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An anti-terror policeman clears the way from onlookers after a raid in Pamulang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Australia   Indonesia   Photos   SE Asia   Terrorism  
Indonesia president confirms death of militant Dulmatin
| The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has confirmed that the terror suspect Dulmatin was killed in a police raid in Jakarta. | Indonesian security forces said they had killed three sus... (photo: AP / Tatan Syuflana)
BBC News
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain David Miliband holds a bilateral with Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, not shown, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2009, at the State Department in Washington.
Afghanistan   Peace   Photos   Politics   UK  
UK minister urges push for Afghan peace
LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taleban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbours must support such an... (photo: AP / Lawrence Jackson)
Khaleej Times
File - Detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, sit on prayer rugs as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009. UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 boss
| • Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was 'concealed' | • Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff | Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller criticised George Bush and his administration, for torture of terror su... (photo: US Navy / MCS2 Marcos T. Hernandez) The Guardian
Guantanamo   Photos   Terrorism   Torture   UK   US  
Police officer investigates a grave where the body of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos was discovered at Strovolos cemetery, a suburb of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Arrests over theft of Cyprus ex-leader's corpse
| Three men have been arrested in connection with the theft of the corpse of Cyprus's ex-President Tassos Papadopoulos, officials say. | Police said they had arrested two Greek Cypriots and a foreign ... (photo: AP / Petros Karadjias) BBC News
Crime   Cyprus   Law   Photos   President  
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks to students at the U.S. Air Force Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., April 14, 2009.  Secretary Gates is on the start of a four day trip visiting all of the branches war colleges. DOD photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison(RELEASED) Gates Visits Former Taliban Village
| NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, b... (photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison) The New York Times
Afghanistan   Pakistan   Photos   Terror   US  
An Electoral worker empties a ballot box to begin counting the results at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Some Iraq Results Coming Wednesday
| BAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete p... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim) The New York Times
Election   Iraq   Parliament   Photos   Vote  
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, listens to Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, right, looks on during a military parade in Tehran in Sept. 2007. Jafari, on Friday Nov. 23, 2007, warned that if the nation's enemies continued plotting against it, they would launch what he called "a tidal wave of resistance" Iran can deter attacks on nuclear sites: minister
DOHA - Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned Tuesday that Tehran has 'great means of deterrence' to face any possible attack over its nuclear programme... (photo: AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE) Khaleej Times
Defence   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   US  
Islamic Center A Visit to Oxford Islamic Centre
Recently, I was taken on a tour of the sprawling future home of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies now under construction on the grounds of Magdalen College. | Senior ... (photo: Creative Commons / Unfocused) Khaleej Times
Future   Islamic   Muslim   Oxford   Photos  
President Hosni Mubarak attends a joint press cEgyptian onference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (tmg1) What will it Take for Change to Come to Egypt?
Not so long ago, when an American president wanted help in the Arab world, he would call Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who was routinely known as America's close... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser) Khaleej Times
Egypt   Mubarak   Photos   President   World  
In front of the pictures of the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech in a ceremony of 19th death anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Ahmadinejad, known for vitriolic anti-Israeli rhetoric, has again predicted the demise of Israel, according to Iran's IRNA news ag To Bash Them Is to Help Them
| PARIS - On her recent visit to the Gulf, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton openly stated a fact that is finally becoming clear to outsiders: Iran is moving toward mili... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi) The New York Times
Iran   Photos   Politics   Sanctions   US  
Electoral workers sit in front of piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. Atrocities may fill Iraqi power vacuum
| By Ali Kareem and Hemin H Lihony | BAGHDAD and SULAIMANIYAH - The post-election political deadlock following Iraq's parliamentary elections on Sunday could lead to secu... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim) Asia Times
Elections   Extremism   Iraq   Photos   Politics  
An Afghan boy looks back as U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010. Marjah, the city that never was
| By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) Asia Times
Afghanistan   Defence   NATO   Photos   US  
Construction workers are seen on a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Israel approves East Jerusalem homes as Biden visits
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | Speaking earlier, Joe Biden said Washington had a total commitment to Israel's security | Israel has app... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner) BBC News
Israel   Jerusalem   Palestine   Peace   Photos   US  
Civil Rights Iraq
Irish Take Bitter Medicine to Survive the Age of Red Ink
In another raid, State Police hit beer distributor, Origlio&
Brothers describe attacks at 2 Septa stations by teens on a
Santorum sows political seeds among Iowa conservatives
Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-democracy leader of the NLD (National League for Democracy), points during a press conference at her residential compound in Rangoon on Saturday, August 31, 1996. Suu Kyi informed journalists of the stiff sentencing and continued harassment toward NLD members by the Burmese government.
Law Bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi From Election
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Friedman: The future of this real Islamic democracy is up to
Editorial: Iraq's purple revolution
Lenoir City, Bristol guardsmen leaving March 28 to train in
It's Up to Iraqis Now. Good Luck.
Iraqi election officials examine a ballot after the polls closed in the country's provincial elections in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.
Iraq delays announcement of initial election results as ballot counting continues
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Afghanistan Middle East
Taliban Claim Suicide Attack on NATO-Afghan Base
'Foreign troops not peace solution in Afghanistan'
Iran leader: US playing `game' in Afghanistan
Bomb kills five; Gates, Ahmadinejad in Afghanistan
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain David Miliband holds a bilateral with Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, not shown, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2009, at the State Department in Washington.
UK minister urges push for Afghan peace
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Dana Gas sponsors Mideast Prospect Exhibition
Ahmadinejad arrives in Afghanistan: govt
Call to monitor knife sales to teenagers in UAE
Driver denies bribing immigration officer to gain entry into
Police officer investigates a grave where the body of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos was discovered at Strovolos cemetery, a suburb of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Arrests over theft of Cyprus ex-leader's corpse
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