TOBYHANNA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -
President George W. Bush on Friday called on Syria to fully cooperate with a U.N. inquiry into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister and to stop trying to "intimidate and destabilize" the Lebanese government.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The al Qaeda group led by America's deadliest foe in Iraq claimed responsibility on Thursday for three suicide bombings that ripped through luxury hotels in Jordan's capital and killed 56...
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THE LAVISH praise Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received for his Gaza “disengagement” plan was enough for one Israeli journalist to call him “the most warmly courted, popular new star” that “the world’s red carpets are waiting for.”
The compliments may...
It's portrayed as a place of glittering spectacle and conspicuous consumption, but what's Dubai in the United Arab Emirates really like? Clark Stevenson, an English expat who is one of those who has joined this...
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Donald Trump, a New York real-estate mogul, may have found his soulmate: Dubai%u2019s booming property market. In a deal signed in October, Nakheel, a state-run developer in Dubai, will brand 17 hotels (including...
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"Thousands of Iranians burned flags and chanted slogans against Israel
and the United States on Wednesday in the largest demonstration in
years outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran."Feeling emboldened by the fact that they now control vast tracts of Iraq...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Police in northeastern Iran are launching a new morality drive by confiscating alluring mannequins from boutiques and clothes stalls in the bazaar, authorities in the city of Bojnourd said Monday.
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors told a jury on Monday that a U.S. man plotted with al Qaeda to kill President George W. Bush but his lawyer said he confessed to such a plot only because he was tortured in a Saudi jail.
The lawyers were making their case...
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, cheered by thousands of supporters, signaled on Friday he stood by his call for Israel to be wiped off the map, while Iran's foreign ministry sought to defuse a diplomatic storm.
Israel said it would request an emergency...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Wednesday that Israel is a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the map" fiery words that Washington said underscores its concern over Iran's nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad's speech to thousands of students at...
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Can Dubai sustain such massive construction? Will Dubai become a model
of a post-oil Middle Eastern economy? Is it the future? And why Dubai
of all places? Why a seven-star hotel? The world? The palms? A...
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Third World War
I'm no historian, so I don't really know at which stage wars get named. We can look back and refer to the Gulf War, and everyone knows what we're talking about. Vietnam War, obviously. That was pretty easy. There's been a bunch of mini-wars that have failed...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When Salem Moosa looks out over the
skyscrapers spreading like a metallic rash over the sand, this is what
he sees: The Eiffel Tower. The Pyramids. The Taj Mahal. He's angling to...
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The narration begins: As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-colored islands in the shape of an almost finished puzzle of the world. In the shallow green waters between continents,...
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