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 Armenian women pray at Surp Astvadzadzin Church in Istanbul, Turkey, March 27, 2005. Turkey´s mass expulsion of Armenians during World War I - which Armenians say was part of a genocide that claimed 1.5 million lives, is one of the most sensitive s
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 The Independent 
Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
| It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, ... (photo: AP Photo/Osman Orsal)
Vice President Joseph Biden, center, enters a car upon his arrival to Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 8, 2010. Biden arrived to Israel Monday, the first leg of a five-day tour of the Middle East. Biden's trip is the highest-level visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories yet by an Obama administration official.
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 Al Jazeera 
Fresh Middle East talks hit a wall
| Israel's move to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has threatened to sabotage newly agreed indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority before they can even begin. | George Mitch... (photo: AP / Baz Ratner)
An Afghan boy looks back as U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010.  Asia Times 
Marjah, the city that never was
| By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logist... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder)
Afghanistan   Defence   NATO   Photos   US  
Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Rupert Murdoch gestures while speaking during a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009. Business participants will search for solutions to the financial crisis with some 40 world leaders, but without the top finance officials of the new U.S. administration who are occupied by the crisis or by the confirmation process at h  The Boston Globe 
Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
| ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday called censorship counterproductive and urged Arab leaders to allow their citizens the freedom to unleash their creativity. | The chairman a... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Arab   Business   Censorship   Emirates   Photos  
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Rice fields in West Africa (file photo) Benin wants to quit importing rice by 2011 IRINnews
GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon"
web | JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast ... (photo: IRIN News / Anna Jefferys)
Forecast   Photos   Price   Producing   Rice  
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. BBC News
Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead'
| US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that "hard fighting" lies ahead, in his first visit to Afghanistan since the launch of a major offensive there. |... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   S Asia   US   War  
An Iraqi family returns to their village in Burah, Diyala Province, after being displaced for months by insurgents IRINnews
IRAQ: IDPs returning to Diyala Province in increasing numbers
web | Photo: jamesdale10/Flickr BAGHDAD, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - The security situation in Iraq's northeastern province of Diyala is slowly improving and thousands of displ... (photo: IRIN News / jamesdale10)
Baghdad   Iraq   Mideast   People   Photos  
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the 2010 National Defense Authorization Budget Request May 13, 2009, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Star Tribune
Gates praises troops in hard-hit battle unit in southern Afghanistan
| FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin... (photo: US Navy file / Chad J. McNeeley)
Afghanistan   Defense   Gates   MIlitary   Photos  
President of the republic of Kenya Mwai Kibaki Kenya Broadcasting Corp
Kibaki urges IGAD to assess Sudan accord
Written By:PPS   , Posted: Tue, Mar 09, 2010 | President Mwai Kibaki Tuesday called on IGAD member states to candidly and honestly assess the challeng... (photo: Creative Commons / DEMOSH)
Kenya   Photos   Political   President   Sudan  
Residents walk past a burnt car in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it. ABC News
Nigeria Urged to Investigate Religious Violence
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer | JOS, Nigeria March 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press | A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, ab... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell)
Nigeria   Photos   Religious   Violence   Woman  
 Democratic presidential hopeful, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, speaks at the "Take Back America" political conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)   (js1) Merinews
Americans: Dont quit Afghanistan
SOME VOICES in the US Congress are crying hoarse that the President order the American forces to pull out of Afghanistan within 30 days. if that entails danger to US... (photo: AP/Charles Dharapak)
Afghanistan   Kucinich   Military   Photos   US  
Israel's President Shimon Peres is seen during a meeting with the leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Lieberman, not seen, at Peres' residency in Jerusalem, Thursday Feb. 19, 2009. Far-right Israeli politician Lieberman endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister on Thursday, all but guaranteeing that Netanyahu will be the country's next le m&c
Israeli President calls for "total" isolation of Ahmadinejad
| Jerusalem - The anti-Israel rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is only a cover for his ambitions for Iranian hegemony in the Middle East, Israeli Preside... (photo: AP / Ronen Zvulun, pool)
Iran   Israel   Jerusalem   Photos   politics  
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of the U.S. Forces Afghanistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan. The Columbus Dispatch
U.S. general in Afghanistan has eyes on Kandahar next
| KABUL - NATO-led troops are wrapping up the biggest military offensive of the Afghan war and laying the groundwork for the next push into the Taliban heartland of Kanda... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Afghanistan   Kabul   Nato   Photos   US  
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, walks with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The Guardian
Biden urges Israel to take risks for peace
| JERUSALEM (AP) — Vice President Joseph Biden has told Israel that the U.S. is willing to stand by those who will "take risks for peace." | Biden also told Israeli Pri... (photo: AP / Debbie Hill, Pool)
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In front of the pictures of the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech in a ceremony of 19th death anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Ahmadinejad, known for vitriolic anti-Israeli rhetoric, has again predicted the demise of Israel, according to Iran's IRNA news ag
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- Command role for Aussies in Afghanistan
- Gaza fishermen still under Israeli fire
- Iraqis vote: turnout huge, despite the risk of violence
- Israel and Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions
In this photo released by the Australian Defense Department, an Australian Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicle (SRV) patrols outside the perimeter of a forward operating base in Afghanistan Sept. 17, 2005. An elite Australian commando was injured and an Afghani soldier killed when their patrol clashed with insurgents in Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. The clash came less than a month after a group of 190 Australian special forces commandos began arriving in Afghanistan to bolster international efforts to restore law and order amid an upsurge in violence blamed on the al-Qaida terror network and supporters of the ousted Taliban regi
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- Rupert Murdoch at Abu Dhabi Arab media summit says censorshi
- Official: Saudis have plenty of oil capacity as demand retur
- Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
- Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Rupert Murdoch gestures while speaking during a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009. Business participants will search for solutions to the financial crisis with some 40 world leaders, but without the top finance officials of the new U.S. administration who are occupied by the crisis or by the confirmation process at h
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- Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
- Syria wants civilian nuclear energy
- Abu Dhabi summit debates global media challenges
- Abu Dhabi International Book Fair concludes with big success
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (waving), President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is shown with his delegation in the General Assembly Hall during the general debate of the Assembly's sixty- fourth session, 23 September, 2009.
Ongoing Iran diplomacy needed
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- Egypt to Pay for Restoration of All Synangogues
- Gazan Hairdressers Protest Hamas Restrictions
- Israeli Group: Police Improperly Arrest Arab Kids
- Syria wants civilian nuclear energy
Rice fields in West Africa (file photo) Benin wants to quit importing rice by 2011
GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon"
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- Gates walks town that was a 'no-go zone' weeks ago
- British woman killed in Afghanistan Sarah Bryant 'inadeq
- Indian kids have no school to go in Abu Dhabi
- Abu Dhabi International Book Fair concludes with big success
 Armenian women pray at Surp Astvadzadzin Church in Istanbul, Turkey, March 27, 2005. Turkey´s mass expulsion of Armenians during World War I - which Armenians say was part of a genocide that claimed 1.5 million lives, is one of the most sensitive s
Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
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- Marjah, the city that never was
- Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
- Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
- Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
An Afghan boy looks back as U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010.
Marjah, the city that never was
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- Egypt Midfielder Hossam Ghaly Tests Positive For Banned Subs
- Montpellier’s Karim Ait Fana Rejects Morocco To Focus On F
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- Porto's Ferreira plays down Fabregas loss
Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas
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