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Fri. May 16, 2008

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An Arab League delegation is expected to reach a deal on Lebanon, defusing a crisis that led to six days of armed conflict. On Wednesday, the US-backed ...

... on Hizbollah's communications network and reinstate Beirut's airport chief, believed to have links to the group, which is supported by Syria and Iran. ...

By ROBERT F. WORTH and NADA BAKRI Beirut, Lebanon - The warring political camps in Lebanon agreed Thursday to hold renewed talks in a deal negotiated by ...

The agreement also appeared to be a setback for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, vocal opponents of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. Even the makeup of the Arab delegation ...

Syria's removal alienated its many allies inside Lebanon and prompted it to sponsor what looks like a campaign of sabotage, including assassinations. ...

Meanwhile, Hizbullah's lock-step allegiance to Shia Iran frightened not just Lebanese nationalists, but also the predominantly Sunni Arab world and Western ...

Qatar's main index jumped above 12000 points for the first time in almost 2-1/2 years, led by Qatar Islamic Bank and Qatar National Bank. ...

Oman's benchmark ended down as Galfar engineering & Construction Co dropped almost 2 percent after it reported lower-than-expected first-quarter profit, ...

With its efforts to isolate Hezbollah in Lebanon and backing of Israel's disastrous war in Lebanon, we live with the result that Hezbollah is stronger than ...

I would go on to point out that when it comes to talking to Syria, Israeli leaders would seem to agree with Barack Obama and not President Bush. ...

Wael Ismail was born in the Bekaa refugee camp in Jordan and knows Palestine only as a concept based on pictures and television. But his burning passion is ...

Nearly 600 men, women and children demonstrated in the Jordanian capital Amman on Thursday evening, demanding the right to return. ...

We highly appreciate Saudi Arabia's longstanding support for development projects in Syria and investment in people," said Adham Musallam, acting WFP Syria ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a donation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of 680 metric tons of dates, worth $605000, ...

Today, Israel is still at war with Syria and Lebanon and locked into a bitter conflict with the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank. ...

The explanation that Israelis usually give for the failure to achieve peace in the Middle East can be summed up in two words: Arab intransigence. ...

... conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. The PLO recognised Israel; Israel recognised the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people; ...

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... President George W. Bush ended a three-day visit to Israel on Friday and headed for Saudi Arabia, where he will continue a tour of the Middle East. ...
CANNES -- filmmakers picked for the Middle East International Film Festival could hit the jackpot. Festival reps in Cannes on Friday announced several new ...
George W Bush has left Israel for Saudi Arabia on the next leg of his Middle East tour. As the US president arrived in Riyadh, the White House announced ...
Even as we console ourselves with the fact that the Bush presidency is entering its twilight months, we can't help but wish, as artist/political activist ...

On the second day of his Middle East trip, Bush toured the historic Dead Sea fortress Masada before returning here for an address to Israel's Knesset that, ...
ABC's Eloise Harper reports: Senator Hillary Clinton's motorcade traveled down a dirt road in Bath, South Dakota into Jones' Farm Thursday afternoon so she ...
by Eric Westervelt Israeli soldiers inspect cars at a checkpoint near the northern West Bank village of Beit Furik. Palestinian Ayesha Abdul Karim passes ...
(Reuters) - US President George W. Bush arrived in the Middle East on Wednesday facing broad scepticism over his chances of securing an Israeli-Palestinian ...
By Mark Silva and Joel Greenberg | Tribune correspondents Jerusalem - Lacking any short-range hope for peace in the Middle East, President George W. Bush ...
At every step of the way, the Bush administration has not missed an opportunity to bolster Iran's position in the Middle East. It destroyed Iran's principal ...
On the second day of his Middle East trip, Bush toured the historic Dead Sea fortress Masada before returning here for a scheduled address to the Israeli ...
The current account deficit with the Middle East has been surging on increasing imports of oil and gas from the region. The trade deficit with the Middle ...
Beijing, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Sun Bigan, China's Special Envoy on the Middle East, will attend the Palestinian Investor's Conference held in Bethlehem, ...
Yet we must also look for new ways to expand human capital throughout the Middle East." He bemoaned the fact that there are still many people in the region ...
Bush's only reference to ongoing peace talks came near the end of his speech as the president painted a vision of the Middle East in another 60 years when ...
By Matt Spetalnick and Tabassum Zakaria Jerusalem (Reuters) - US President George W. Bush offered a peace prophecy for the Middle East on Thursday in which ...
The office will focus on selling mortgages to the Middle East's 45000 expatriate Australians and New Zealanders as well as providing export and trade ...
Dubai: US President George W. Bush's three-day Middle East visit has been viewed sceptically in the Arab media, as it questioned whether he could succeed in ...
Jerusalem (AP) -- President Bush is using Israel's 60th anniversary as a cause for optimism that democratic change can happen in the Mideast, where he is ...
Vietnam plans to raise exports to Africa, the Middle East and South Asia to $2.3 billion this year, an increase of 33 percent from last year, ...
The center is under siege in Lebanon and across the Middle East as the region becomes more polarized between Iranian-backed extremists and US-backed forces. ...
... of a Mideast peace agreement. But the mere professing of good intentions will never be sufficient to make peace. "I just don't see how the Middle East ...
The past two years have seen the beginnings of a transformation in media in the Gulf, helped by rulers willing to risk a hands-off approach towards ...
Bush's visit here, his first stop on a five-day, three country Middle East tour, began with a greeting at the airport in Tel Aviv by a 50-person military ...
When the subject of Asian Pacific Islander culture comes up, the Middle East is not the first region that comes to mind, which is exactly why the organizers ...

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