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Report: Palestinian organizations use U.S. funding to demonize Israel
Israel   Palestinian   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Palestine		  The Examiner 
Report: Palestinian organizations use U.S. funding to demonize Israel
Wed 22 May 2013
On Tuesday, a report presented to Congress by Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor showed that several NGOs (“non-government organizations”) in the region that receive U.S. tax dollars are hostile... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
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Oil Prices Drop Below $96 After Gasoline Stocks Jump
Wed 22 May 2013
U.S. crude futures prices fell below $96 a barrel on Wednesday after an unexpected increase in U.S. gasoline stockpiles ahead of the summer driving season in the world's largest oil consumer. U.S.... (photo: WN / RTayco)
Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN  Huffington Post  Tue 21 May 2013
Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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File - An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013.  San Francisco Chronicle  Tue 21 May 2013
Syria, Israel exchange fire over border
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
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As a Blackhawak helicopter rumbles overhead, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter speaks with BGen Ron Lewis, right, at Gambrei during a visit to forward bases in Afghanistan, May 13, 2013. CounterPunch Mon 20 May 2013
Al Qaeda: Enemy or Asset?
A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has... (photo: US DoD / Glenn Fawcett)
Al Qaeda   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Al-Qaeda
Army launch recruitment drive for 10,000 new young soldiers ahead of redundancies The Daily Telegraph Mon 20 May 2013
Army launch recruitment drive for 10,000 new young soldiers ahead of redundancies
The Army has launched a campaign to sign up 10,000 new recruits just weeks before thousands of experienced soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan will lose... (photo: US DoD / Bobby J. Yarbrough)
Afghanistan   Iraq   Photos   Recruitment   Wikipedia: Afghanistan
Mount Everest (sl1) Hong Kong Standard Sun 19 May 2013
Everest joy for Saudi woman with altitude
Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are... (photo: Creative Commons )
Everest   Nepal   Photos   Saudi   Wikipedia: Mount Everest   Woman
Egyptian soldiers keep guard as heavy equipment destroy smuggling tunnels beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2013. Egypt will not tolerate a two-way flow of smuggled arms with the Gaza Strip that is destabilising its Sinai peninsula, a senior aide to its Islamist president said, explaining why Egyptian forces flooded sub-border tunnels last week.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN The Guardian Sun 19 May 2013
The KFC smugglers of Gaza
People are paying a fortune to have fast-food chicken brought in from Egypt in underground tunnels. But local food-stall owners aren't happy about it Link to video: KFC... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Gaza   Palestinians   Photos   Wikipedia: Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika speaks at the Supreme Court in Algiers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Algeria's president, 72, who led his oil-rich and gas-rich North African nation out of a bloody Islamic insurgency, started clearing the way Wednesday to give himself a third term in office, announcing plans to abolish limits that would have prevented his re-election. Daily Press Sun 19 May 2013
With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Three weeks after being rushed to hospital in Paris, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has disappeared from sight, leaving behind a country... (photo: AP)
Algeria   Business   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 The Siasat Daily Sat 18 May 2013
Ahead of Karzai visit, India says willing to discuss security concerns
New Delhi, May 18: Ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit, India said Saturday it was ready to discuss and consider Afghanistan's reported request for arms... (photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid)
Business   Delhi   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Hamid Karzai
Iranian women walk past electoral campaign posters of former parliament speaker and presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi, in Tadrish bazaar in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 11, 2009. The Daily Telegraph Fri 17 May 2013
Iranian cleric says women cannot be president as 30 females try to have names added ...
A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said on Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis)
Election   Iran   Photos   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013   Women


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Chairman of the Iran's Experts Assembly Hashemi Rafsanjani, during a seasonal meeting of the assembly, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. State television says former President Hashemi Rafsanjani has lost his position as the head of the Experts Assembly, a powerful clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader. Iran's cunning Rafsanjani seeks one more shot The Guardian
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Israeli soldiers work on top of a tank in a position in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, on the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Israel warns Syria of 'consequences' if Golan fire continues The Siasat Daily
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war The Guardian
Threat from within: U.S. military braced for surge in Taliban ‘insider’ attacks Threat from within: U.S. military braced for surge in Taliban ‘insider’ attacks The Washington Times
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Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a brief news conference with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, before their meeting Palestinians have little faith in Kerry effort WPXI
Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war The Guardian
People run away from tear gas during a demonstration against the deployment of 11,000 police and soldiers in the city of Kairouan, to prevent the ultraconservative Muslim group Ansar al-Shariah from holding its annual conference, Sunday May 19, 2013. Tunisian police clash with Salafists over banning of annual congress The Daily Telegraph
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