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Indian soldiers carry the coffin of Indian Army officer R.D. Mehta, who died in Monday's bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a cremation service in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 8, 200
Afghanistan   India   Pakistan   Photos   Terrorism
 Asia Times 
Now it's war against India in Afghanistan
By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE - The suicide bomber who crashed an explosive-laden car into the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday not only killed 41 people and injured more than... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi)
Baalbek International Festival
Beirut   Concert   Festival   Lebanon   Photos
 Daily Star Lebanon 
Baalbek Festival returns from a two-year hiatus
Lebanon's esteemed summer extravaganza returns with a six-concert program, starting in Beirut By Esther Krenz Muller Special to The Daily Star Tuesday, July 08, 2008... (photo: AP / Saleh Rifai)
UBS Bank, Offenbach  Turkish Press 
UBS to expand in Mideast

Logo of the Swiss banking giant UBS. Switzerland's biggest bank UBS has announced that it was stepping up its expansion in the Middle East with a new licence to operate in Saudi Arabia. (AFP/File)... (photo: Public Domain / Christos Vittoratos)
Bank   Finance   Mideast   Photos   Switzerland
A Palestinian protestor throws stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Hebron Monday, May 15, 2000. In the worst violence in four years, Israeli troops and Palestinian police engaged in fierce gun battles Monday, as protests swept across the West bank and Gaza Strip marking "Al Naqba", the Arabic word for catastrophe used to describe Israel's founding in 1948, and demanding the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The violence came despite a decision Monday, by theIsraeli Cabinet to transfer three West Bank villages near Jerusalem to Palestinian control in a goodwill gesture  USA Today 
Israeli forces raid West Bank mall, claim linked to Hamas
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Nasser Ishtayeh, AP Palestinian girls pass by a closed shop in a shopping mall in the West Bank town of Nablus on July 8, 2008.... (photo: AP Photo / Lefteris Pitarakis)
Hamas   Israel   Mall   Mideast   Photos   West Bank
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 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak speaks to reporters during a news conference Monday,tmg1 The Star
Israel to reopen Gaza crossings at Egypt's request
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said it would reopen its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to an Egyptian request, reversing an earlier decision to... (photo: AP Photo / John Klicker)
Gaza   Hamas   Israel   Politics   Photos
Malaysia National Mosque BBC News
Swiss minaret ban gains momentum
In Switzerland some 115,000 people have signed a proposal to ban the building of minarets. The campaign is being organised by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP),... (photo: WN)
Campaign   Islam   Photos   Swiss   Switzerland
Incoming Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, at podium on left, addresses the Iraqi Parliament inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq The Star
Iraq insists on U.S. withdrawal timetable - official
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, the government's... (photo: (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) / Khalid Mohammed))
Baghdad   Iraq   Photos   Politics   US
 Gabriela Garcia, 24, who works as a maid in a home, washes clothes, Jan. 20, 2003, in Mexico City. Mexico remains in the dark ages when it comes to the treatment of domestic workers, despite repeated efforts by activists to reform antiquated labor laws a The Star
Some maids face inhuman treatment in Saudi - report
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia needs to improve labour law protections and end its "sponsorship" system to prevent domestic workers being treated like slaves, New... (photo: AP Photo)
Human Rights   Photos   Riyadh   Saudi Arabia   Treatment
 President Bush is pictured in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 13,2007, during a meeting with recipients of the 2007 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)   (js1) The State
US moves against Iranian officials, companies

By JEANNINE AVERSA - AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration moved Tuesday to impose financial sanctions on Iranian officials and companies accused of... (photo: AP/Charles Dharapak)
Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Sanctions   US
A U.S. soldier from 2nd patrol set, Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y., search a field for weapons in a village located in the Southern region of Kirkuk province, Iraq, June 17, 2008. Fresno Bee
List of coalition deaths
As of Monday, July 7, 2008, at least 4,114 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.... (photo: U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Ave I. Pele-Sizelove)
Coalition   Deaths   Iraq   Military   Photos
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