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American actor, Richard Geer, meeting with Hanan Ashrawi and several Palestinian intellectuals in Ramallah yesterday after meeting with Israeli intellectuals earlier (Alquds Alarabi, 12/10/03).


Iranian human rights activists and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, speaking on Oslo on Tuesday. She'll be receiving her prize on Wednesday, as the first Muslim woman and the 11th Muslim who received it. (Annahar, 12/10/03).


Unless the Sharon Israeli occupation forces prevent them, like last year, Palestinians are determined to celebrate Christmas this year by preparing the 2003 Christmas Tree. (Annahar, 12/10/03).


A U.S. Army Humvee passes a pool of blood and the remains of medical equipment after a shooting by gunmen on U.S. soldiers guarding a gas station in Mosul December 10, 2003. Two American soldiers were killed, four were injured on Wednesday in separate attacks in Iraq. (Photo by Noor al-Dein/Reuters, 12/10/03).


Bodies lie on the pavement outside the bombed-out National Hotel in Moscow. (Reuters, Arab News, 12/10/03).


Body parts of victims of the Moscow suicide bombing yesterday (Annahar, 9/10/03).


US soldiers placing cement barriers at the entrance of their military base in Mosul, after yesterday's suicide bomb (Al-Khaleej, 12/10/03).


Iraqi children gather Tuesday around one of the charred vehicles in front of Ahbab Al Mustafa Mosque in western Baghdad (AFP photo, Jordan Times, 12/10/03).


A view of the Fallouja area, where a US helicopter was downed yesterday. The smoke came out of the wreckage (Annahar, 12/10/03).


Iraqi Shi'a mourners in downtown Baghdad protesting the killing of a Shi'a cleric, Abdul Razak Al-Lami (64), who was killed when a US tank crushed him and his car yesterday (Alquds Alarabi, 12/10/03).


A coalition soldier in Iraq pointing his gun at three Iraqis who were ordered to turn their back to him. (Alquds Alarabi, 12/10/03).


A young Palestinian boy looks on Tuesday as members of Al Aqsa brigade, linked to President Yasser Arafat's Fateh movement, march through the streets, during an anti-Geneva Initiative demonstration in the Dear Al Balah refugee camp in Gaza (REUTERS photo Mohammed Salem, Jordan Times, 12/10/03).


Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, protesting awarding a prize to the former Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Perez, for his role in killing about 100 Lebanese civilians in Kana, in 1996 (Assafir, 12/10/03).


Chinese Premier, Wen Jintao, and President George Bush at the White House Lawn yesterday (Annahar, 12/10/03).


Japanese Prime Minister, Koizumi, announcing that his government is sending 1,000 soldiers to Iraq despite the death of the two Japanese diplomats last week. (Annahar, 12/10/03).


President Chirac and Chancellor Schroeder in Paris yesterday. They reaffirmed their commitment to the European Constitution (Annahar, 12/10/03).


A Palestinian is carried away after he was killed in the Gaza Strip December 11, 2003. Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians on Thursday during gun battles that erupted after an armored push into Rafah refugee camp to detain a member of the Islamic Jihad resistance group. Palestinian officials identified the dead as four civilians, including a medic, and a gunman. (Photo by Ahmed Rashad/Reuters, 12/11/03).


Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza in The 55th anniversary of UN Resolution 194, which called on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes as part of the final solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (Alquds Alarabi, 12/11/03).


Iranian human rights activists and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, on Wednesday. (Alittihad, 12/11/03).


LEBANON: Corpses of two Lebanese fishermen, who were killed yesterday by Israeli naval soldiers while fishing in Lebanese waters, returned through the UN peace keeping observers. (Alkifah Alarabi, 12/11/03).


AFGHANISTAN: Graves of the nine Afghan children, who were killed during a US air raid on Ghazni on Friday (Al-Riyadh, 12/11/03).


IRAQ: Funeral of three Iraqis killed in a missile attack on a Sunni mosque in Baghdad. (Alquds Alarabi, 12/11/03).


