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Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation wraps up roadshow
Dubai: The Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation announced it has successfully concluded its pan-Arab roadshow in 14 Arab countries to promote two of its flagship education programmes aimed at... (photo: Public Domain / the International Monetary Fund)
Oil platform - Oil price /Wam2
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Oman budget in red as oil falls
Muscat: Oman yesterday insisted that the country will not hold back any of its development projects as it presented the 2009 budget with the deficit of 810 million Omani riyals. "There is no... (photo: Public Domain / )
President George W. Bush speaks about a recent meeting with Iraqi Government officials as Secretary of State Condolezza Rice looks on at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Sept. 3, 2007.  WorldNews.com 
Good Riddance Mr. and Ms. Euphemism!

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice who, after the attacks on Sept 11 and sitting before the 9/11 Commission, said there was... (photo: US DoD / Cherie A. Thurlby)
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A Palestinian woman and her daughter walk by the rubble of a building used by Hamas security forces, destroyed by Israeli forces' operations in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 6. 2009. Israeli forces edged closer to Gaza's major population centers on Tuesday and attacked new targets, including a U.N. school, taking more civilian lives after ignoring mounting international calls for an immediate cease-fir  The Australian 
Israeli strike kills 20 inside UN school in Gaza: medics
AN Israeli strike killed at least 20 people who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
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Surrounded by Security officers, Tourists and photographers, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center left and Italian top model and singer Carla Bruni, center right visit the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. Dressed in casual clothes and riding in a 26-car motorcade, Sarkozy left his hotel in the Egyptian historic site of Luxor and visited the Valley of the Kings, burial site of Egypt's Pharaohs. The News Tribune
Sarkozy pushes Syria to pressure ally Hamas
DAMASCUS, Syria -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Syria on Tuesday to exert pressure on its ally Hamas to help end the fighting in the Gaza Strip between the... (photo: AP Photo / Nasser Nasser)
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A Palestinian woman sits amidst the rubble of her destroyed home in Gaza. Israel has violated international law by systematically destroying Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah in a bid to create a buffer zone along the border with Egypt, a The Australian
Two sides in Gaza conflict looking for a way out
AS Israel tightened its pressure on Hamas strongholds yesterday, both sides were hoping that external forces would intervene to spare them even bloodier encounters... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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Gaza - Palestinian children run across a waste ground of rubble and destroyed buildings following an Israeli raid. Meanwhile, the Israeli Supreme Court has demanded explanations from the army over the scale of the destruction of Palestinian homes in the The Australian
Media outrage at ban on reporters
EREZ CROSSING: Israel yesterday scrapped arrangements to allow the first foreign reporters into Gaza since it launched an all-out war against Palestinian militants,... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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A morgue worker is seen as bodies are piled into the morgue fridge at the Beit Lahia hospital in the northern Gaza Strip 08 November 2006, following an Israeli military attack . WN (NOUR AHMED ) NA1 The Australian
Hospitals in Gaza Strip feel the human toll
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Salah Samouni banged his head in grief against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies of his three nephews lay on the floor yesterday.... (photo: WN NOUR AHMED )
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Palestinians inspect the destroyed Workers Union headquarters in Gaza The Australian
Military victory impossible in Gaza: Janes Intelligence
LONDON: Israel wants to complete the Gaza invasion within 10 days but a military victory over Hamas is impossible, defence analysis group Jane's estimates. Security in... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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An Israeli Army soldier takes cover as a mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fir The Australian
Case of with us or against us
A FEW days ago a column appeared in the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz by a well-known journalist, Ari Shavit, about "Israelis who blame Israel". Unleashing his... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus)
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A sign reading 'Attention - natural gas pipeline' is seen on a fence of a gas station in Posthausen, Germany, in a June 16, 2008 file pho Furious EU protests after Russian gas supplies cut off The Times
The head of Ukrainian state energy company Naftogas, Oleh Dubyna, third from right, and Ukrainians officials, right, during their meeting with EU officials, left, in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. Turkey, Romania, Greece and other Balkan nations reported a complete shut off of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine Tuesday, in a sharp escalation of a struggle over energy that threatens Europe as winter sets in. Ukraine said Russia's Gazprom state-controlled energy company slashed natural gas shipments to Europe by about two-thirds, triggering the cu Ukraine gas official: Talks to resume Philadelphia Daily News
The first joint of the Russian onshore section of the North European Gas Pipeline (gm1) Russian gas supplies to Balkans halted Kansas City Star
New Oil Filed Iraq Opens 11 Oil & Gas Fields for Foreign Bids Rig Zone
Terrorism
Palestinian masked militants from the Islamic Jihad Movement show a piece of an Israeli tank damaged by a militant´s road bomb, as they celebrate after an Israeli withdrawal October 17, 2007 in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Hamas gunman Hazem A About peace, not destruction of Hamas The Australian
Iraqi police and firefighters inspect the site following a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006. Three suicide car bombers and two mortar attacks shook Baghdad´s Sadr City Shiite slum Thursday afternoon, killing at least 30 Dozens killed in latest Iraq suicide attack Boston Herald
President George W. Bush speaks on the phone with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad from his office Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, discussing ways to stop the violence in the Gaza Strip. George W Bush: Hamas is entirely responsible for the Israeli invasion of Gaza Belfast Telegraph
A Palestinian youth watches as Israeli bulldozers flatten parts of Beit Hanoun. Tanks, troops and bulldozers reoccupied a Gaza town yesterday in a bid to curb Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, after the crudely made missiles claimed their first Israeli vic Cultures clash over Gaza invasion The Australian
Islam
Kashmiri Muslim offering namaz during special prayers to observe the Martyr Day of Hazrat Ali, cousin of Prophet Mohammed on the 21st day of Ramadan at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 22, September, 2008 Muslims in prayer over Gaza The Australian
Muslims Christians Women's Federation - Muslim - Islam Islamic New Year is on Jan. 6 Inquirer
Muslims participate in Friday prayers on the first day of Islam's holy month of Ramadan at the Jame'a Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, 120 kilomteters (75 miles) from the Iran-Afghanistan border, Friday, Nov. 16, 2001. Middle East can turn on a new axis Asia Times
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