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Brussels urges Russia to break Gazprom grip on pipelines. ula1
Crude   Gazprom   Iran   Photos   Russia		  The Australian 
Russia's Gazprom to help develop Iran's oil and gas
IRAN and Gazprom have signed an agreement for the Russian energy giant to help Teheran develop its oil and gas fields. The move comes just days after Total dropped out of a multibillion-dollar gas... (photo: gazprom.ru)
Abu Dhabi
Authority   Book   Culture   Heritage   Photos		  Middle East Online 
Abu Dhabi prepares book on intangible heritage
ABU DHABI - The Department of Intangible Heritage at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage has prepared a book on the proceedings of the first regional meeting regarding intangible Arab... (photo: GFDL / Denis Barthel )
A wide-view of the Security Council members voting unanimously to renew the arms embargo against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  Gulf News 
UN Security Council not effective - US academic
Dubai: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is in dire need of reform, according to Richard Hartwig, Professor of Political Science from Texas A&M University. "There is currently no effective... (photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein)
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Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim speaks during a press conference after a meeting with his Spanish counterpart at the Ministry, in Madrid, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2  NZ Herald 
Goebbels jibe puts heat in WTO meeting
Celso Amorim said the trade-talk tactics of rich countries reminded him of Joseph Goebbels' approach. Photo / AP GENEVA - Some pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic... (photo: AP / Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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Middle East Airlines Airbus / wam2 Daily Star Lebanon
Despite open-sky jitters MEA profits keep soaring

Lebanon's state-owned airline still fears losing market amid increasing competition By Daniel Phillips Special to The Daily Star Monday, July 21, 2008... (photo: Public Domain / )
Aerospace   Energy   Lebanon   Photos   Transport
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts during a press conference in Baghdad, Sunday, March 2, 2008. Daily Star Lebanon
Iran gets two-week deadline to respond to incentives offer

By Agence France Presse (AFP) Monday, July 21, 2008 Stuart Williams Agence France Presse TEHRAN: Iran was on Sunday facing a two-week deadline to give a final answer to... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
France   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   World
In this July 16, 2008 file photo, Turkish soldiers are seen during a search for German climbers kidnapped by Kurdish rebels on the Mount Ararat, in the background, near the Turkish town of Dogubayazit near the border with Iran. Kurdish rebels kidnapped three German climbers on July 8, 2008, from their camp at 3,200 meters (10,500 feet) on the Mount Ararat. Kurdish rebels have released three German climbers after holding them hostage for more than a week, Turkish authorities said in Ankara, Sunday, July 2 Voa News
Turkey: Kurdish Rebels Release Kidnapped German Tourists
Turkey's foreign ministry says Kurdish rebels have released three German tourists who were kidnapped earlier this month in the east of the country. Germany's Foreign... (photo: AP / Selahattin Kacuru, Anatolia, File)
Germany   Hostage   Kurd   Photos   Turkey
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon of the United Nations meets with the President Sleiman of Lebanon in the presidents suite in the Hotel Ritz Sunday july 11, 2008 in Paris France IRINnews
LEBANON: Peace still precarious

web Photo: Hugh Macleod/IRIN NAQOURA, 20 July 2008 (IRIN) - Hezbollah's claim to victory over Israel in its 16 July prisoner swap undermines moderate Arab states and... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
Arab   Lebanon   Mideast   Peace   Photo   Photos
PENTAGON BRIEFING - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief reporters at the Pentagon on the way ahead in Iraq, April 11, 2008. San Diego
Mullen worries about troop withdrawal timeline
WASHINGTON - A fixed timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, the Pentagon's top military officer said... (photo: Defense Dept. / U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley )
Combat   Iraq   Photos   Security   Washington
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Iran's Ahmadinejad, Russia's Medvedev talk on nuclear issue
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaking at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on July 15. The presidents of Iran and Russia have expressed hope for a diplomatic solution... (photo: AP /Vahid Salemi)
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Unknown ruin, Iraqi desert Iraq resumes work at oil refinery in former insurgent territory in western desert region Star Tribune
U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns, center, gets directions as he arrives with other unidentified US delegate members for a meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, both not seen, at the Town Hall in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, July 19, 2008 Iran, EU and US begin nuclear talks in Geneva Turkish Press
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki leaves the Turkish Foreign Ministry after talks with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 18, 2008. Mottaki said Friday that forthcoming nuclear talks in Geneva and the participation of a U. S. diplomat for first time look positive and he expects prog Iran sees 'positive' nuclear talks with U.S CNN
Fires flare off the gas from crude oil at Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside Kirkuk, Iraq, in this Jan. 24, 2004 file photo. Oil prices briefly rose to a record DLRS 80 a barrel in afternoon trading Wednesday Sept. 12, 2007 after the U.S. government reported a surprisingly large drop in crude oil inventories and declines in gasoline supplies and refinery activit Oil prices edge up after 3-day decline The Tribune San Luis Obispo
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Gen. David Petraeus, left, accompanied by Ambassador Ryan Crocker, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the status of the war in Iraq US General: Al-Qaida May Be Easing Effort In Iraq CBS News
In this photo released by the Iraqi Government, the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gestures as he speaks at a meeting with several Arab ambassadors to the United Arab Emirates in that country's capital, Abu Dhabi, Monday, July 7, 2008. Iraqi PM Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plan CBS News
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Baghdad prepares for 'a decisive' campaign against Al Qaida Baghdad prepares for 'a decisive' campaign against Al Qaida Gulf News
Islam
Sultanahmet mosque - religion - islam - Istanbul/ Turkey ( fa0 ) wnhires Turkey turns westwards The Guardian
A Coptic Christian Church from the outside. In St. Bishoy Monastery between Cairo and Alexandria, jsa1 Egypt's Coptic Christians becoming more and more isolated The Providence Journal
An elderly Iraqi Christian woman prays during a Sunday mass, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Sept. 17, 2006. Iraq´s biggest political parties on Sept.16, 2006, condemned comments by Pope Benedict XVI on Islam, with the main Sunni party warning confrontati Saving Iraq's Christians National Review
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