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President Yasser Arafat receiving
Prince Turki Bin Talal in Ramallah yesterday, representative of a UN
charitable organization (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 7/2/03). |
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A file photo shows part of the
8-metre-high concrete fence erected by Israel alongside the West
Bank town of Qalqiliya in an attempt to stop Palestinian attackers
from entering Israel (afp photo, Jordan Times, 7/2/03). |
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Bodies lay covered, one with an Iraqi
flag, outside a damaged mosque where a blast killed eight Iraqis in
the restive Iraqi town of Fallujah on Tuesday (photo by Faleh
Kheiber/Reuters, Jordan Times, 7/2/03). |
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An Iraqi showing copies of the Holy
Qur'an stained with blood, after several people were killed and
injured inside Al-Hassan Mosque in Fallouja by a US missile (An
Nahar, 7/2/03). |
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Israeli bulldozer demolishing
Shahabuddin Mosque in Nazreth (An Nahar, 7/2/03). |
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Arab Israelis protest on Tuesday the
demolishing of the foundations of a planned mosque near Nazareth's
main Christian shrine (afp photo, Jordan Times, 7/2/03). |
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A US military vehicle destroyed in an
Iraqi attack in Al-Yousufiya, Baghdad. (An Nahar, 7/2/03). |
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US soldiers examining a US vehicle
destroyed in an Iraqi attack in Al-Mustansiriya, Baghdad. (An Nahar,
7/2/03). |
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Activists of the Communist
Party of India, shout slogans to say that Indian troops should not
be sent to Iraq on the request of the United States, in Bombay on
July 1, 2003. More than 100 activists participated in the
demonstration. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 7/2/03). |
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Tens of thousands of Hong Kong
residents demonstrating in the 6th anniversary of the return of Hong
Kong to China, demanding more freedoms. (An Nahar, 7/2/03).
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Funeral of Mahmoud Ahmed Shawar, a
Palestinian activist from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who was executed
with bullets in his head after his arrest by Israeli occupation
soldiers, in Qalqilia, in violation to the Ceasefire. (Alquds
Alarabi, 7/4/03). |
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An Iraqi boy throwing a rock at a
burning US military vehicle, which was attacked in Baghdad
yesterday. (An Nahar, 7/4/03). |
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Iraqis on top and around a US military
vehicle, which was attacked in Baghdad, yesterday. (An Nahar,
7/4/03). |
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Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud
Abbas, horrified to see the destruction inflicted by Israeli
occupation forces on the Palestinian industrial zone in Beit Hanoon,
during their reoccupation period (Alquds Alarabi, 7/4/03). |
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A Palestinian woman, whose house was
destroyed by Israeli occupation forces in northern Gaza Strip,
screaming on the face of Prime Minister Abbas, yesterday. (Al-Quds
Al-Arabi, 7/4/03). |
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Israeli occupation soldiers humiliating
a Palestinian woman at a military checkpoint in the West Bank
yesterday. (Alittihad, 7/4/03). |
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| Mariam Rajavi paying
respect to the two women who burned themselves in protest to her
arrest 15 days ago (An Nahar, 7/4/03). |
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Gerhard Schroeder accepted Berlusconi's
apology for referring to a German member of the European Parliament
as a Nazi guard (An Nahar, 7/4/03). |
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Berlusconi's German fiasco was not the
first one. He
insulted Palestinians by refusing to meet with President Arafat last month.
Prime Minister Abbas reciprocated by not meeting with him. Here,
he's covering his face during a meeting in Rome yesterday (Alquds
Alarabi, 7/4/03). |
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Nabila Baqai (L) and her husband Iqbal
Baqai adjust a few pages of what is claimed to be the world's
largest handwritten coloured Qu’ran, while putting it on display
during the ICNA Convention in Philadelphia, USA on July 4. The
Qu’ran weighs 3000 lbs (around 1500 kgs), has 606 pages, and took
26,000 man-hours to create. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 7/5/03).
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Palestinian Muslims, under age of 40,
pray outside Al-Aqsa Mosque as Israeli police prevented them from
reaching the Jerusalem Islamic Holy Shrine for Friday prayers
yesterday. (PMC, 7/5/03). |
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Two Chechen female suicide bombers
killed themselves and 16 other Russians in Moscow today (Reuters,
7/5/03). |
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47 killed and 56 injured in an attack
on a Shi'a Mosque in Pakistan. (An Nahar, 7/5/03). |
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Supporters of the opposition alliance
against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's government carry a
poster of Musharraf, calling him traitor with a poster of al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden at a rally on July 4 in Lahore. Nation-wide
rallies were held to condemn the disqualification of the alliance
member. The placard in the center reads "Death to Israel."
(AP, Khaleej Times, 7/5/03).
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Liberian President, Charles Taylor,
accepting to leave the country after the arrival of an international
force. (An Nahar, 7/5/03). |
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An anti-Taylor demonstration in
Monrovial yesterday. (An Nahar, 7/5/03). |
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Israeli policemen preventing a
Palestinian from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayer (An Nahar,
7/5/03). |
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Iraqis in Baghdad, listening to the new
tape of Saddam Hussain (An Nahar, 7/5/03). |
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Greenpeace activists warning the US
ruler of Iraq, Paul Bremer, to act now to prevent a nuclear disaster
at the Tuwaitha site (Alquds Alarabi, 7/5/03). |
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More Iraqi attacks on US soldiers and
vehicles (Alittihad, 7/5/03). |
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US soldiers examining a location where
a US vehicle was attacked in Balad, Iraq (Al-Riyadh, 7/5/03). |
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