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U.S. President Barack Obama waves from the Air Force One upon arrival at the Osan U.S. Air Force Base in Osan, 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Obama arrived here for the last leg of his four-country Asian tour. Watch lists grow; Obama to meet security team
Watch lists grow; Obama to meet security team... (photo: AP / Lee Jin-man) Deccan Chronicle
Obama   People   Photos   Politics   US
Exclusive photos, at the bottom of Burj Dubai construction site Dubai, UAE, November 2007 Tallest building in Dubai named after bailout patron
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper Monday and, in a surprise move, renamed the gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis) The Gleaner
Arab   Asia   Dubai   Photos   World
Iraqi Prime Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gestures as he announces during a press conference in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 that the government was sending troops to Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, to fight the insurgents who have taken refuge there following operations in Baghdad and surrounding areas. Al-Maliki announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly bombings that killed nearly 40 people. He promised the fight "will be decisive." Iraq has filed case against Blackwater: PM Maliki
Najaf, January 05: Iraq has filed a lawsuit against private security firm Blackwater in a US court and will file another in Iraq, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday, amid fury over an... (photo: AP Photo / Ahmed al-Husseini) The Siasat Daily
Court   Iraq   Photos   Politics   US
 Yemeni women in Islamic covered dress pass a young soldier with his AK-47 submachine gun in Sana, Sunday May 21, 2000. Amid tight security involving more than 25,000 troops, senior officials and dignitaries from 47 countries began arriving in Yemen Sunda Yemen rules out US intervention
Yemen's foreign minister has ruled out direct US military intervention to tackle al-Qaeda fighters operating in his country. "Yemen is going to deal with terrorism in its own way, out of its own... (photo: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) Al Jazeera
Al Qaeda   Photos   US   War   Yemen
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre), President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, enter the Secretary-General's office at UN Headquarters in New York, 25 September, 2009. Iran jails journalist for seven years
TEHARAN: Iran has sentenced a prominent journalist critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economic policies to more than seven years in prison and to be lashed, opposition websites reported... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) The Himalayan
Campaign   Iran   Journalist   Photos   President
British soldier of the Waterloo Company, Scotts Dragoon Guards, pulls security in Basra City, Iraq, Nov. 8, 2008. Islam group refuses to scrap march
Wootton Bassett is preparing to honour two more fallen British soldiers as a controversial Islamic group pressed ahead with plans for a march through the town. Islam4UK said it would apply to police... (photo: US Army / Spc. Karah Cohen) Ananova
British   Group   Islam   Photos   Scrap
Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Combined Forces Clinton calls Yemen situation threat to global security
Washington, January 05: The unstable situation in Yemen poses a threat to regional and global security, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. International efforts to support the... (photo: Public Domain / Www06035) The Siasat Daily
Economy   Photos   Politic   Security   Washington
Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, seen at centre, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Burj Dubai is over 800 metres (2,625 ft) tall and has more than 160 stores, the most of any building in the world. Besides an observation deck on its 124th floor affording 360-degree views of the entire city, Burj Dubai is home to the world's first Armani Hotel, luxury offices and residences, and a variety of other sophisticated leisure and entertainment facilities. Burj Dubai will ultimately be the place of residence, work and leisure for a community of up to 12,000 people. World's tallest building, renamed as Burj Khalifa
Dubai, January 05: The world’s tallest building is an amazing 828 meters tall and it was inaugurated today by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of... (photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili) The Siasat Daily
Construction   Dubai   Media   Photos   UAE
Fireworks light up, Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building during the official opening ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. Dubai Opens World's Tallest Tower
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper Monday in a blaze of fireworks, then added a final flourish: It renamed the half-mile-high tower for the head of neighboring... (photo: AP / Nousha Salimi) WPXI
Arab   Dubai   Photos   Real Estate   UAE
This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows pro-government female Iranian students chanting slogans as they hold posters of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during their demonstration, at Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Iranian Professors Call for End to Violent Tactics
TORONTO - Risking expulsion and possibly arrest, 88 professors at Tehran University signed a letter on Monday calling on Ayatollah Khamenei, the country's supreme religious leader, to end the use of... (photo: AP) The New York Times
HumanRights   Leaders   Photos   Politics   Tehran
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