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Kuwait has announced three days of mourning after the death on Tuesday of Sheikh Saad al-Sabah, who served briefly as head of state in 2006. Sheikh Saad was deposed by parliament on health grounds after just nine days as leader of the oil-rich Gulf state. The powerful prime minister,...
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A 1994 file photo taken in the Shaab Palace, Kuwait City of Kuwaits former Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah who died May 13, 2008.
photo: AP / Gustavo Ferrari

Arab World »
A shadowed woman hiding her identity talks during a live talk show at the satellite television network
Call for greater media freedom
Khaleej Times
Palestinians hold Hizbollah´s chief Hassan Nasrallah poster during a demonstration out side the Palestinian parliament in Gaza City July 17, 2006. (WN/Ali Hassan)SJ1
Hezbollah's guns trump the pen
The Washington Times
Two men watch the shipping, including oil tankers, off coast of the Al Mamzar area in Dubai Friday, April 20, 2001. The Georgian-flagged Zainab ship carrying smuggled Iraqi oil sank last week off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, causing a 30 kilome
When Will Arab Oil Translate into Political Power?
Middle East Online
An Israeli soldier is dwarfed by an image of Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion during the general rehearsal for the official ceremony for Independence Day on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, Monday, May 5, 2008. Israelis will mark 60 years since the creation of the state beginning at sundown Wednesday through Thursday
Israelis fearing war
The Australian
Death »
The death chamber with an emergency phone in Unit 4 of the Penitentiary of New Mexico is shown during a press tour of the facility Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, in Sante Fe, N.M. The room is prepared for the execution of Terry Clark scheduled for Nov. 6, 2001
U.S. moving to clear backlog of executions
International Herald Tribune
Lt.Vol. Alexander Litvinenko, right, of the Federal Security Service, and a Russian intelligence agent speak at a news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1998. Litvinenko accused his bosses of ordering kidnappings, extortion and contract murders, in
The Litvinenko files: Was he really murdered?
The Independent
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Baby deaths: department set for talks
Independent online (SA)
People in a taxi watching the strike -- Security worker members´ of the South African Trade and Allied Workers´ Union marched streets of Durban´s city centre today, in efforts to secure an 11% wage increase. Over the past month there ha
Poverty pushes up SA's child mortality
Independent online (SA)
Kuwait »
ATA Airlines - Travel - Flights /aaeh
Jamestown soldier connects with flight from Kuwait
Buffalo News
Uranium
Idaho dump site ready for loads of contaminated sand
The News Tribune
Iraq -- A series of attacks - including two suicide car bombings - in the northern city of Kirkuk Sunday killed 24 people and wounded dozens, police said. In political developments, Iraq´s second-largest Sunni Arab party rejected a proposed bill t
Report: al-Qaida linked Kuwaiti militant tells daily that Iran supports Sunni fighters in Iraq
International Herald Tribune
Dump site
Contaminated sand slated for Idaho dump site
The Examiner
Parliament »
Ali Larijani
Larijani takes over leadership of Parliament bloc
Daily Star Lebanon
ranians cast their ballots for run-off parliamentary elections, at a polling station, in Tehran, Iran,, jsa1
Conservatives dominate after Iran parliament runoffs
Houston Chronicle
Fuel - Egypt - Economy - Oil prices - oil crisis
Egypt raises taxes, fuel prices to pay for public sector wage hike
The Times Of India
Some of 29 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood clutch Qurans as the are led into a court in the New Cairo area of Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007. The court upheld Egypt´s prosecution decision to freeze the assets of 29 members of the Mu
Egypt bars Brotherhood seeking parliament seat
Middle East Online
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