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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks to supporters during a rally in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, Friday, June 10, 2005. Nasrallah urged people to go out and vote in the eastern Bekaa Valley Sunday saying that "we protect the resistance with the vote in order for it to protect us with blood". Lebanon will hold on Sunday June 12 the third phase of its parliamentary election. (js1) Hezbollah will never lay down arms: Nasrallah
| 5 Sep 2008, 1214 hrs IST,IANS             BEIRUT: The leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has said hi... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic) The Times of India
Arms   Beirut   Hezbollah   Nasrallah   Photos  
KLdy1 - Aug08 - Beijing, China - economy - politics. (dy1) China tested nukes for Pakistan, gave design
| 5 Sep 2008, 1046 hrs IST, CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA,TNN             WASHINGTON: While an assortment of non-proliferation hardliners and hi-tech ... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
The Times of India
China   Pakistan   Photos   Slideshow   Tech   Washington  
Sadam hussein anniversary. (mb1) Hussein's abuse to be exhibited
| BAGHDAD - The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a face lift: The plan is to reopen it and build a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes - but not the abuses c... (photo: AP / Bassem Daham)
Lexington Herald-Leader
Abuse   Baghdad   Ghraib   Notorious   Photos   Slideshow  
FIRING RANGE - SHOTGUN - TARGET SHOOTING Gunowners’ amnesty good until November
| THE National Police is asking gun owners to register their unlicensed firearms and take advantage of the amnesty before it ends in November. | Police Director General A... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) Manila Standard Today
Amnesty   Firearms   Photos   Police   Weapon  
Philippine Maritime Police - C-130 Plane Crash - Davao City - Philippines C-130 fuselage located by US Navy ship -- officials
| DAVAO CITY -- The fuselage of the military transport plane that crashed here Monday last week was found Thursday evening by the US Navy ship helping in retrieval operat... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) Inquirer
Davao   Defence   Navy   Philippines   Photos  
F 16 Iraq Seeks F-16 Fighters
WASHINGTON -- The Iraqi government is seeking to buy 36 advanced F-16 fighters from the U.S., say American military officials familiar with the request, a move that could... (photo: PD US Air Force / Ed g2s ) Wall Street Journal
Defence   Iraq   Photos   US   Washington  
US President George W. Bush, center, poses for a group photo of G8 leaders and African leaders at the lakeside resort Toyako on the Japanese northern main island of Hokkaido Monday, July 7, 2008. Bush advised to delay troop cuts in Iraq
WASHINGTON - President Bush's top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year contrary to expectations that the imp... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
Khaleej Times
Bush   Iraq   Photos   President   US  
Official visit by Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, to Paris where he takes part in the festivities for the French National Day: Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, in the centre, and Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the EC Israeli threat to strike Iran real, warns Sarkozy
Related » | Mr Sarkozy's diplomatic initiative | 05/09/2008 In this section » | Cheney pledges support for embattled Georgian leaderFears Indian flood deaths will rise as... (photo: EC / European Community 2008) Irish Times
Campaign   Iran   Parliament   Photos   Politic  
U.S. Soldiers walk  back to their patrol base in Sadr Yusifiyah, Iraq, July 13, 2008, after an air assault mission with 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. U.S. plan would shift forces from Iraq to Afghanistan
| : The United States would carry out a modest shift of American forces from Iraq to Afghanistan by early next year under a confidential recommendation to President Georg... (photo: US Army / Spc. Richard Del Vecchio)
International Herald Tribune
Afghanistan   Iraq   Pentagon   Photos   War  
Aussie Dollar - AUD - Australian Dollar - Currency - Money. (ps1) Australian dollar falls against greenback, yen
| THE Australian dollar opened more than US1 cent lower after risk-averse investors sold the currency overnight. | At 0700 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0... (photo: Public Domain / -)
The Australian
Aussie   Currencies   Dollar   Economy   Photos  
 Vice President Dick Cheney delivers remarks Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, to the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue in Sydney. The Vice President told the audience, "This alliance is strong because we want it to be, and because we work at it, and beca Georgia will be in our Nato alliance, Cheney warns Moscow
