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The Al Azhar Mosque, built in 969 AD, in downtown Cairo.
Cairo   Death   Egypt   Muslim   Photos		  Star Tribune 
Egypt's top Muslim cleric, whose moderate views angered hard-liners, dies of heart attack
Wed 10 Mar 2010
CAIRO - Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit... (photo: US DoD)
An african immigrant rests inside a red cross tent after arriving in a small wooden fishing boat
Eritrea   Europe   Military   Photos   Sudan		  The Daily Tribune 
East Sudan, a first step for Eritrea’s Europe-bound migrants
Wed 10 Mar 2010
FEATURE 03/11/2010 SHEGERAB — Fleeing a military regime, thousands of young Eritreans stream into neighboring east Sudan, the first stage of their long migration to Europe, Israel — or even Khartoum.... (photo: AP / Arturo Rodriguez)
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wave to the press ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. Biden was to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in part to ease their doubts about the latest U.S. peace efforts.  Zeenews  Wed 10 Mar 2010
Israel apologizes for embarrassing Biden
Ramallah (West Bank): Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill)
Israel   Jerusalem   Palestinians   Photos   US
Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's pre-eminent theological institute, waves to Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not in picture, at the Azhar headquarters, in Cairo, Egypt  Independent online (SA)  Wed 10 Mar 2010
 Head of al-Azhar dies
Cairo - Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of Egypt's most prestigious seat of Islamic learning al-Azhar, died of a heart attack on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, religious officials at... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil)
Death   Education   Egypt   Islam   Photos
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England national soccer team striker Michael Owen arrives for a squad training session for the World Cup at Mittelbergstadion in Buehlertal, Germany, Saturday June 17, 2006. England face Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden in their Group B games at the World Cup Sky Sports Wed 10 Mar 2010
Pearce - Door open for Owen
England U21 boss Stuart Pearce insists it is wrong to suggest Michael Owen's international career is over. Owen's slim hopes of making this summer's World Cup finals... (photo: AP / Matt Dunham)
Football   Owen   Photos   Soccer   Sport
Islamic Center Khaleej Times Tue 9 Mar 2010
A Visit to Oxford Islamic Centre
Recently, I was taken on a tour of the sprawling future home of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies now under construction on the grounds of Magdalen College. Senior... (photo: Creative Commons / Unfocused)
Future   Islamic   Muslim   Oxford   Photos
President Hosni Mubarak attends a joint press cEgyptian onference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (tmg1) Khaleej Times Tue 9 Mar 2010
What will it Take for Change to Come to Egypt?
Not so long ago, when an American president wanted help in the Arab world, he would call Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who was routinely known as America's... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Egypt   Mubarak   Photos   President   World
Farouk Hosny - Egyptian minister of culture. ula1 Ohio Tue 9 Mar 2010
Egypt to pay for restoration of all synagogues
CAIRO: Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister today, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo's... (photo: WN)
Cairo   Country   Egypt   Photos   Restoration
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (waving), President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is shown with his delegation in the General Assembly Hall during the general debate of the Assembly's sixty- fourth session, 23 September, 2009. China Daily Tue 9 Mar 2010
Ongoing Iran diplomacy needed
Hardline tactics will only push Teheran into corner, says envoy Beijing: China's special envoy to the Middle East denied on Friday that interest in oil is the key reason... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Beijing   Diplomacy   Mideast   Photos   Tehran


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Palestinian schoolgirls and women attend a protest against an Israeli plan to include two deeply contested holy sites in the occupied West Bank in a national heritage renovation plan, in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah on March 9, 2010. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked outrage late February when he said he hoped to include Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in a national heritage restoration plan. (Photo by Ahmed/WN) Trial Begins Over Death of US Activist in Gaza The New York Times
A truck loaded with Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan after years in exile pulls into the UN reception center in Kabul before bringing the Afghans back to their villages. Iran says NATO presence is no solution for Afghanistan (2nd Roundup) m&c
ag2 Presidential candidate Obama Barack addressing the crowd at the Essence Music Festival on July 5, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress Denver Post
File - This April 21, 2004 file photo shows Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu following his release outside Shikma Prison in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Israel. Why Punish Iran for What Israel Has Already Done? WorldNews.com
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, greets his supporters during his visit to Semnan, Iran, Wednesday May, 20, 2009. Can Iran be reined in with sanctions? Gulf News
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., listens to testimony during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Sept. 19, 2006 file photo. Palestinians complain to Biden Khaleej Times
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers of his ruling Justice and Development Party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Turkey and IMF call off talks for loan agreement on disagreement over conditions Star Tribune
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. Ahmadinejad criticises NATO troops, mocks Gates Khaleej Times
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers about army's last Iraq incursion at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 4, 2008, four days after the Turkish military ended a week-long ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Ira Erdogan gets Saudi nod as Mideast force Khaleej Times
Jenson Button testing for McLaren at Jerez, 10/02/2010. Formula One statistics for Bahrain Grand Prix The Guardian
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Gates said that U.S. and British citizens were the targets of the violent siege in Mumbai, although most of those killed in the city, the nation's financial capital, were Indians. He also said Tuesday that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, had gone to the region to meet with official Gates in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Iran The New York Times
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