 | UPS cargo plane crashes near Dubai airport
Herald Tribune | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. There was no immediate word on casualties. AC = 123... (photo: Creative Commons / Cubbie_n_Vegas) | |
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 Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
Khaleej Times WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama called his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday to thank him for supporting current Middle East peace efforts, the White House said. | 'Sarkozy affirmed h... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon) |
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 New Yorkers' Support for Islamic Center Is Uncertain, Poll Finds
The New York Times | Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who say ... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) |
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 Obama's Post-Iraq World
The New York Times | LONDON — Europe adjusted long ago, but not without pain, to its diminished place in world affairs. After Suez for the British, after Algeria for the French, even ... (photo: AP / Alex Brandon) |
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 Accounts Differ on Fatal NATO Strike on Afghans
The New York Times | KABUL, Afghanistan — Airstrikes by NATO forces that killed 12 people on Thursday in northern Afghanistan have produced sharply conflicting accounts as to whether ... (photo: AP / Brennan Linsley) |
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 Gates Lands in Afghanistan
The New York Times | KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on an unannounced visit Thursday for meetings with American military commanders and President ... (photo: AP / Jim Watson, Pool) |
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 U.S. Formally Begins a New Era in Iraq
The New York Times | BAGHDAD — The United States began a fragile new era in its turbulent history with Iraq on Wednesday as American political and military leaders marked the official... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban) |
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 Why Ramadan in Egypt means overeating and John Travolta on TV
The Christian Science Monitor Cairo | During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Muslims are supposed to refrain from eating, drinking, and sexual activity (among other things) while the sun is out. Al... (photo: AP / Matt Sayles) |
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 'Strongly left-wing' big brother Miliband - then and now
The Daily Mail | Labour leadership contender David Miliband didn't get into Oxford on academic merit, says one of his old teachers at Haverstock School in London. | Oscar Gregan, who ta... (photo: AP / Katie Collins, pool) |
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 "Tony Blair: I cried for Iraq war victims"
Herald Tribune | LONDON - Tony Blair's long-awaited memoir says the former British prime minister doesn't regret the Iraq war - although he wept for its victims - and carries revelation... (photo: AP / Gali Tibbon, Pool) |
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