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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (ayt1)
Corruption   Israeli   Jerusalem   Olmert   Photos  
 Canada Dot Com 
Corruption charges dog Olmert
| JERUSALEM - Israeli police recommended Sunday that the attorney general file corruption charges against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. | Senior police officers alleged that the 62-year-old former mayor... (photo: AP Photo / Uriel Sinai)
A street with buildings ruined during the recent Georgian-Russian war seen in Tskhinvali, regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.
Defence   Georgia   Photos   Russia   Sarkozy  
 CNN 
Sarkozy seeks Russian pullout from Georgia
| MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy was traveling to Moscow on Monday with European Union leaders in an attempt to persuade Russia to fulfil its promise to pull troops out of Ge... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev)
U.S. Soldiers conduct a patrol of the Hariyah district, Baghdad, Iraq on Aug. 30, 2008. The Soldiers are in 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.  Bahrain Tribune 
Daunting tasks ahead
BAGHDAD (AP) | Iraq may approve election law, finalise security peace this parliament session | Iraqi lawmakers end their summer break this week facing urgent tasks of approving a new election law and... (photo: US Army / Spc. Charles Gill )
Baghdad   Election   Iraq   Photos   US  
 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is introduced at Jackson Memorial Hall at Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, Va., Wednesday, April 11, 2007. The presidential hopeful delivered a major policy speech concerning the Iraq war to the VMI Corps of Cadets. (  The Star 
McCain takes 4-point lead over Obama in poll
| ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - Republican John McCain heads into the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign with a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama, a USA Today/Gallup poll released o... (photo: apphoto)
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 Vice President Dick Cheney talks with Juan Williams, left, of National Public Radio during a taped radio interview in the Vice President´s office during the White House Radio Day, Tuesday, October 24, 200 cg1 Business Day
US turns up pressure on Russia  
MILAN - US Vice-President Dick Cheney increased US pressure on Russia at the weekend, saying its attack on Georgia last month and "bullying" of other former Soviet states... (photo: White House/David Bohrer)
Cheney   Georgia   Photos   Russia   US  
  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference at a police station in Sderot, Israel, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Mortar shells are stacked in background. At left, Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, and center right, and Mayor of Sderot, Eli Mo Boston Herald
John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden hit the airwaves
| WASHINGTON - As Sarah Palin agreed to her first television interview, veteran interviewees John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden hit the airwaves yesterday. | Obama t... (photo: AP / Jae C. Hon)
Mccain   Obama   Photos   Politics   US  
Green Hill- india- environment Independent online
A future without oil
| South Africa cannot pin its hope on a miracle to rescue it from the coming global oil crisis, and needs to take urgent and radical steps to avoid an "unprecedented" mel... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Crisis   Future   Petrol   Photos   Rescue  
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama Wall Street Journal
Obama Has a Plan
Energy is playing a pivotal role in this year's presidential election. And a crucial aspect of America's energy security not widely discussed is how to best use America's... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Economy   Election   Photos   Politics   US  
In this Aug. 27, 2008 file photo, French President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses ambassadors to France during a conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. He's not know for his diplomatic graces, but blunt-talking French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks like Europe's best bet for making peace between Russia and Geo The Independent
Peacemaker Sarkozy in mission to Moscow
| The French President embarks on a high-risk mission to Moscow today, buoyed by support from the EU but with few guarantees of a major breakthrough. | Nicolas Sarkozy wi... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon, File)
EU   Georgia   Peace   Photos   Russia  
 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo swears in former Land Bank of the Philippines president Margarito Teves (left) as the new Finance Secretary and former National Economic and Development Authority Director General Romulo Neri as Secretary of the Departme Inquirer
Court comes up short
| MANILA, Philippines - The decision of the Supreme Court to uphold its landmark if controversial ruling on the Neri vs. Senate Committee case saddens us, because it send... (photo: Michael Rey Baniquet - OPS-NIB )
