN
British   Iberia   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia:British Airways  
Algeria's head coach Rabah Saadane looks on during their African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match against Ivory Coast in Cabinda, Angola, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. Saadane quits as Algeria coach
Algiers: Algeria coach Rabah Saadane has stepped dowm after a 1-1 draw with Tanzania in an African Nations Cup qualifier on Friday, the Algerian Football Federation said ... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic) Zeenews
Africa   Photos   Sport   Tanzania  
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
| KABUL, Afghanistan - In a further step toward reconciling with insurgents, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that he will soon name the members of a council tasked ... (photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison) The Boston Globe
Afghanistan   Peace   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: Taliban  
Irish police clash with protesters as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair  arrived for a public book signing at the Eason book store, in Dublin, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 Shoes, eggs hurled at Tony Blair in Dublin
| DUBLIN (AP) - Protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more peop... (photo: AP / Peter Morrison) The Star
Dublin   Photos   Protests   Tony Blair   Wikipedia: A Journey  
  Nigerian peacekeepers with the United Nations and African Union mission to Darfur, known as UNAMID, display their newly-painted "blue helmets" after they transferred from the AU to the U.N. in Dureij Darfur Sudan, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. The UNAMID mission started in January to try to end five years of fighting in the remote western Sudanese regio UN: Dozens dead in Sudan clashes
| Violent clashes in Sudan's Darfur region have left more than 40 people dead this week, according to international peacekeepers. | The joint United Nations-African ... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou) Al Jazeera
Darfur   Photos   UN   Violence   Wikipedia: War in Darfur  
Iraq Saudi Arabia
Iraq cuts oil product supplies to Kurdish region
At 50, Opec still dominates
Obama's hurried exit from Iraq is a travesty of morality
Mercenaries are operating with impunity
Employees of Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Persian Gulf island's national oil company, crank on a pipeline valve Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oilfields. Growing evidence of a severe global economic slowdown drove oil prices below $62 a barrel Monday as investors brushed off a sizeable OPEC output
At 50, Opec still dominates
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At 50, Opec still dominates
Too soon to gauge cost of war
Pakistan flood aid pledged, country by country
Saudi telecom shuts websites violating Fatwa edict
Employees of Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Persian Gulf island's national oil company, crank on a pipeline valve Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oilfields. Growing evidence of a severe global economic slowdown drove oil prices below $62 a barrel Monday as investors brushed off a sizeable OPEC output
At 50, Opec still dominates
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Syria Kuwait
Taboo-breaking Syrian soap causes Ramadan stir
Syria moves to curb influence of Muslim conservatives
Syria moves to curb influence of Muslim conservatives
Syria Moves to Curb Influence of Muslim Conservatives
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
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Obama's hurried exit from Iraq is a travesty of morality
Bahrain says Shia figures plotted overthrow
Air India to scrap Sharjah-Kochi service, 200 other Gulf fli
Kuwait records 720 conversions to Islam
More Middle East residents plan to travel
More Middle East residents plan to travel
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UAE Egypt
Microsoft to launch Kinect in the UAE in November
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange index rises
Tharoors in Dubai
UAE's Futtaim, QIB, Aqar in $1.6 bln Qatar project
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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Netanyahu's chance to make amends
Dana Gas discovers new reserve in Egypt
Progress of Middle East peace talks 'a surprise'
Anthony McDermott obituary
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.
Netanyahu's chance to make amends
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Jordan Iran
Skepticism abounds in Middle East after peace talks 'sho
Nude Art Mag Riles Middle East
Timely talks: Obama opens his push for a Middle East accord
Iran threat may spur Middle East peace talks
 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
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Taliban paid bounties for kills
Vatican decries stoning as brutal punishment, hints at help
Stoning in Iran adultery case "brutal": Vatican
Iran stoning woman 'to be lashed over photograph'
A visitor looks at a wall of photos at the exibition of some of the 76,000 people deported from France to Nazi death camps in WWII, at the Holocaust memorial in central Paris' jewish quarter Wednesday Jan 19, 2005. The renovated Holocaust memorial will be inaugurated by French President Chirac on Jan.
Top Iran cleric rejects Holocaust as 'superstition'
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