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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the President of Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Karzai exchanging the singed documents of an agreement on Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India, in New Delhi on October 04, 2011.
Afghanistan   India   Mining   Wikipedia: Afghanistan–India relations   Photos		  Mining Weekly 
India-Afghanistan mining collaboration: exuberance to reality checks
Thu 23 May 2013
KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - The exuberance over India and Afghanistan collaborating in the minerals and metals industries was giving way to a reality check as revealed during Afghan President Hamid... (photo: PIB of India / PHOTODIVISION )
Police and forensic officers near the scene of an attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people injured near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013.
Crime   London   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: 2013 Woolwich attack		  CNN 
London attack: Terrorists targeting soldiers at home again?
Thu 23 May 2013
May 23, 2013 -- Updated 0227 GMT (1027 HKT) London (CNN) -- Security experts are starting to analyze events leading up to the horrific cleaver attack of a man believed to be a British soldier on the... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN  CNTV  Thu 23 May 2013
Egypt reopens Gaza border crossing after soldiers released
GAZA, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian authorities reopened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven kidnapped Egyptian soldiers were released. "The crossing opened its gates in... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Gaza   Hamas   Photos   Wikipedia: Israel and Egypt – Gaza Strip barrier
A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN  The Guardian  Thu 23 May 2013
Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release
SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Military   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Mohamed Morsi
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Syrian President Bashar Assad reacts as he speaks to the media with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, not seen, following their talks at the Ottoman-era Ciragan Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, May 8, 2010. Al Jazeera Thu 23 May 2013
Kerry warns Assad over Syria violence
The US Secretary of State is warning Syria's President that the opposition will be given wide support if Bashar al-Assad refuses to negotiate on a peace deal. John Kerry... (photo: AP / Ibrahim Usta)
Peace   Photos   Syrian Crisis   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN BBC News Thu 23 May 2013
Hezbollah 'perpetuating Assad's campaign of terror'
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the militant Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and Iran are helping perpetuate President Bashar al-Assad's... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Hezbollah   Iran   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying a child's body in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013. The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center reported several dead in the attack late Monday night, saying the strike appeared to be from a ground-to-ground missile. BBC News Thu 23 May 2013
Amnesty report condemns 'inaction' over rights abuses
Amnesty International has accused governments of using state sovereignty as an "excuse" for failing to intervene in emergencies such as in Syria. In its annual... (photo: AP / Aleppo Media Center AMC)
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Fereidoun Abbasi Davani, Iran's Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization delivers a speech at the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. Huffington Post Wed 22 May 2013
Iran's Nuclear Program Gets 2 Major Upgrades In Uranium Enrichment And Plutonium Production, IAEA Says
VIENNA -- The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran... (photo: AP / Ronald Zak)
IAEA   Iran   Photos   Uranium   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a brief news conference with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, before their meeting WPXI Wed 22 May 2013
Palestinians have little faith in Kerry effort
Palestinians believe the U.S. effort to restart peace talks is doomed, and they're preparing instead to resume their campaign of seeking membership in key international... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
Palestinia   Peace   Photos   Talks   Wikipedia: Palestinian people
Report: Palestinian organizations use U.S. funding to demonize Israel The Examiner Wed 22 May 2013
Report: Palestinian organizations use U.S. funding to demonize Israel
On Tuesday, a report presented to Congress by Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor showed that several NGOs (“non-government organizations”) in the region that receive... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Israel   Palestinian   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Palestine


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File - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013 photo, a Lebanese army soldier rides a motorcycle, and passes in front of Syrian flag, in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Ten dead in sectarian clashes in Lebanon's Tripoli BBC News
Suspected members of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, are detained by the military, in Bukavu Barracks in Kano state, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Nigeria: Islamic extremist inmates to be released San Francisco Chronicle
In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, holds hands with chief of staff Esfandiari Rahim Mashaei, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran. Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad ally barred from Iran election Reuters
Head of the Iran's Experts Assembly Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his speech, during a meeting of the assembly, a powerful clerical panel charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Two key candidates barred from Iran election Al Jazeera
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File - Workers drilling for oil on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Fuelling geopolitics: The oil saga Al Jazeera
Iran's Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi, center, gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, June 14, 2012. The meeting of the 12 oil ministers of the OPEC focuses on price and production targets. Iran sees no need for OPEC emergency meeting over drop in prices Middle East Online
Calumet Industries, formerly Cotton Valley Oil Company, located off U.S. Highway 371 in Cotton Valley Syria oil industry buckling under rebel gains The Tribune San Luis Obispo
India to create Rs 2,000 cr energy pool to reinsure Iran crude imports India to create Rs 2,000 cr energy pool to reinsure Iran crude imports Indian Express
The Wall Street area from the air in 2009.In the first year of the new century, the Big Board, as some termed the NYSE, was described as the world's "largest and most prestigious stock market." Markets Live: Investors wary after Cyprus deal Canberra Times
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Israeli soldiers work on top of a tank in a position in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, on the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Israel warns Syria of 'consequences' if Golan fire continues The Siasat Daily
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war The Guardian
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013. Justice in the Age of Drone Terror WorldNews.com
Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war The Guardian
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