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Bahrain to privatize Gulf Air as soon as profitable
Sun 25 Jul 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010 - Powered by MANAMA: Bahrain plans to privatize national carrier Gulf Air as soon as possible, encouraged by positive results in its restructuring, a senior government official... (photo: Creative Commons / Aero Icarus)
House Maid - Yaya - Dress - Dining Table
Campaign   Indian   Muscat   Photos   Wikipedia: Maid		  Gulf News 
Campaign to end abuse of maids
Sat 24 Jul 2010
Muscat: The near-solitary confinement of an Indian housemaid, Sajitha Suresh Babu, has once again highlighted the mental and physical torture that domestic servants can be subjected to in Oman. And... (photo: WN / Dominic Canoy)
Palestinians inspects the remains of a destroyed house in Rafah, south Gaza Strip, on May 22, 2010. Hamas security forces demolished dozens of illegally built homes in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Monday. Hamas officials said the buildings were constructed without proper permits on government-owned land. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN)  WorldNews.com  Sat 31 Jul 2010
Arabs' ties with Israel damages the Palestinian cause: Prof Gilbert Achcar
Article by WN Guest Writer Kourosh Ziabari Prof. Gilbert Achcar is a renowned Lebanese academician, writer, socialist and anti-war activist. He left Lebanon in 1983 and taught international relations... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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President Barack Obama talks with Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer  Deccan Chronicle  Sat 31 Jul 2010
Obama calls on Iran to release three Americans
Obama calls on Iran to release three Americans Share ARTICLEURL US President Barack Obama called on Iran on Friday to release three American hikers who have been held for a year, saying their... (photo: Creative Commons / BrokenSphere)
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A view of the city from Mount Abidar. As in most other parts of Iran, carpet weaving is one of the most significant handicrafts of the region, especially in Bijar and Sanandaj. Shaw, kilim and jajim weaving. The Siasat Daily Sat 31 Jul 2010
Iran quake injures 274; new tremor further south
Tehran, July 31: An earthquake in northeastern Iran injured 274 people on Friday, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported, and a slightly stronger tremor struck... (photo: Creative Commons / Ruler)
Middleeast   Iran   Photos   Quake   Tehran
military technology. Since 1976, Israel had been the largest annual recipient of U.S. foreign assistance. In 2009, Israel received $2.55 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants from the Department of Defense Kansas City Star Sat 31 Jul 2010
Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas rocket maker
Khalil Hamra Palestinians wheel a wounded man at the Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, late Friday, July 30, 2010. Late Friday, Israel targeted... (photo: Creative Commons / Chad J. McNeeley)
Hamas   Israel   Middleeast   Palestine   Photos
Emirates A380 Seattle Times Sat 31 Jul 2010
Debt crisis failed to impede Emirates' growth
Last year the global financial crisis finally burst the economic bubble of Dubai, hitting mainly the real-estate, construction and financial sectors in the extravagantly... (photo: Creative Commons / BriYYZ)
Debt   Emirates   Growth   Photos   Wikipedia: Emirates (airline)
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, center, receives Saudi King Abdullah, left,and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, upon their arrival at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 30, 2010. BBC News Sat 31 Jul 2010
Historic Saudi-Syrian Beirut visit shows Arab concern
It was mightily short on public statements and lasted only a... (photo: AP / Bilal Hussein)
Lebanon   Photos   Saudi Arabia   Syria   Wikipedia: Rafic Hariri
A woman walks by the graffiti reading "Kosovo is Serbia", Thursday, May 21,2009, in Belgrade. U.S Vice President Joe Biden offered Serbia "a strong, new relationship" with the U.S. on Wednesday, along with help in its European Union membership bid, despite deep differences over independence for Kosovo. Biden, the first senior U.S. official to visit Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last year has arrived in Kosovo to boost the new country's statehood in the face of strong opposition from Serbia. Irish Times Sat 31 Jul 2010
Serbia in UN bid to ward off Kosovo's secession
DANIEL McLAUGHLIN SERBIA AND Kosovo are engaged in a diplomatic battle over the status of the fledgling latter country, which is seeking wider recognition of its... (photo: AP / Srdjan Ilic)
Kosovo   Photos   Serbia   UN   Wikipedia: 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence
Palestinians wheel a wounded police officer at the Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, late Friday, July 30, 2010. Al Jazeera Fri 30 Jul 2010
Israeli jets strike Gaza
Israel has launched air attacks against targets in the Gaza Strip, injuring eight Palestinians, medical sources have said. Sami Zyara, a Palestinian journalist in the... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
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The exterior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, 360 kms southwest of Tehran, is seen on Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. Iran's top leader rejected a long-term suspension of uranium enrichment and threatened Wednesday that Iranian diplomats will withdraw from talks with European negotiators if they insist on such a suspension. Heavy water is used to moderate a nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. US hopes for Iran nuclear talks Al Jazeera
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures to a crowd on his regular provincial visit to southern Iranian port of Bushehr, where the first light-water nuclear power plant of the country is under construction by Russia, 1200 kms (720 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008. Ahmadinejad, Wednesday urged western powers to participate in construction of nuclear power plants for his country saying it will be late if they do not decide immediately, state television reported. Iran ready to curb enrichment if swap deal pans out Daily Star Lebanon
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David Cameron, foreground centre, leader of the British Conservatives party poses with members of his shadow cabinet, in central London, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. British PM works to deepen Indian economic ties Daily Star Lebanon
Iraqis inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A bomb planted near a state-run bank killed and injured several people in the eastern Shiite slum of Sadr City police said. Iraqi Insurgents Plant Qaeda Flag in Baghdad The New York Times
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, speaks to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Germany calls on Ankara to work toward EU accession criteria Daily Star Lebanon
Shahram Amiri, center, an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared a year ago, flashes a victory sign at the conclusion of his news briefing as he arrived at the Imam Khomeini airport just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Iranian spy still a teasing enigma Asia Times
Islam
In this Friday, April 23, 2010 file photo, a 31-year-old French veiled woman, no name released, addresses the media in Nantes, western France. Qaeda's Zawahri condemns France, Yemen clerics - Web The Star
File:Crowds outside Camp Justice Iraq.jpg Bombings kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq The Siasat Daily
File:Revolution flag of Egypt 1919.svg Escape of Egyptian priest's wife inflames sectarian tensions Daily Star Lebanon
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