Court   Philippines   Photos   Senate   ZTE  
A silhouette crosses an inscribed glass panel inside the entrance to New York City's largest Afghani mosque, the Masjid Hazrat-I-Abubakr, on the first night of Ramadan, Friday, Nov. 17, 2001. Ramadan, a monthlong holiday of fasting and purification, celebrates the month in which God revealed the Quran, Islam's holy book, to Prophet Moha Daily Star Lebanon
America's Islamophobia problem
| By Ghassan Rubeiz | Commentary by | Monday, September 08, 2008 | In a 2006 interview, Glenn Beck, the host of a CNN talk show, looked Muslim congressman Keith Ellison s... (photo: AP / Tina Fineberg)
Islam   Photos   Society   Terrorism   US  
Oprah Winfrey looks out over the audience as she listen to a speaker in Whitesboro, N.J. Satuday, Aug. 30, 2008. Winfrey is scheduled to be the keynote speaker Saturday at the annual festival in Whitesboro, a tiny, rural community founded in 1901 as a settlement for blacks leaving the S NZ Herald
Oprah compromised as she refuses to interview Palin
| Oprah Winfrey, America's favourite daytime television star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show. | Winfre... (photo: AP / MJ Schear)
Celebrity   Elections   Photos   Politics   US  
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- 3 killed, 15 injured as US missiles hit madrassa in Pakistan
Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
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- French revolt over Edvige - Sarkozy's Big Brother comput
- Menino, in Italy, talks of home
- Working with Russia -The EU needs Russia and NATO policies i
- Sarkozy to Demand Russian Pullout From Georgia
- E.European business climate waned in early summer
- Russia opposes EU monitoring in Georgia
Inaugural meeting between the French Presidency of the EU and the EC :  Jos Manuel Barroso and Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarkozy to Demand Russian Pullout From Georgia
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Asia Middle East
- Hong Kong Democrats survive polls
- Thailand prime minister's troubles grow with accusations
- 3 killed, 15 injured as US missiles hit madrassa in Pakistan
- House panel chief not ready to waive rules for India deal
- India, China should work for peace and stability in Asia
- Australia not willing to give India uranium despite NSG supp
Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
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- EGYPT-ISRAEL: Government says it deported African migrants
- Gadhafi Rehabilitation Sealed At Rice Dinner
- Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
- Iraqi legislators to resume work on new elections law
- Nasrallah urges talks with Lebanon's Hariri
- Rescuing Peace in the Middle East
Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
Sources: Bush Advised To Delay Troop Cuts In Iraq
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- OPEC ministers consider options as oil prices continue to fa
- Bolivian leader's ally now harsh foe
- Latin America Wants Free Trade
- Venezuelan opposition accuses Chavez of using state media to
- Chavez opponents call state media coverage unfair
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seen at a news conference in the Meiendorf Castle residence outside Moscow, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Tuesday for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect the South American country from the United State
Venezuela, Russia may hold joint naval exercises
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- DA wants arms issues finalised
- EGYPT-ISRAEL: Government says it deported African migrants
- Country's Children Trafficked for Sexual Exploitation, S
- Election Results in 1,630 Polling Units in Kogi Voided, Says
- 3 ships thwart attacks by pirates off Somalia
- 2007 Elections - 'Why INEC Can't Prosecute Major Off
 Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, left, points as he holds the hand of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, center, at the airport in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called Tuesday for a strongly unified Africa
Gadhafi completes US rehabilitation over kitchen soup with Rice
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Australia Caribbean
- Any party will do, says Rudd
- Australia not willing to give India uranium despite NSG supp
- Rees ministry: who's who
- Asian stocks soar after Freddie, Fannie bailouts
- Major parties digest weekend's political bombshells
- No clear winner after WA vote
Kevin Rudd
NSG in bag, India seeks uranium from Australia
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- 3 ships thwart attacks by pirates off Somalia
- Ike hits Cuba as dangerous Category 3 hurricane
- Fla. Keys residents weigh evacuation ahead of Ike
- 3 ships evade pirate attack off Somalia
- Ike's wrath 'like the end of the world,' Gulf dr
- Fla. Keys residents weigh evacuation ahead of Ike
Wind-driven water floods a neighborhood during the passage of Hurricane Ike, on the island of Providenciales, in the Turks & Caicos Islands, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008.
Ike's wrath 'like the end of the world,' Gulf drama ahead
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