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Chinese technicians man drilling equipment on an oil rig in Paloich, South Sudan. Militants apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote work site in the volatile South Kordofan region of neighboring Sudan, and Sudanese forces were increasing security for Chinese projects and personnel there, China said Sunday.
Business   China   Khartoum   Photos   Wikipedia: Sudan  
Kidnapped Chinese workers freed in Sudan oil state
| KHARTOUM/BEIJING (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels released 29 Chinese workers on Tuesday, ten days after kidnapping them in the main oil-producing state of South Kordofan where the army has been fighting... (photo: AP / Pete Muller)
The Star
In this file photo taken on March 17, 2007, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, right, raise their linked arms as they move through the crowd at a special session of parliament in Gaza City.
Fatah   Hamas   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: FatahHamas conflict  
Mahmoud Abbas's choice 'peace or Hamas'
| ISRAEL has warned that a new agreement between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas amounts to a choice by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to abandon the peace process. | The warning come... (photo: AP / Hatem Moussa)
The Australian
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves from his airplane before departing to Ecuador at the Jose Marti international airport in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Iran parliament summons President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran's parliament has summoned the president for questioning for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a long list of questions about the state of the... (photo: AP / Javier Galeano) BBC News
Iran   Mideast   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  
110512-F-CU844-220       Army Sgt. 1st Class Kyle Silvernale yells commands to his troops during air assault training in Alaskas Chugach Mountain Range on May 12, 2011.  Silvernale is assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment.  DoD photo by Senior Airman Christopher Gross, U.S. Air Force.  (Released) Admiral: Special ops to streamline in Afghan war
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here By PAULINE JELINEK - Associated Press By PAULINE JELINEK Tags: | WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. military commander will visit Pa... (photo: US DoD / enior Airman Christopher Gross, U.S. Air Force) The News & Observer
Mideast   Photos   Police   War   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
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President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Washington. Obama says lawmakers must remember that the standoff over the cuts is not about politics: He says: "This is about the American people." Obamas set to host dinnerin honor of Iraq veterans
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will host a Feb. 29 dinner at the White House honoring members of the armed forces who served in Ir... (photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari) Tulsa World
Iraq   Obama   Photos   President   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic National Committee event, Monday, May 16, 2011, in Washington. Gingrich sees Egypt as Obama version of Iran hostage crisis
| MINNEAPOLIS (US) - White House hopeful Newt Gingrich likened Cairo's apparent plans to put 19 Americans on trial over charges of illegal funding of aid groups to the Ir... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster) Middle East Online
Government   Iran   Obama   Photos   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
In this image made by the British Prison Service and aired by Arabic TV channels shows Abu Qatada who makes a televised appeal from Belmarsh high security prison, in London calling for the release of hostage British Norman Kember in Iraq. British outrage as radical cleric gets bail
| BRITAIN'S Home Office has clashed openly with judges after a court decision to free on bail the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who is accused of posing a grave thr... (photo: AP / H.M. Prison Service) Sydney Morning Herald
Al Qaida   Crime   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: Abu Qatada  
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign rally at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Conservatives don't like Romney
| Mitt Romney has been driving conservatives crazy since he began running for the White House, but after winning the Florida primary last week, he elevated that insanity ... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) Al Jazeera
Election   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012  
A Syrian forces tank moves along a road during clashes with the Syrian army defectors, in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Homs Attack: Is This Syria's Benghazi Moment?
| A damaged armoured military vehicle is pictured after clashes in Homs | Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor Much analysis has been written comparing the Syrian town of... (photo: AP) Skynews
Mideast   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
A homeless man sleeps near a shuttered store as a pedestrian looks on, near Athens' main Syntagma Square, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Greek workers strike over public job cuts
| Workers in Greece are staging a 24-hour general strike in protest over new government austerity measures which would see 15,000 civil service employees lose their jobs ... (photo: AP / Dimitri Messinis) Al Jazeera
Economy   Greece   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: Greek government debt crisis  
In this photo taken during a government-organised tour for media, A Syrian boy walks past a burnt house and shops, in the town of Rastan in the central province of Homs, Syria, on Thursday Oct. 13, 2011. Bombardment of Syria's Homs resumes - activists
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Heavy bombardment of the Syrian city of Homs resumed on Tuesday after at least 95 civilians were killed on Monday in an offensive to put down a popula... (photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman) The Star
Activists   Photos   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 20112012 Syrian uprising (from January 2012)  
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, right, and his wife Asma Assad watch a presentation at the campus of Infosys Technologies Ltd., an Indian software services company, campus in Bangalore, India, Friday, June 20, 2008. Al-Assad is on a five-day official visit to In Assad's wife defends Syria crackdown
| The British-born wife of Syria's president has spoken in support of her husband for the first time since the 11-month uprising against his regime began, a British newsp... (photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi) Your Middle East
Photos   Politics   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: Asma al-Assad  
Iraq Saudi Arabia
Sunni Ministers in Iraq Return to Cabinet
U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half
Women's prison chief killed, 8 wounded in Iraq
Saudi Qaeda leader sentenced to death in Iraq
President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Washington. Obama says lawmakers must remember that the standoff over the cuts is not about politics: He says: "This is about the American people."
Obamas set to host dinnerin honor of Iraq veterans
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Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria as forces bombard H
Worldly Wise: Oil market doing what comes naturally
Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria as forces bombard
Gulf crisis ripples across t
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign rally at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.
Conservatives don't like Romney
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Syria Kuwait
Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria
Rudd outlines sanctions against Syrian regime
Assad ready to implement Syria reform plan: Russian FM
The bells toll ominously
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives for a meeting with Israel's President Shimon Peres, not seen, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
Russia's Lavrov says al-Assad committed to halting violence
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Gulf states to expel Syrian envoys, recall their own
Russia says Assad still wants dialogue; shelling continues a
Two jailed activists released in Bahrain
Syrian siege of Homs is genocidal, say trapped residents
U.S. President Barack Obama looks on during the G8 Summit, in L'Aquila, Italy, Thursday, July 9, 2009
It’s risky to attack Iran: Obama
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UAE Egypt
ID card deadlines eased in free zones
New treatment offers impotent men fresh hope
Sharjah court steps in to handle backlog of fire victims'
FNC passes law on translators
Grocer in fruits and vegetables section, Dubai UAE
2011 food import to Dubai rises by 18 per cent
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Palestinians shift focus from Israel to unity
Sunni Ministers in Iraq Return to Cabinet
Egypt expects visitor numbers to increase despite clashes
Freedom from cycle of violence
President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic National Committee event, Monday, May 16, 2011, in Washington.
Gingrich sees Egypt as Obama version of Iran hostage crisis
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Jordan Iran
Hale and Blair discuss Middle East peace in Jordan
Turkey, Europe And Middle East Seek Balance In Islamic Count
Football and the Arab Spring February 4, 2012
Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria
Vitaly Churkin, U.N. Russian Ambassador speaks at a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 during emergency consultations on the conflict between Russia and Georgia after France requested discussion of a new draft plan to end the hostiliti
Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria
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Iran parliament summons president for questioning
Iran shrugs off latest US sanctions, trade suffers
Palestinians shift focus from Israel to unity
The Iranian knot
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves from his airplane before departing to Ecuador at the Jose Marti international airport in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012.
Iran parliament summons President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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