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Breaking News Tue, 7 Sep 2010
A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Working more and living less" during the demonstration, Tuesday Sept.7, 2010 in Paris. French unions challenged unpopular President Nicolas Sarkozy with a major nationwide strike over plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, cutting service on trains, planes, buses and subways.
France   Labor   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy  
French unions test Sarkozy in massive pensions strike
| Wednesday, September 08, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Brian Love | Reuters | PARIS: French trade unions said 2.5 million people took to the streets on Tuesday to protest over pension reforms that Pre... (photo: AP / Christophe Ena)
Daily Star Lebanon
A man injured by an explosion in Kohat is treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city killing many people and leaving scores of people injured, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
Pakistan   Photos   Taliban   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan  
Car bomb kills 20 in Pakistan after Taliban threat
| KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, in another blow for a country grappl... (photo: AP / Mohammad Iqbal)
The Star
Sunni leader Saad Hariri and leader of the parliamentary majority speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Speaking for the first time since he was besieged in his residence in Beirut's Muslim sector protected by Lebanese troops, Hariri said he supports canceling the Cabinet decisions that sparked clashes in the country "to save Lebanon Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake
| BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press Writer= BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's prime minister said he was wrong to accuse Syria of involvement in the 2005 assassination of his father, a major turnaround for a po... (photo: AP / Ahmad Omar) The Guardian
Lebanon   Photos   Politics   Syria   Wikipedia: Rafic Hariri  
a fresh water in a river - India US company plans to ship fresh water from Alaska to India
| S2C Global Systems is promising tanker deliveries but high cost might make it just a pipe dream An Indian farmer looks towards the sky, while standing amidst his drought-stricken crop. US company S2... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) The Guardian
Alaska   India   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Alaska  
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves as he arrives at the Economic and Financial forum for the Mediterranean, in Milan, Italy, Monday, July 20 2009. Mubarak concerned over 'new dangers' in Gulf
| Cairo, September 06: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday he was concerned about "new dangers" in the Gulf, in an apparent allusion to Iran, whose nuclear ambit... (photo: AP / Luca Bruno) The Siasat Daily
Allusion   Gulf   Mubarak   Nuclear   Photos  
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looks on during his meeting with Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not pictured, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Mubarak concerned over 'new dangers' in the Gulf
CAIRO ' Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Sunday he was concerned about 'new dangers' in the Gulf, in an apparent allusion to Iran, whose nuclear ambitions concern... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) Khaleej Times
Egypt   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
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
| Once upon a time in Baghdad, fifty years ago and exactly on September 14, 1960, the five developing countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela met and ... (photo: AP / Hasan Jamali) Gulf News
Markets   OPEC   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: OPEC  
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  
The Union Home Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram- India- Politics Saffron Terror: Cidambaram calls a spade a spade
INDIA IS inflicted with a galore of terrors - Naxalite terror, Islamic terror and Hindu terror etc. ‘Islamic terror’ the most prominent among these was not &l... (photo: PIB of India) Merinews
Hindu   India   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: P. Chidambaram  
PIA Boeing 747, We cannot afford to shun Pakistan
| On a recent Pakistan International Airlines flight from Karachi to Lahore, a local – and somewhat revealing – fashion show played out on the TV screens. Among those... (photo: Public Domain / Denniss) The Guardian
Airlines   Pakistan   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia:Pakistan International Airlines  
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... (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 Midd... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) CNN
Mideast   Peace   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Peace process in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict  
Oil Business
Obama: Rebuild America by slashing oil tax breaks
Saudi needs younger faces to avoid gerontocracy
Saudi needs younger faces to avoid gerontocracy
Iran: self-sufficiency achieved in petrol production
Gasoline - Oil Prices
Oil slips as US driving season ends
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Halal food numbers look tasty
Gulf Navigation expands chemical carriers fleet
UAE the most connected nation in the Arab world
Dubai still the top destination for Mena investors
Gasoline - Oil Prices
Oil slips as US driving season ends
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Politics Education
Abbas asks Washington to help resolve dispute over settlemen
Saad Hariri, or the son also compromises
GCC ministers want to see terror suspects deported
9-11 anniversary: Clinton's non-action contributed to te
Sunni leader Saad Hariri and leader of the parliamentary majority speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Speaking for the first time since he was besieged in his residence in Beirut's Muslim sector protected by Lebanese troops, Hariri said he supports canceling the Cabinet decisions that sparked clashes in the country "to save Lebanon
Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake
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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
Saudi needs younger faces to avoid gerontocracy
Saudi needs younger faces to avoid gerontocracy
Pilgrims bid farewell to Ramadan
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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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Endless War Isn't The Answer
World
Pressure mounts in U.S. against Koran-burning plan
US church vows Koran burning will go on despite warnings
Rumors of Osama bin Laden's death have been greatly exaggerated, again. The latest tantalizing lead on the al-Qaida leader (shown here with is top lieutenant, Ayman Al-Zawahri in an image taken from a videotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera on Oct. 5, 2001) came Saturday, when a French newspaper reported on a leaked document from the French government, asserting that a Saudi source said the Saudi government believed the 52-year-old terror leader had perished of typhoid last month. Officials in the United States and other countries have since rushed to say there's no evidence to substantiate the report
Arrests stir worry about Qaeda plots in West
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