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| Palestinians bid farewell to their top poet |
Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah Wednesday to bid farewell to their most famous poet and the author of their declaration of independence.
Mahmoud Darwish died at a United States hospital on Friday following open heart surgery. He was 67.
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 A suicide bomber took the lives of three German soldiers and four Afghan civilians Saturday morning in a Kunduz market, the police informed.The German soldiers were shopping in the town’s market when the bomber detonated his charge, killing the troopers and four shop owners. Dozens of people were injured, some of them being in grave...
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 Pervez Musharraf doesn’t want to leave the leadership of Pakistan and would run for a new mandate in the autumn elections, the Pakistani President said Friday.Also, Musharraf wants the elections to be held without the participation or influence of the former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, which are currently in exile.He...
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 Two Iraqi journalists from ABC were killed Thursday as they were heading home from the office, the head of ABC News David Westin said Friday.The car containing the cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf was stopped by armed men, who forced the journalists out of the car and shot them in cold blood. Terry McCarthy form...
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 Three Iraqi police officers and three US soldiers were killed in the last two days by bomb explosions in different parts of the country, authorities informed Friday.The three killed soldiers were part of a search mission for their missing comrades and died when a roadside bomb exploded Thursday.Three US soldiers were reported missing...
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 Israeli jet fighters bombed again facilities belonging to the Hamas military wing, continuing the campaign began Thursday in response to the heavy rocket fire launched by the militants towards Israel. Five people were killed after F-16 warplanes attacked a building that was used by Hamas as meeting point. One of the dead people was a...
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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed her concern about the recent outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip in talks held with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over the telephone.Rice’s deliverance is part of a long series of criticism expressed by leaders around the globe towards the...
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A convoy carrying Afghan officials in the southern part of the country was the target of a suicide attack, three persons being killed in the blast.The explosion also injured Afghan minister of Information and Culture, Abdul Karim Khurram and governor Assadullah Khalid, government officials reported. The suicide attacker drove his car...
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 A US military base located in Taji came under heavy fire which destroyed one helicopter and damaged nine others, the media reported Thursday.The attack occurred Sunday, but it was until today that the US military reported the event, as no casualties were signaled. The attackers are still unknown.This is the first event of its kind since...
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 Israel decided to respond to the series of attacks launched by the armed wing of Hamas and bombed military facilities in the Gaza City. November 25: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announce the ceasefire agreement, that is kept for six months. Hamas militants broke the agreement Monday and...
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 An armed conflict erupted once more along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan after Afghan militants opened fire unprovoked, Pakistani officials said.According to an official from Islamabad, Afghan forces began to fire at Pakistani positions late Wednesday night for more than an hour and Thursday morning renewed their attack. ...
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 West Wing creator to make Facebook movie
The creator of hit political TV series Aaron Sorkin is to write a movie about the world's most popular social networking site, Facebook, he announced Thursday in a...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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