U.S. Infantry soldiers detain an Iraqi man during an operation in the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 11, 2003. Much of the resistance to the U.S. led occupation is concentrated in Baquba, located in the "Sunni triangle." Troops and Iraqi police raided several buildings, arrested 16 men and seized 28 Kalashnikov rifles and bomb-making equipment. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters, 12/11/03).


Iraqi guerillas attacked the Beigi-Ad Doura oil pipeline, which set oil on fire and disrupted supplies. (Bab, 12/11/03).


Iraqi policemen examining a car that was used as a car bomb in Baghdad, on Tuesday night (Assafir, 12/11/03).


Japanese demonstrators protesting their government's decision to send troops to Iraq. (Al-Anwar, 12/11/03).


United Nations general secretary Kofi Anan (L) and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder address the media following their talks in Berlin December 11, 2003. The UN joined European leaders on Thursday in denouncing a U.S. decision to bar key American allies who opposed the Iraq war from sharing in contracts to rebuild the country. "It is up to those who took the decision to reverse it or maintain it and I hope something will be done about it," Annan told reporters. Photo by Thomas Koehler/Reuters, 12/11/03).


President George W. Bush makes a point as he talks to the press after the last cabinet meeting of the year in the West Wing of the White House December 11, 2003. Bush on Thursday rejected European criticism of his decision to bar Iraq war opponents from $18.6 billion in U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Iraq, saying the contracts would be reserved for those countries that risked lives in Iraq. Bush is pictured alongside(L-R), Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thomson, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton and Secretary of State Colin Powell. (Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters, 12/11/03).


President Mubarak of Egypt (left) and President Khatami of Iran meeting in Geneva yesterday while attending the World Summit on the Information Technology (Assafir, 12/11/03).


Lebanese President, Emile Lahood, addressing the World Summit on the Information Technology in Geneva yesterday. (Assafir, 12/11/03).


President Arafat receives the Palestinian child, Ala, who was born in Bethlehem refugee camp last week with his uncle's name written on his face, in what Palestinians saw as a miracle (Alquds, 12/12/03).


A Palestinian girl cries as she looks at the rubble of her home in the Rafah refugee camp which was demolished by the Israeli Army. (AFP, Arab News, 12/12/03).


A Palestinian woman looks at a house demolished by Israelis in the Rafah refugee camp on Thursday (AFP PHOTO by Mohammad ABED, Jordan Times, 12/12/03).


Palestinians examining the destruction that the Zionist Israeli occupation forces left behind after their unprovoked aggression on the Rafah refugee camp, in which they killed five Palestinians and injured 18 (Assafir, 12/12/03).


Professors and Students of the Lebanese University demonstrating in Beirut for more autonomy and more resources. (Annahar, 12/12/03).


Chirac receiving the Stazi report that will embark France to an anti-Islamic era of intolerance (Assafir, 12/12/03).


Egyptian novelist, Nagib Mahfoudh, in his 92nd birthday: We expect justice from America, not war and invasion (Assafir, 12/12/03).


Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, and the Libyan leader, Qaddhafi, in Tripoli yesterday. da Silva called on Arab-Latin American economic integration (Assafir, 12/10/03).	King Muhammed VI of Morocco receiving Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in Rabat yesterday (Alquds Alarabi, 12/10/03).	Belarus President, Lukashinko, greeted by President Assad in Damascus yesterday (Assafir, 12/10/03).	Elizabeth Simons, the British Minister for Middle Eastern Affairs, greeted by the Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouq Al-Shara. Simons came to thank Damascus for extraditing suspects of the Istanbul bombings to Turkey (Assafir, 12/10/03).	Franklin Graham, the US Evangelical missionary with activities in Southern Sudan, received an invitation from the Sudanese President, Al-Bashir, to resume his "charitable" work there. Graham was known for his hostile stance against the Sudanese government and against Islam (Assafir, 12/10/03).