(AP) Israel
says the main goal of its ground offensive against Gaza's
Hamas rulers is to end years of rocket fire on its southern
towns. But perhaps an equally important, if unspoken,
objective is to wipe away the errors of Israel's 2006 war in
Lebanon.
More than 230 people have been killed and up to 800 wounded
in an extensive Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip on
Saturday, Palestinian medical sources said.
Source:International Herald Tribune | Date: Friday, December
12, 2008
An
odd thing happened the other day in the Arab world.Amid all
the recent backsliding on free speech and the general
disinterest in democracy among Middle Eastern governments
Soviet condemnation of Iraq was
intended to give and has given a new impetus to
apprent Soviet-American collaboration in the
international arena. If a colution to the crisis is
to be sought through non-violent means, it might be
through an international conference on the Middle
East.
Discover-2/11/2008|The Phoenician culture vanished
from the Mediterranean following the fall of Carthage in 146
BC, when the Romans razed the city and (according to legend)
salted the earth, but the Phoenician people didn’t fade
away. A new
genetic analysis shows that 1 in 17 men in the
Mediterranean region have Phoenician DNA, and must be
descended from those ancient seafarers.
AFP|Iran will continue to enrich uranium
while there is no legally-binding international assurance of
a nuclear fuel supply, the country's envoy to the UN's
nuclear energy watchdog said Thursday.
Associated Press|
India banned smoking in public places on Thursday, leaving
public health officials with a much tougher task: get the
nation's estimated 120 million smokers to stub out their
cigarettes.
DAMASCUS - Syria's leadership expects the chances for
peace with neighbouring Israel to be worse under Zipi Livni
than those under outgoing prime minister Ehud Omert, the
official government Syrian daily Tishrin said Wednesday.
DAMASCUS - Syria is hoping to welcome six million
tourists a year over the next three years and generate 3.4
billion dollars in tourism revenues, the official SANA news
agency said on Wednesday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad railed against "Zionist murderers" in a speech
to the United Nations on Tuesday and vowed to resist
American bullying and defend Iran's right to nuclear power.More
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped
Afghanistan's top diplomat to Pakistan on Monday after
killing his driver, underscoring worsening security in the
nuclear-armed country two days after a suicide bomber killed
53 people.
British Airways said it had suspended flights More
Associated
Press |21/9/2008 -A massive
suicide truck bomb devastated the heavily guarded Marriott
Hotel in Pakistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 40
people and wounding at least 250. Officials feared there
were dozens more dead inside the burning building.More
Associated
Press |21/9/2008 -A massive
suicide truck bomb devastated the heavily guarded Marriott
Hotel in Pakistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 40
people and wounding at least 250. Officials feared there
were dozens more dead inside the burning building.More
WASHINGTON (AFP) |16/9/2008— Former US
secretaries of state on Monday urged the next US president
to work closely with key allies, engage with Iran, and avoid
ruptures with awkward partners Russia and China.
Damascus, 12 Sept. (AKI) - Syrian authorities are
considering a change of strategy in their fight against
prostitution by easing the sentences given to prostitutes
and punishing the clients.More
By PAMELA HESS and MATTHEW LEE, Associated
Press|10/9/2008 -Western
officials are closely watching signs that North Korea's
unpredictable dictator Kim Jong Il may be gravely ill.
Incapacity of the More
BARVIKHA, Russia (AFP)|9/9/2008
-
President Dmitry Medvedev
pledged Monday to withdraw all
Russian troops from
Georgia apart from
Abkhazia and
South Ossetia whose
independence he maintained was
"irrevocable". More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Sunday seized
control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac, in what could be the biggest federal bailout in U.S.
history in a bid to support the U.S. housing market and ward
off more global financial market turbulence.More
JERUSALEM (Reuters)|7/9/2008 -
Israeli police said on Sunday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
should face criminal charges, issuing a non-binding
recommendation in a corruption scandal driving him from
office in the midst of peace talks with the Palestinians.More
By Jeff Mason CEDARBURG, Wisconsin
(Reuters) | 6/9/2008- Presidential rivals John McCain
and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their
party conventions, clashed More
The Guardian|5/9/2008-Syria today said
a round of indirect talks with Israel had been postponed
because of the resignation of the chief Israeli negotiator,
as More
Mustafa
Hamido,Aleppous Exclusive|03/09/2008
- A British women claims that she is
innocent after she has accused of
having sex on one of Dubai’s
beaches. According to Photos have
been getten by Aleppous.com , Ms
Palmer was having sex in contrast to
her claims.She claims that it was
hugging and kissing.
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