| Dick Cheney delivered a bellicose warning to Russia yesterday during a brief visit to war-torn Georgia, promising that America's small Caucasus ally would one day join ... (photo: White House/David Bohrer) The Times
Alliance   Cheney   Georgia   Nato   Photos  
 This photo provided by the White House show Vice President Dick Cheney, second from left, accompanied his wife Lynne Cheney, left, making remarks during the ceremonial ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascula Cheney vows to stand by Georgia
Sep 5, 2008 8:22 AM | US Vice President Dick Cheney vowed on Thursday to stand by Georgia in its showdown with Russia, calling Moscow's war against the ex-Soviet state an... (photo: AP Photo/White House, David Bohrer) TVNZ
Cheney   Georgia   Photos   President   Russia  
In this photo released Saturday, July 19, 2008, by the the U.S. Army, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands with service members at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Friday, July 18, 2008, during a Congressional Delegation visit Obama gets first intelligence briefing
Sep 5, 2008 8:32 AM | Barack Obama got his first intelligence briefing as the Democratic US presidential candidate this week and spy agencies are ready to do the same for... (photo: AP / U.S. Army, Jarod Perkioniemi) TVNZ
Democracy   Obama   Photos   US   World  
Filipinos -  Poverty -  Slum Area - Davao City - Philippines Cry for Mindanao
| MANILA, Philippines—What lies ahead for Mindanao? Being a land of promise where many have not only found wealth but built business empires, Mindanao has also been curse... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) Inquirer
Business   Mindanao   Peace   Philippines   Photos  
GUN - WEAPON - MAGAZINE - RIFLE - CALIBER - FIREARM - HUNTING WEAPON Gun amnesty good until Nov. 13 only
By: Alfred P. Dalizon POLICE have seized 2,596 loose firearms and arrested 2,243 persons during the past six months in a stepped-up campaign to account for unlicensed gun... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) Journal Online
Amnesty   Firearms   Gun   Photos   Police  
Asif Ali Zardari, husband of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto (tmg1) Zardari may prove better at winning power than using it
| A BAD day in Pakistan, and it's going to get worse: in three days' time, a man ill-suited to be president is probably going to sweep into office. | Benazir Bhutto's wid... (photo: AP / Shakil Adil) The Australian
Defence   Economy   Elections   Pakistan   Photos  
An anti-government supporter reacts to a speech by Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej at the Government House Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Embattled Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej called the political crisis in Thailand a shameful embarrassment for the country but vowed not to resign or dissolve Parliament, saying Thursday it was his job to protect demo Besieged Thai leader to seek confidence vote
| THAILAND'S Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej plans to seek a national vote of confidence in his beleaguered government at a referendum next month. | But the Peoples Allia... (photo: AP / David Longstreath) The Australian
Democracy   Military   Photos   Politics   Thailand  
 Vice President Richard B. Cheney addresses more than 8,500 U.S. Army soldiers at Cooper Field on Fort Hood, Texas, Oct. 4, 2006. He told the audience that Americans are grateful for their service.   U.S. Army photo by Christopher Varville         wnhires Cheney vows backing for Georgia
| : U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney vowed on Thursday to stand by Georgia in its showdown with Russia, calling Moscow's war against the ex-Soviet state an illegitimate ac... (photo: US Army/Christopher Varville) International Herald Tribune
Defence   Georgia   Photos   Russia   US  
An Angolan woman collects water from a rain puddle in the streets in Luanda, Angola, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 12, 2007. Angola: A vote for the books
| Angolan elections will determine whether the civil war ends tomorrow, or never. | By Andrew D Bishop for ISN Security Watch (04/09/08) | Angolans go to the polls 5 Sept... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay) ISN
Africa   Angola   Democracy   Elections   Photos  
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, is seen among the local people after arriving in Shindant district of Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Pakistan, Afghanistan deplore U.S. attacks
| WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pakistan lashed out at the United States and the Afghan president spoke with President Bush after U.S. military strikes that leaders of the two nati... (photo: AP / ) CNN
Afghanistan   Attacks   Pakistan   Photos   US  
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