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Iraq defence minister asks for budget to pay informers - 12/12/2009

BAGHDAD- Iraqi Defence Minister Abdel Qader Obeidi on Saturday asked parliament for funds to recruit informers, saying that the authorities lacked sufficient information on insurgents. "Our...

US voices concern over hunger-striking Sahara activist - 12/12/2009

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has raised US concern over a hunger-striking Western Sahara independence activist with Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri, a US spokesman said...

Pakistan must help US more against Al-Qaeda: Obama - 12/12/2009

WASHINGTON- Pakistan must cooperate more fully with the United States to help wipe out Al-Qaeda, US President Barack Obama said in excerpts of a weekend interview. In the interview with CBS...

France to hand back Egypt relics during Mubarak visit - 12/11/2009

PARIS- France will hand back to Egypt five stolen relics on Monday when President Hosni Mubarak visits Paris, ending a row over the wall fragments sold to the Louvre. President Nicolas Sarkozy...

Jerusalem protest against slowdown in settlement building - 12/10/2009

JERUSALEM - Thousands of demonstrators rallied outside the Israeli prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest a 10-month moratorium on new building permits for Jewish settlers in...

Intense reading program 'rewires' kids' brains: study - 12/10/2009

WASHINGTON- Children who undergo intensive remedial reading programs not only become better readers but can also end up with rewired brains that are better at communicating, a study published...

Arab success story in the restaurant business...Sami Ladeki .. Man of Ideas not Figures - 12/09/2009

San Diego (California) – Abdul Rahman Bitar Lebanese immigrants are successful wherever they go in this world, but what is the secret? Wherever you move in San Diego, the beautiful coastal city...

US cancer rate declines: study - 12/08/2009

WASHINGTON- The incidence and death rate from most types of cancer continued a downward trend in the United States thanks to widespread screening, better treatment and lower risk factors, a report...

NASA to launch space education program for Arab youth - 12/07/2009

WASHINGTON - NASA has teamed up with the Dubai-based Arab Youth Venture Foundation to provide students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the chance to work on NASA missions, the US space agency...

Fear of regime inspired Romanian Nobel winner - 12/07/2009

STOCKHOLM- The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature told Monday of how her fear of the communist regime in her native Romania inspired her to write. Herta Mueller used the lecture...
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