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Tzipi Livni, Israeli Foreign Minister and candidate for the Kadima party leadership, speaks during a meeting of party members in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008.

Poll favours Livni as Israel leadership vote nears
The Star

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's hopes of succeeding the scandal-hit Ehud Olmert as prime minister got a boost from an opinion poll on Monday, two days before she faces rivals in a party leadership vote. Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attends a meeting with her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos (not...
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit

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Arab League chief in Beirut to take part in national dialogue
Daily Star Lebanon

'We don't want conflict over Hizbullah's weapons' - Hariri By Hussein Abdallah Daily Star staff...

The rising danger of high oil prices
International Herald Tribune

The tripling in the price of oil from $30 a barrel in 2001 to more than $100 today represents...

The world cannot afford a new Cold War
International Herald Tribune

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the world had enormous expectations that it would finally...

Cheers greet new Zimbabwe deal

Arthur Mutmbara, deputy Prime Minster of Zimbabwe, left, Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, new Prime Minster of Zimbabwe and Thabo Mbeki, South African President join hands at the signing of the power sharing deal ceremony in Harare Monday, Sept, 15, 2008.

Gulf News

Harare: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing agreement with opposition rival Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday, relinquishing some of his powers for the first time in nearly three decades of iron rule. The deal followed weeks of tense...
photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

Bush: Ike put 'pinch' on consumers

The Press Democrat

Bush said the hurricane's toll on refineries and pipelines is creating"an upward pressure on price" for people at the gas pump. "There's going to be a pinch," Bush said after a briefing on hurricane recovery efforts. "I wish it wasn't the case, but...
photo: FEMA / Patsy Lynch

What national treasure has GMA not yet given away?

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her 8th State of the Nation Address (SONA) during the opening of the Second Joint Regular Session of the 14th Congress Monday (July 28, 2008) at the Batasang Pambansa in Constitution Hills, Quezon City.

The Philippine Star

In the deal that the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) regime entered into with China regarding the Spratlys, many Filipinos felt that she virtually signed over to the new Asian superpower our oil and gas reserves. In the BJE deal GMA was about to ink...
photo: OPS-NIB / Marcelino Pascua

Dow Jones slides as Lehman bankruptcy prompts frantic trading

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the final hour of trading, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. Wall Street advanced for the third straight session Wednesday, although the Dow Jones industrial average fell just short of touching its

The Daily Telegraph

Markets on Wall Street endured a frantic opening as the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 300 points following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. As traders moved to bail out of financial stocks and close out positions with Lehman Brothers,...
photo: AP/Richard Drew

PM's crash course in leadership

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his wife Therese Rein watch a photo showing the destruction caused by the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing on Hiroshima, jsa1

The Australian

Why Kevin Rudd must make NSW his business KEVIN Rudd can say one thing in public, but say and do nothing in private. Normally you would expect the reverse to be true - that a prime minister would express some pretty strong views behind the scenes,...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi

Hague jails ex-Bosnian army chief

Bosnian retired Gen. Rasim Delic enters the court room at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, as the court delivers its verdict in The Hague, Monday Sept. 15, 2008. Delic, 59, was commander of the main staff of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army from 1993. Prosecutors allege he was in charge of a unit of foreign fighters known as "mujahadeen" who poured into Bosnia to fight Serb and Croat forces during the 1992-95 war. Delic, one of only a handful of Muslims indicted by the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, was charged with murder, rape and cruel treatment. Prosecutors say Delic failed to prevent mujahadeen fighters gunning down prisoners and beheading

BBC News

Former Bosnian Muslim army chief Rasim Delic has been jailed for three years for war crimes at The Hague. The UN's war crimes tribunal convicted Delic over the "cruel treatment" of Serb...
photo: AP / Peter Dejong, pool

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