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Cost   Drinks   Dubai   Photos   Prices   Wikipedia: United Arab Emirates  
Dubai Refreshments finds high sugar prices bittersweet
| Dubai: Despite recent decreases in the cost of sugar, one local soft drinks manufacturer says the commodity is still expensive enough to justify last year's 50 per cent price increase. | Dubai Refre... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
Gulf News
An anti-government protester chants slogans during a demonstration in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011
Cairo   Egypt   Photos   Protesters   Wikipedia: Port Said Stadium clashes  
Cairo protesters seek early vote, clash with police
| Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian Interior Ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volle... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Khaleej Times
Policemen place a Brazilian flag at a top point of the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Rio's most dangerous slum that was the backbone of the city's biggest drug gang was taken by 2,600 police and soldiers Sunday, an unprecedented accomplishment by authorities in their fight to secure this seaside metropolis that will host the 2016 Olympics. Murders soar in Brazil city as police strike
| The Brazilian government has sent federal troops to the state of Bahia to restore order after a labour strike by police opened the door to a crime wave, authorities said. | By Saturday, th... (photo: AP / Silvia Izquierdo) Al Jazeera
Brazil   Crime   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Crime in Brazil  
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, right, speaks with Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos during a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Greece faces 'deadline to clinch bailout'
| Greece has only one day left to clinch a eurozone bailout and a bond swap with creditors to manage its crushing debt repayments, its finance minister has said, warning that talks were "on a knife ed... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo) Al Jazeera
Debt   Finance   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek government debt crisis  
Top Stories
Lone Pine Peak, just left of Mt. Whitney and the rest of the Sierra Nevada, dominates the views west of town Will Republicans suggest an economic cure in Nevada?
| - As the Republican candidates depart the southeast United States to head to Nevada, one topic seems to have escaped their attention entirely: a credible economic cure ... (photo: Creative Commons / Bobak Ha'Eri) Al Jazeera
Economy   Nevada   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Nevada  
Eyes specialty hospital in Jordan for Iraqi eyes peoples surgery Jordan hospitals struggle with Libya patients
" />" /> | Jordan's hospitals are struggling to cope with thousands of Libyans who were injured during the country's uprising. | Some of the Libyan patients are... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny) Al Jazeera
Arab   Jordan   Libya   Photos   Wikipedia: Jordan  
Opposition demonstrators carry a banner reading "Dissenters' march" during an anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Police thwarted an anti-Kremlin protest organized by chess great Garry Kasparov's opposition group Sunday, seizing demonstrators and shoving them into trucks. Later About 50 protesters, one with a banner of Kasparov's group United Civil Front, which is part of Other Russia, gathered at another site in central Moscow and marched about 1 kilometer (half a mile) along a major street, shouting slogans such as "Russia without Putin!" before they disper Rival Putin rallies hold protests in Moscow
| Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in the Russian capital to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's grip on power, a month before he s... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev) Al Jazeera
Moscow   Photos   Protesters   Russia    
Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada Canadian PM Stephen Harper looks to diversify oil exports with trip to China
| TORONTO - Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" ... (photo: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 / ) Star Tribune
Canada   China   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: Stephen Harper  
Palestinians receive medical care at the al-Najar Hospital in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip. after one Palestinian was killed and seven injured by overnight Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the sites were targeted in response to the firing of a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the city of Beersheva. (Photo By Ahmed DEEb/ WN) Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli airstrike
| Two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded by Israeli airstrikes, medical workers said, only hours after a visit by the UN chief to the territo... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Al Jazeera
Gaza   Israel   Palestinians   Photos   Wikipedia: GazaIsrael conflict  
File - In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian photographers take pictures of burnt police vehicles, after a weeklong military assault that the government said was aimed at rooting out "terrorists," in Hama city, Syria, on Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising. Syria: The revenge of Hama 30 years on
| - On February 2, 1982, a state declared war on its own citizens. It did what it did and thought it won. On February 2, 2012, Hama is exacting its revenge on the Assads,... (photo: AP / SANA) Al Jazeera
Democracy   Human Rights   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Hama massacre  
Vitaly Churkin, U.N. Russian Ambassador speaks at a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 during emergency consultations on the conflict between Russia and Georgia after France requested discussion of a new draft plan to end the hostiliti Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a... (photo: AP / David Karp) The Star
Arab   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
110212-F-7049G-408       U.S. Army Pfc. Sean Murphy retrieves his parachute after jumping out of a C-130 Hercules aircraft over Sicily Drop Zone during large-scale airdrop training with airmen at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Feb. 12, 2011.  Murphy is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's Company C, 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion.  DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Samuel W. Goodman, U.S. Air Force.  (Released) U.S. Fears Iran's Links to al Qaeda
By SIOBHAN GORMAN | WASHINGTON—U.S. officials say they believe Iran recently gave new freedoms to as many as five top al Qaeda operatives who have been under house ... (photo: US DoD / Airman 1st Class Samuel W. Goodman, U.S. Air Force) Wall Street Journal
Iran   Photos   Qaeda   Terror   Wikipedia: Al-Qaeda  
Oil Business
Iran threatens to hit any country used to attack its soil
Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
110211-A-xxxxW-003       U.S. Army soldiers fire a 60 mm mortar round during Cobra Gold on Pulon Range, Thailand, on Feb. 11, 2011.  Cobra Gold is a joint forces, multinational exercise designed to ensure regional peace and stability.  DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew E. Winstead, U.S. Army.  (Released)
Iran raid likely to drag in US, hurt global economy
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IMF, Saudi in bid to fix debt crisis
UAE firms 'may lose out to foreign competitors'
Oman Insurance eyes expansion of products, services
New decision aims to improve investment environment
110211-A-xxxxW-003       U.S. Army soldiers fire a 60 mm mortar round during Cobra Gold on Pulon Range, Thailand, on Feb. 11, 2011.  Cobra Gold is a joint forces, multinational exercise designed to ensure regional peace and stability.  DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew E. Winstead, U.S. Army.  (Released)
Iran raid likely to drag in US, hurt global economy
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Politics Education
Mubarak may be moved to prison hospital
It’s risky to attack Iran: Obama
Solution on Syria Remains Elusive for White House
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Oxford should refuse the Iron Lady thi
President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the monthly jobs report, Friday, July 8, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
Obama's aversion to U.S. drilling hurts
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Sunshine Cottage students explore a world of arts
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Indian-American student triggers Harvard probe
Engineering M,Sc./M.Tech, Ph.D., holders Vaccancy @ King Fai
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Health Terrorism
Black magician stabs man 'to cure illness'
Americans talk about an Israeli strike on Iran, but prepare
Four reasons to watch the Super Bowl
EU debt crisis at centre of Saudi-IMF talks
Palestinians receive medical care at the al-Najar Hospital in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip. after one Palestinian was killed and seven injured by overnight Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the sites were targeted in response to the firing of a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the city of Beersheva. (Photo By Ahmed DEEb/ WN)
Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli airstrike
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After UN veto, US floats coalition on Syria
US warns of 'brutal civil war' in Syria
After UN veto, US floats coalition on Syria
Wave of terror feared for Syrians
110721-A-DK678-581       A U.S. Army soldier throws a grappling hook to clear a potential mine field before advancing during a field training exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., on July 21, 2011.  The soldier is with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.  DoD photo by Sgt. Mike MacLeod, U.S. Army.  (Released)
Experts Debate Facts, Future Of Afghan War
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