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Ali Babacan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey, addresses the Alliance of Civilizations Group of Friends Ministerial meeting.
Business   Economy   Photos   Turkey   Wikipedia: Ali Babacan		  Turkish Press 
Babacan: Turkey’s growth target in 2012 is 4 percent
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said that Turkey’s growth rate target for 2012 was four percent. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan met Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Emirate airlines plane at Mumbai International Airport
Airlines   Business   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Emirates (airline)		  Newstrack India 
'Emirates Airline contributes $596 million to Indian economy'
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Dubai-based Emirates Airline has contributed $596 million to the Indian economy by way of boosting air transport, manufacturing and services sectors and creating direct... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Security Council Meeting: The situation in the Middle East (Syria) H.E. Mr. Laurent Fabius, FM of France (Presdient of SC for August 2012)  The Independent  Mon 3 Sep 2012
French foreign minister warns Syria over chemical weapons
Laurent Fabius said "our response ... would be massive and blistering". Mr Fabius, speaking on RMC radio, said: "We are discussing this notably with our American and English... (photo: UN Photo / JC McIlwaine)
France   Photos   Syria   Weapons   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Lakhdar Brahimi, newly appointed Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, 24 August, 2012.  BBC News  Mon 3 Sep 2012
Profile: Lakhdar Brahimi
Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League envoy for Syria, brings decades of peacemaking experience to his new role - a mission he has described as "nearly... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Peace   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: Lakhdar Brahimi
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Palestinians filling plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah. -- The Israeli blockade on Gaza has made life more difficult for the inhabitants of the camp. Unemployment levels have increased dramatically, with a large proportion of the residents relying on UNRWA's nutritional and financial assistance.. Photo by AHMED DEEB/WN CounterPunch Mon 3 Sep 2012
Palestine is Drying Up Before Our Eyes
The water crisis in Palestine is 100% human-made, not a climate change catastrophe, not an issue of deforestation or drought. Don’t let the location fool you; as Ziyad... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Human Rights   Israel   Palestine   Photos   Wikipedia: Israeli–Palestinian conflict
In this photo taken Friday, Jan.28, 2011, Egyptian women demonstrate in Alexandria, Egypt. Thousands of Alexandrians met Sunday Jan 30 to pray in downtown Alexandria, a Mediterranean port city that is a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood. After prayers, the crowd marched towards the city's old mosque to pray for the souls of those who died in the protests. BBC News Mon 3 Sep 2012
Egypt's sexual harassment of women 'epidemic'
Campaigners in Egypt say the problem of sexual harassment is reaching epidemic proportions, with a rise in such incidents over the past three months. For many Egyptian... (photo: AP / Tarek Fawzi)
Egypt   Epidemic   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Egyptian revolution   Women
INDIA-FISHERMAN-PULLING-FISHING-BOAT DNA India Mon 3 Sep 2012
No fishing in troubled waters: Vessels return
Due to the stormy conditions in the Arabian sea, over 5,000 fishing vessels have returned to ports along the Karnataka coast over the last two days. Ports in Mangalore,... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Fishing   Karnataka   Photos   Storm   Wikipedia: Fishing
A combined team of paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and Afghan police move toward a compound to search for a suspected weapons cache in the early morning of April 8, 2012, in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The police and paratroopers have been training with each other for several weeks. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod) BBC News Mon 3 Sep 2012
New Zealand confirms Afghanistan pullout plan
New Zealand has formally announced it will pull its troops out of Afghanistan by April 2013. Officials say this is a reflection of "careful logistical planning"... (photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod)
Afghanistan   New Zealand   Photos   Troops   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
vodafone - GSM mobile service provider in India The Guardian Mon 3 Sep 2012
Vodafone, Zain in Middle East partner deal
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone said it has agreed a deal with Kuwait-based telecoms operator Zain that would expand the global telecoms group's presence in the Middle East.... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Photos   Telecoms   Vodafone   Wikipedia: Vodafone   Zain
US Army (USA) Soldiers pulling security for a delegation of US Representatives visiting the Kirkuk Girls School at Kirkuk, Iraq watch as a pair of boys pass by on the way to their school during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Location: The Guardian Mon 3 Sep 2012
Young Iraqis face religious fashion crackdown
... (photo: US DoD)
Fashion   Iraq   Photos   Religion   Wikipedia: Iraq


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In this image made from video and accessed Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, a Syrian rebel fires his weapon at Syrian Army positions during fighting in Aleppo, Syria. Custodian of the custodian of the custodian Al Jazeera
File - In this Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, file photo, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into court in Cairo, Egypt. UK 'fails to freeze' Mubarak-era assets BBC News
File - The President of the United States Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus, commander of International Security Assistance Forces and NATO Troops in Afghanistan, meet at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 20, 2010. US CIA chief Petraeus arrives Monday to cool Israeli ire Debka
Syrian women, who fled their homes in Aleppo, due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, hang their laundry in a field facing the Turkish border, as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Will a buffer zone calm or stoke tensions? Al Jazeera
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Oil in Kurdistan Kurdistan warns Baghdad it will halt oil exports again Reuters
Khaled al Otaiby, an official of the Saudi oil company Aramco watches progress at a rig at the al-Howta oil field near Howta, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 26, 1997. Energy is the big strand in a web of U.S.-Saudi economic ties that has grown in the six years since an American-led army rolled back Iraqi aggression in the Persian Gulf. (AP Photo/John Moore)hg3 U.S. reliance on Saudi Arabian oil picks up pace Business Journal
Emarat , Petrol Pump, Energy, Oil , Fuel , (sv2) Emarat to hand over 74 gas stations in the UAE by September 2012 Gulf News
Gasoline - Gas - Petroleum - Fuel - Oil Oil rises to three-month high Sydney Morning Herald
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh delivering Statement at the fourth Plenary Session of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 21, 2012. Indian PM Likely to Visit Iran Wall Street Journal
Terrorism
Free Syrian Army fighters take cover during fierce fighting against government troops in Idlib, north Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2012. UN envoy Brahimi says Syria mission 'nearly impossible' BBC News
President Barack Obama speaks at Cuyahoga Community College, Thursday, June 14, 2012, in Cleveland. Understanding Obama’s and Romney’s foreign policy differences The Washington Post
British army vehicles block a road on the outskirts of Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, after a British convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. Hundreds of British troops to be questioned over 'weak' war crime allegations The Daily Telegraph
Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh briefing the accompanying media on board flight- India- Politics Assam violence a cause of worry: PM The Siasat Daily
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