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Lebanon cabinet cancels crackdown
May 15, 2008 - 00:37
Lebanon's cabinet has endorsed a decision to revoke two measures that cracked down on Hezbollah and sparked fierce gun battles in Beirut last week.
The violence was sparked when the government issued an order to dismantle Hezbollah's communications system and to sack the head of airport...
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Iraq Orphans Neglected, Abused
May 15, 2008 - 00:38
BAGHDAD — Fadel Mohammad Ra’ad, 10, is one of thousands of children who have
lost their parents to the endless violence that has been gripping Iraq since the
2003 US-led invasion.
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Israel Plans New West Bank Settlement
May 15, 2008 - 00:38
JERUSALEM, 15 May 2008 —
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised to build about 600 apartments in
contentious West Bank settlements, an Olmert ally said yesterday — an
embarrassing disclosure that threatened to sour a visit by US...
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Remembering Palestine
May 15, 2008 - 00:38
GAZA
—Sixty
long years have passed and Vera John still vividly remembers her home...
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Israeli PM probe clouds Bush visit
May 15, 2008 - 00:38
Israeli police have stepped up a corruption investigation into Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, ahead of a visit to the region by George Bush as part of the state's 60th anniversary.
The US president arrived in Israel on Wednesday, a day after police raided government offices as part of...
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'Everyone is thinking for themselves'
May 15, 2008 - 00:38
Yesterday the family's main
meal was eggs, bread and tea. Today Etedal Zanati, 42, has stretched to a
kilogram of fish and a handful of potatoes and tomatoes for dinner, to be shared
between herself, her 10 children, her mother-in-law and her...
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UK orders inquiry into Iraqi death
May 15, 2008 - 00:38
Britain has bowed to pressure and said it will open an independent inquiry into the death of an Iraqi hotel worker who was beaten and died in British custody in southern Iraq in 2003.
The move follows years of legal wrangling in which the family of Baha Musa and eight other Iraqis who survived...
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Lebanon crisis sparks regional row
May 14, 2008 - 03:11
Deadly clashes between pro- and anti-government fighters in Lebanon have given way to harsh verbal exchanges between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, warned Iran on Tuesday about what he called support of a "coup" in Lebanon by opposition forces.
He said:...
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Hamas Rejects Israel's Truce Condition
May 14, 2008 - 03:11
GAZA CITY — The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas rejected on Tuesday, May 13, Israeli conditions on an Egyptian-brokered truce proposal already accepted by Palestinian factions.
"Whoever thinks that the (captured Israeli soldier Gilad) Shalit issue will be settled for free as part of the...
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Italy: Muslims 'victims' of media
May 14, 2008 - 03:11
Rome, 12 May(AKI) - An international conference on multicultural relations has heard how Muslims suffer from discrimination and poor media perceptions about Islam.
The US state department's senior advisor to European and Eurasian Affairs, Farah Pandith, said Muslims suffered from a...
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Islamic Finance Fulfills US Home Dream
May 14, 2008 - 02:51
CAIRO — Mounir Elhaj was anxious to know how Islamic finance could help her avoid the dilemma of a woman she knows who lost her house after paying mortgage for 17 years once she started missing payments, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, May 13.
"The bank still took her house," Elhaj, 45,...
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Bush Tour Diminished by Hezbollah Show of Force
May 14, 2008 - 03:12
WASHINGTON - While this week¡¯s trip by President George W. Bush to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt was never conceived as a triumphant ¡°victory lap¡± around the region, the swift rout of U.S.-backed forces by Lebanon¡¯s Hezbollah Friday has provided yet another vivid illustration of the rapid...
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Violence erupts in Sadr City
May 14, 2008 - 03:12
At least 11 people have been killed and 20 others wounded after US troops and Shia fighters clashed in Baghdad's Sadr City, hospital officials have said, despite a truce being agreed at the weekend.
The US military on Tuesday confirmed clashes had taken place but said only three fighters had...
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Poor Haj Services Anger Governor
May 14, 2008 - 03:12
JEDDAH, 14 May 2008 — Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday called for a 10-year program to solve Haj-related problems. “Protecting the dignity of the guests of God (pilgrims) should be our main objective,” he told officials attending a workshop on Haj.
The governor criticized...
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Iran president to offer proposals to ease nuclear row
May 14, 2008 - 03:12
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will soon put forward new proposals to resolve its dispute with the West over its nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
But he also made clear the Islamic Republic would not bow to U.N. demands and suspend uranium enrichment activity that...
