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During a firefight with Taliban militants, U.S. Marine combat photographer Lance Cpl. John McCall, with 1st Battalion 5th Marines returns fire, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009.
Afghanistan   Military   Obama   Photos   Taliban		  BBC News 
Barack Obama unveils new Afghan strategy
Wed 2 Dec 2009
US President Barack Obama is delivering a speech spelling out his review of Afghan strategy and is ordering a surge of 30,000 additional US troops. Mr Obama is also setting out how the US will... (photo: AP / Brennan Linsley)
Backdropped by The Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, in Israeli flag wth a black ribbon flutters in the wind at the Mount of Olives cemetery, where Israeli soldiers who died during the battle for Jerusalem in the 1967 war are buried, during a ceremony to mark Memorial Day in Jerusalem, Wednesday May 11, 2005. Israel is observing Wednesday its annual memorial day for soldiers and civilians killed in more than a century of conflict between Jews and
EU   Israel   Jerusalem   Palestine   Photos		  The Independent 
EU Palestine move enrages Israelis
Wed 2 Dec 2009
Israel yesterday reacted angrily to a draft EU proposal for East Jerusalem to be a future Palestinian capital that allows the possibility of endorsing a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. A... (photo: AP / Enric Marti)
During a firefight with Taliban militants, U.S. Marine Cpl. Matthew Doherty, of Bastrop, Texas, center left, runs for a new position with a group of fellow Marines with 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, and an Afghan soldier, and an interpreter, left, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009.  The Guardian  Wed 2 Dec 2009
Obama: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by summer

STEVEN R. HURST Associated Press Writers= WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war... (photo: AP / Brennan Linsley)
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an economics conference in Air Port City near Tel Aviv, Israel,Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009.  Arab News  Wed 2 Dec 2009
Israel warns EU over Jerusalem

AP JERUSALEM: Israel sternly warned the European Union on Tuesday against recognizing East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, saying such a move would damage Europe's credibility as a Middle East... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
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Iraqi reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush and became a folk hero in the Arab world for his act, speaks during a press conference at the Geneva press club, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. BBC News Wed 2 Dec 2009
Iraq shoe thrower Zaidi faces Paris shoe-ing

Shoes thrown at George Bush... then at his attacker in a similar incident The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has found himself... (photo: AP / Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
Foreign Policy   Iraq   Paris   Photos   US
Dubai deira, UAE, November 2007 Wall Street Journal Tue 1 Dec 2009
U.A.E. Leaders Try to Ease Concerns Over Dubai
By MARIA ABI HABIB And MIRNA SLEIMAN DUBAI--The leadership of the United Arab Emirates tried Tuesday to steady the nerves of investors after concerns over Dubai's debt... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Arab   Debt   Dubai   Photos   UAE
Secretary-General Kofi Annan (second from left) meets with Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa (third from right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, and his delegation, today at UN Headquarters. (mb1) Khaleej Times Tue 1 Dec 2009
We Will Meet Challenges with Perseverance
Shaikh Mohammed said on Tuesday that the people of his country and his emirate have the willpower and perseverance to meet any challenge including those posed by... (photo: UN /Evan Schneider )
Country   Emirates   Journalists   People   Photos
President Barack Obama walks out of the house to read a statement about the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Chilmark. Khaleej Times Tue 1 Dec 2009
Obama Needs Drama

When he entered the White House, Barack Obama declared that his administration will be characterised by different tones: without exaggerated zeal, without verbal... (photo: AP / Alex Brandon)
Israel   Palestine   Photos   Politics   US
Minaret of Fez mosques seen through the islamic shapped opening one of the entrances of Fez called The Blue Gate. August 2007. The Times Tue 1 Dec 2009
Minarets, religious tolerance and towers on the horizon

Sir, Amid the debate about Swiss minarets (leading article, Nov 30, Thunderer, Dec 1, and letter, Dec 1), it is worth pausing to draw attention to the situation facing... (photo: Creative Commons / Cassio Lopes & Alessandra Santo)
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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is interviewed by the Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in Washington. When Obama travels to Africa next month for a five-nation, 15-day tour, he will have one credential no other U.S. senator can claim: he is the son of an African. ``As the only African-American in the U.S. Senate, there is obviously some symbolic power to my visit,'' Obama said. Obama orders 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan with vow to begin withdrawing US forces in 2011 Star Tribune
President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. Obama sends more troops -- 'our security is at stake' The Press Democrat
President Barack Obama looks at daily correspondence in the Oval Office with his personal secretary Katie Johnson 1/30/09. USA to unveil new Afghan strategy The Statesman
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The regional headquarters of Pfizer in Vanha Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland. Pfizer Acquires Rights to Treatment for Rare Disorder The New York Times
An oil worker tightens oil pipes in al-Bakir Harbor in Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, July 15, 20 Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq The New York Times
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he delivers his speech at a ceremony honoring the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday once again turned his fiery rhetoric on Israel and saying that it will soon disappear from the world map. Ahmadinejad was speaking at a ceremony honoring the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on his death anniversar Iran's Adventurism The Times
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Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, March 16, 2009. Netanyahu's Likud Party has initialed a coalition agreement with Yisrael Beitenu, an ultranationalist faction that brings its leader Avigdor Lieberman significantly closer to becoming foreign minister, a Likud party spokeswoman said Monday. Netanyahu: Settlement freeze only temporary Houston Chronicle
The sun rises as Soldiers of Company F, 3rd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, wait in the early morning for two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to pick them and bring them to a nearby town to conduct a patrol, Sept. 18 US neglected post-war planning for Iraq, inquiry told BBC News
Former British prime minister Tony Blair, now the Middle East envoy for the so-called Quartet peacemakers, gestures as he delivers a speech at a meeting of the French ruling conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement party (UMP), Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 in Paris. Blair was invited on Saturday by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to deliver a speech before some 2,000 party members. (js1) Is this Iraq memo really so explosive? The Guardian
091118-A-3108M-001 U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Rodney Clark, 1st Recon team leader of Scout Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), signals to his Iraqi scout partners to lead out during training for upcoming partnered missions at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, on Nov. 18, 2009. The paratroopers belong to the first fully-augmented advise-and-assist brigade to deploy to increase the military and civil capacities of Iraqi institutions. DoD photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod, U.S. Army. (Released) U.S. didn't plan on peacekeeping in Iraq, Brit says The Columbus Dispatch
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