Tag: middle east
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November 21, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers are seeking a compromise in a dispute over an election law that was vetoed by a vice president, throwing national polls slated for January into question.
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November 21, 2009 10:04 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply.
Foreign undersecretary Labid Abawi . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:06 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers on Saturday sought a compromise in a dispute over an election law that was vetoed by a vice president, throwing national polls slated for January into question.
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November 21, 2009 01:05 PM EST --
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the disease soon after arriving . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas announced Saturday evening that it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns to prevent retaliatory . . .
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November 22, 2009 01:03 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its aircraft have attacked two weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
The military says the air strikes Sunday were in retaliation . . .
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November 21, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament is discussing ways to end a dispute over an election law after a vice president vetoed the bill, throwing national polls slated for January into question.
Vice . . .
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November 21, 2009 08:05 AM EST --
CAIRO (AP) — President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated.
Mubarak did . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:32 PM EST --
US to drop charges against one of the Blackwater Defendents. I read whereby this incident incited anti-American sentiment in the Middle East. Geez people, did they like us before? Stupid. . . .
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May 15, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
From CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry
JERUSALEM (CNN) – In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other . . .
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September 30, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
"Fear is, I believe, a most effective
tool in destroying the soul of an
individual -- and the soul of a people."
-- Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was the third president . . .
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November 21, 2009 09:00 AM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV is reporting that the country will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting nuclear facilities against any possible attack.
Gen. . . .
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December 02, 2007 01:05 PM EST --
It's about time she started doing her job and not just seem like Bush's press agent. But for all her good intentions can she get a two state solution? Where is it going to come from? . . .
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November 20, 2009 03:06 PM EST --
SANA'A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
A coast . . .
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March 18, 2009 09:37 PM EDT --
I read the following quote in my Newsweek today, and I damn near spit out my coffee, and fell out of my chair.
If we give the money to the widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated, . . .
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November 20, 2009 07:06 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader is calling on the country's fractious political blocs to solve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls . . .
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March 09, 2007 11:54 AM EST --
Many, even in the supposedly enlightened newly elected Democratic Congress still don't get it. They think that by leaving Iraq, we are cutting and running. This is why they can barely muster . . .
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January 16, 2008 12:41 PM EST --
How the Pentagon planted a false story - Gareth Porter
The ballyhooed US-Iranian Strait of Hormuz speedboat incident was essentially a propaganda hoax concocted by the Pentagon as evidence . . .
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November 20, 2009 10:06 AM EST --
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit. . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:07 AM EST --
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.
The Palestinian Election Commission . . .
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