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Sharif quits Pakistan coalition over judges dispute
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
Pakistan's fragile coalition government suffered a blow yesterday when Nawaz Sharif, leader of the second-largest party, pulled his ministers from the six-week-old cabinet.
The withdrawal of the Pakistan Muslim League followed the collapse of talks with Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of the...
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Lebanese army vows use of force
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
The Lebanese military has promised to restore law and order to the country, by force if necessary.
The statement came as fighting continued between pro- and anti-government groups on Monday in the northern city of Tripoli, leaving one person dead.
"Army units will halt violations ... in...
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Israel Sets Terms for Gaza Truce
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
JERUSALEM, 13 May 2008 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked Egypt’s intelligence chief yesterday to tell Gaza fighters a truce would be conditional upon progress being made toward freeing a captive Israeli soldier.
Olmert also asked Omar Suleiman to tell the Palestinian armed factions they...
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U.N. and Iran hold talks on disputed nuclear work
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. atomic watchdog began talks on Monday on the Islamic state's disputed nuclear programme, which the West fears is a front to build weapons, the official IRNA news agency reported.
IRNA said Hermann Naeckerts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...
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Kidney for Bread in oil-rich Iraq
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
BAGHDAD — Iraq, which has the world's third-biggest oil reserves, is making billions of dollars in oil exerts thanks to record-setting prices. Still, many of its citizens sell parts of their own bodies just to survive.
"I couldn’t see my children crying for food and I can not get them at even...
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Sadr City Residents Fear A Cease-Fire Means More Violence
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
BAGHDAD - One day after an agreement between followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr and the Iraqi government to end more than six weeks of fighting, the streets in parts of the vast Shiite slum of Sadr City were deserted, amidst signs of a battle. Wires snaked out of potholes and from...
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From Nakba to Two-state Chimera
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
RAMALLAH — Sixty years after Israel was created on the rubbles of their country and after two decades of fruitless negotiations, Palestinians are losing faith in the long-touted two-state solution.
"Israel's maximum offers don't meet our minimum demands" a senior Palestinian official told...
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Siege of Gaza squeezes life out of the land
May 13, 2008 - 02:58
The field is planted with shoulder-high rows of corn and is so close to Israel that the tall concrete boundary wall is well within sight, along with the Israeli military jeeps on their regular patrols into northern Gaza.
For Abid Razzaq Ouda, 40, who farms this land, this brings its own...
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Fresh clashes rock Beirut
May 12, 2008 - 03:45
Renewed gunfire was heard in Beirut in the early hours of Monday morning, after a day of relative calm in the city amid clashes between pro- and anti-government fighters.
Reporting from the Lebanese capital, Al Jazeera correspondent James Bays, said that intense gunfire was heard in the...
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French Mosques Look up to Bourget
May 12, 2008 - 03:45
PARIS — Le Bourget, Europe's biggest gathering of Muslims, has become the best destination to raise funds to build much-needed mosques for France's sizable Muslim minority.
"Le Bourget has become the biggest opportunity for French Muslims to raise money for mosques," Qaderi told IslamOnline.net...
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Lebanese Army Deploys but Clashes Rage On
May 12, 2008 - 03:45
BEIRUT, 12 May 2008 — The army deployed across much of Lebanon yesterday after Hezbollah ceded control of west Beirut but clashes raged on in the north and in the Druze mountains. Heavy machine-gun fire and loud explosions echoed through a number of villages in the district of Aley as Druze...
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Arab League to send mediating mission to Lebanon
May 12, 2008 - 03:45
CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers, holding an emergency session on Sunday, will send a high-level delegation to Beirut immediately to try to mediate a way out of Lebanon's worst civil strife in 18 years, the Arab League said.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and Qatari Prime...
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OIC endeavoring to rectify Muslim image
May 12, 2008 - 03:45
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ýhsanoðlu has stated that a project called the Islamophobia Observatory has been launched in order to eliminate the worldwide waves of fear of Islam.
Ýhsanoðlu cited the commonsensical intellectual reaction of the Danish...
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Gaza power plant shuts down
May 12, 2008 - 03:45
A power plant in Gaza City has shut down, affecting 500,000 local inhabitants and forcing local hospitals to run on reserve fuel.
Large parts of the Gaza Strip, particularly Gaza City, were in darkness after the main power station shut down its generators on Saturday.
The Hamas government's...
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