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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
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
| LONDON (Reuters) - Their place in history assured, are al Qaeda's ageing leaders content merely to propagate their ideology and tactics among like-minded militant groups? Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ay... (photo: AP / Courtesy of Al-Jazeera via APTN, File) The Star
Al Qaida   Intelligence   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Al-Qaeda  
Gen. David Petraeus talks during the Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., Monday, April 27, 2009. NATO chief condemns U.S. church's plans to burn Koran
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of NATO on Tuesday condemned a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying it was disrespectful and cou... (photo: AP / Orlin Wagner) The Star
Defence   Islam   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Dove World Outreach Center  
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A child of road construction workers sits near her parent's work site, in Gurgaon, India, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before reaching the age of 5, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, UNICEF said in its annual report, released Tuesda UNICEF to boost aid efficiency by targeting poorest
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. children's foundation UNICEF plans to make the poorest and most remote regions of needy nations top priority for aid, an approach it... (photo: AP / Gurinder Osan) The Star
Aid   Photos   Poverty   Unicef   Wikipedia: UNICEF  
The windows on the top story of the Liberty Street building where Russell Simmons lives are seen Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, in New York. Simmons is making his support for a proposed mosque near ground zero  crystal clear through the windows of his apartment overlooking the World Trade Center site. The first six windows use the symbols of world religions to spell out "coexist," starting with an Islamic star and crescent for the "C" and finishing with a Christian cross for the "T." Shame on US, Jews and the ADL
| Amidst the hysteria over the mosque at Ground Zero the hate-mongers have described the name "Cordoba House" as a reference to Muslim designs to attack western... (photo: AP / Mary Altaffer) Gulf News
Islam   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Park51  
An Iraqi man and his wife watch U.S. President Barack Obama's televised speech in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Turning Back Thousands of Pages on the U.S.-Iraq War
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | In crediting then-President George W. Bush and his 2007 troop surge strategy for helping to win the U.S.-Iraq War... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim) WorldNews.com
Iraq   Photos   US   War   Wikipedia: Iraq War  
Bread - Food - Flour - Commodity Wheat price spike raises food insecurity: UN expert
  By Laura MacInnis, Reuters September 7, 2010 12:02 PM        Displaced Pakistani residents fight over a bag of aid in Bannay Wala on September 7, 2010. The world m... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) National Post
Food   Photos   Price   Wheat   Wikipedia: Wheat  
 Afghanistan U.S. expects to spend big in Afghanistan for years
| WASHINGTON: The U.S. government's financial commitment to Afghanistan is likely to linger and reach into the billions long after it pulls combat troops from the country... (photo: WN / Denise Yong) Ohio
Afghanistan   Financial   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Afghanistan  
Bread - Wheat Product Wheat price spike raises food insecurity-UN expert
* U.N. expert blames trader speculation for costlier food * Floods in Pakistan, drought in Syria also strain supplies (Adds comments on Syria hunger, Mozambique on bread ... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba) The Guardian
Bread   Imports   Photos   Prices   Wikipedia: Wheat  
Interior view of the new mosque. The Islamic prophet Muhammad(The First Imam)* Imam Malik[citation needed] Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Associated Press Writer | NEW YORK (AP) - An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero ... (photo: Creative Commons / Swerveut) Wtop
Community   Imam   Islamic   Mosque   Photos  
Emirates Airline Flight Data Recorder Found Amid UPS Wreckage
| Filed at 7:20 a.m. ET | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Investigators at the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane recovered the flight data recorder Tuesday as experts see... (photo: GFDL / Imre Solt) The New York Times
Data   Emirates   Flight   Photos   UPS  
Iraq Saudi Arabia
Iraqi soldier fires on American troops in northern Iraq, kil
Iraq's Looted Treasures in a Revolving Door
Iraq Parliament fails to resolve impasse six months on
Hundreds of looted artefacts returned to Iraq
Gen. David Petraeus talks during the Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., Monday, April 27, 2009.
NATO chief condemns U.S. church's plans to burn Koran
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Arabs fume over sex pill ad
Abbas asks Washington to help resolve dispute over settlemen
Gulf states ‘welcome’ Mideast peace talks relaunch
Halal food numbers look tasty
Kashmiri Muslim shoppers throng an outdoor market ahead of the Muslim religious festival of Eid-ul-Fitr the summer capital of indian kashmir  in Srinagar,  05, September 2010. Eid-ul-Fitr is a religious festival of Muslims, which marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period.
Is this the Eid that Kashmir wants?
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Syria Kuwait
Abbas asks Washington to help resolve dispute over settlemen
Hizbullah, Syria welcome Hariri's change of heart on acc
Blair's book hits a nerve in Arab world
Syria returns as Hariri drops accusation
Bread - Food - Flour - Commodity
Wheat price spike raises food insecurity: UN expert
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Abbas asks Washington to help resolve dispute over settlemen
Gulf states ‘welcome’ Mideast peace talks relaunch
UAE trounces Kuwait 3-0 in international friendly
GCC slams terror plot in Bahrain
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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UAE Egypt
Manager blames bank in bounced cheque case
Time-lapse movie looks back at a fantastic journey
Dubai Metro has served 30m passengers
Abu Dhabi to boost firms investing abroad
Emirates Airline
Flight Data Recorder Found Amid UPS Wreckage
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Abbas asks Washington to help resolve dispute over settlemen
Egyptian officials charged with negligence in Van Gogh case
Baradei calls for Egypt election boycott - report
Halal food numbers look tasty
An Iraqi man and his wife watch U.S. President Barack Obama's televised speech in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010.
Turning Back Thousands of Pages on the U.S.-Iraq War
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Jordan Iran
Palestine blasts Ahmadinejad for criticizing Middle East pea
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
 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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World powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
Europe can still change Mediterranean thinking
EU calls ‘barbaric’ plans to stone Iranian woman
Powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
 Technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Iran inaugurated two minor plants at its Bushehr nuclear reactor on Tuesday, showing
Powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
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