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Security around UN HQ in Beirut tightened
Attack   Beirut   Germany   Photos   Security   Wikipedia: United Nations Headquarters		  m&c 
Security around UN HQ in Beirut tightened
Mon 3 Oct 2011
Beirut- Security measures have been tightened around the United Nations headquarters in Beirut to avert any possible terrorist attack, a... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
Rafiq Hariri
Mideast   Politics   Lebanon   Wikipedia: Assassination of Rafic Hariri   Photos		  The Guardian 
Lebanon analysis: Fear of war as Beirut leaps into the unknown
Wed 12 Jan 2011
Coalition's collapse is a sharp reminder of the poisonous legacy of prime minister Rafiq Hariri's murder in 2005 Hezbollah flags flutter in Beirut tonight over a marble plaque in tribute to fighters... (photo: WN / Manuela Paraipan)
Syria forces bombard Homs, UN condemns  Zeenews  Thu 9 Feb 2012
Syria forces bombard Homs, UN condemns
Amman/Beirut: Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end... (photo: UN / UN)
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People watch the televised speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a cafe in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, June 24, 2011.  The Siasat Daily  Wed 8 Feb 2012
Nasrallah calls for unity among Muslims
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has called for Islamic unity and praised Iran for its support of the Lebanese resistance movement, Press TV reports. In a speech commemorating the... (photo: AP / Mohammed Zaatari)
Hezbollah   Muslims   Nasrallah   Photos   Wikipedia: Hassan Nasrallah
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File - President Barack Obama boards Marine One at Kansas City International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri for flight to Osawatomie, Kansas, Dec. 6, 2011. Khaleej Times Wed 15 Feb 2012
In growing Syria crisis, Obama has few options
WASHINGTON - Eleven months into the bloodiest uprising of the 'Arab Spring,' US President Barack Obama is staking his Syria policy on a fragile and untested international... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Democracy   Photos   Syria   Washington   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Syrian uprising
Master-at-Arms assigned to Mobile Security Detachment Two Four (MSD-24) aboard USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO 193) stand watch on the focsle as the ship transit through the Strait of Hormuz.. KDVR Tue 14 Feb 2012
U.S. carrier crosses Hormuz amid rising Gulf tensions
STRAIT OF HORMUZ, ON BOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Reuters) - A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday more... (photo: US Navy / Photographer's Mate 1st Class Aaron Ansarov)
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Bashar Jafa’ari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, addresses a meeting of the General Assembly on the situation in his country, 13 February, 2012. Jakarta Globe Tue 14 Feb 2012
Syria rejects UN charges as Homs battered
Syria flatly rejected UN charges of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, even as monitors said troops killed at least six civilians in the heaviest shelling of the protest... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Syrian uprising
Palestinians walk at a street during cold winds and sand storms in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on February 8, 2012. Photo by Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN Khaleej Times Tue 14 Feb 2012
Gaza power grinds to a halt for lack of fuel
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories ' Gaza sole power plant ground to a halt on Tuesday after it ran out of diesel, an energy authority official said, calling on Egypt to... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Fuel   Gaza   Photos   Power   Wikipedia: Blockade of the Gaza Strip
Syrian regime supporters flash the V-victory sign as they hold up a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria. Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. Jakarta Globe Tue 14 Feb 2012
Syrian Forces Start New Attacks On Opposition
Amman/Beirut. Syrian government forces attacked opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on several fronts on Tuesday, sending residents fleeing from one town near the... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
Photos   Politics   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: February 2012 bombardment of Homs
In this image from amateur video a youth is claimed to lie bleeding in a square in Homs, Syria Monday Aug 22 2011 after shots were fired at protesters against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Jakarta Globe Tue 14 Feb 2012
Activists: Syrian Rebels Repel Attack on Key Town
Beirut. Syrian rebels have repelled a push by government tanks into a central town held by forces fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime in an 11-month conflict that... (photo: AP)
Activists   Photos   Rebels   Syria   Wikipedia: February 2012 bombardment of Homs


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File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanks the soldiers of the 101st Aviation Division and their families during a speech at Fort Campbell Afghan leader to push for access to Taliban in Pakistan Daily Press
President Barack Obama sends a tweet during a "Twitter Town Hall" in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 6, 2011. David Cameron and Barack Obama discuss Syria sanctions The Independent
In this Feb. 13, 2012 photo, Indian police forensics experts investigate the scene after an explosion tore through a car belonging to the Israel Embassy in New Delhi, India. Indian investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to the car in the heart of New Delhi in an attack the Jewish state blamed on Iran or its proxies.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) Israel 'unlikely to strike back after embassy blasts' The Daily Telegraph
Museum in the Ninth Fort. As of early 2007, only the Ninth Fort had been completely renovated. It is now devoted to the Holocaust and Lithuania's occupations by the Nazis and the Soviets On Iran, a stark choice The Los Angeles Times
The Union Home Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram . Well-trained person carried out the terror attack: Chidambaram New Delhi, Feb 14 (PTI): Home Minister ... The Telegraph India
Security council meeting on Syria 9 yes 2 no 4 abstain UN says Syria encouraged by Russia, China veto Khaleej Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks during a session of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Netanyahu Blames Iran-Backed Terrorism for India, Georgia Car-Bomb Attacks Bloomberg
Individuals believed to be from the Israeli Embassy, foreground left, look on after an explosion tore through a car belonging to the Israel Embassy, center, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Israel blames Iran for embassy attacks Al Jazeera
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Old age people-senior citizen-woman-India. ASIA: Isolation, poverty loom for an aging population IRINnews
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (right) along with General Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff (left), meet with the Turkish Minister of Defense Ismet Yilmaz at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. on November 1 2011. During the meeting Secretary Panetta expressed his concern for Turkey after the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey on October 23, 2011. (DoD photo by Erin Kirk-Cuomo)(Released) Panetta defends military budget plan Breitbart
US to discuss trade, Syria and human rights with Xi US to discuss trade, Syria and human rights with Xi Taipei Times
A Lebanese Swedish woman cries as she is being evacuated from Lebanon with her family, on buses organized by the Swedish embassy, from a road intersection , leading out of the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. About 850 Swedes among about 5,000 in Lebanon have been evacuated, most to Aleppo in northern Syria. Westerners fled by land, sea and air as Israel launched waves of bombings that hit south Beirut, the border and the eastern city of Baalbek in the early hours Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Syrians trade blame over Aleppo bombings Al Jazeera
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the President of the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Hu Jintao, at a joint press conference, in New Delhi on November 21, 2006 - india - hires - am1 Asia giants join Iran diplomacy as sanctions hurt trade Indian Express
Wheat plants displaying symptoms of take-all root disease, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici. Iranian trader keen on wheat imports from India The Times of India
Kodak Shop Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks onstage prior to speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. Iraq's Sunni MPs lift their boycott of Maliki cabinet The Independent
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