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| Eid
Celebration Fireworks (Al-Riyadh, 11/25/03). |
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| An
Iraqi school girl in her classroom, in An Nassirya, yesterday (Assafir,
11/25/03). |
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Malaysian girl, Alya Khairi, 6, plays with a sparkler on the eve
of Eid al-Fitr celebration in Kota Bharu, 500 km north of Kuala
Lumpur yesterday. - (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 11/25/03). |
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Israeli occupation soldier pointing his gun at
Palestinians and humiliating
them in Hebron yesterday. (Assafir,
11/25/03). |
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Palestinian mothers holding photos of their sons during a sit-in
activity in the Gaza Red Cross Center, reminding the world of
the plight of about 7,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in
Israeli prisons and detention camps (Assafir,
11/25/03). |
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Citizens buy sweets on Monday from a shop in Bayader Wadi Essair
area, western Amman. Today is the first day of Eid Al Fitr
holiday, which marks the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan (Photo
by Rami Abdelrahman, Jordan Times, 11/25/03).
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| Chirac
showing a photo of Leo, Blair's son, during his visit to London (Assafir,
11/25/03). |
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Two suspects connected to the
four suicide bombings in Istanbul in the past week cover their
faces as they are brought to the state security court by police
in Istanbul on Monday. (REUTERS photo
by Fatih Saribas, Jordan Times, 11/25/03). |
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Reporters pass an Iraqi
policeman standing at the entrance of Al Arabiya TV offices in
Baghdad's Al Mansour neighborhood on Monday. The Dubai-based
satellite television channel announced its Baghdad bureau had
been closed down by Iraqi police after the US-appointed Iraqi interim Governing
Council banned it from working in the country for incitement of
murder since it broadcast a Saddam Hussein tape calling for
attacks on council members (AFP PHOTO by KARIM SAHIB, Jordan
Times, 11/25/03). |
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An Iraqi screaming in front of a US tank, during a search in his
son's store, in Baghdad yesterday (Assafir,
11/25/03). |
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| The
wreckage of the US helicopter, which crashed yesterday near the
Baghram airbase, in Afghanistan, killing five US
soldiers. Taliban claimed responsibility (Annahar, Assafir, 11/25/03). |
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| An oil
pipe on fire after an Iraqi attack with explosive, south of
Kirkuk yesterday (Annahar, 11/25/03). |
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| Iraqis
firing a missile at the German DHL plane, near Baghdad Airport
yesterday (Bab, 11/25/03). |
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Jordanian prisoner Ibrahim al-Qarni, charged by Israel as being
a member of the Fatah resistance organization, kisses a relative
upon his release from an Israeli jail on Tuesday. Israel freed
10 Jordanian prisoners on Tuesday in what it called a goodwill
gesture to Jordan's King Abdullah on the Muslim Eid al-Fitr
holiday. The release was an Israeli attempt to deprive Hizbullah
the credit of releasing them in the coming swap - (Reuters,
Khaleej Times, 11/26/03). |
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Followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr pray in front
of US army tank during Islam's biggest festival Eid al-Fitr,
ending the fasting month of Ramadan, in the Baghdad suburb of Al
Sadr city yesterday. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 11/26/03). |
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Palestinian girls during the Eid prayers in Gaza yesterday. (Saudi Aljazirah,
11/26/03). |
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| Khadija
Bin Ganna, Aljazeera TV anchorwoman, started wearing the Islamic
dress (hijab) yesterday, as a sign of piety, while other women in
the channel are still without hijab (Al-Riyadh, 11/26/03). |
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Indonesian President, Megawati Sukarno, during the Eid sermon,
in Jakarta, yesterday (Allittihad, 11/26/03). |
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Saudi police killed two men yesterday claimed to have planned an
attack on civilians in Riyadh (Al-Riyadh, 11/26/03).
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Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Dr. Ian Paisley arrives
to cast his vote in the elections to Northern Ireland's power
sharing assembly, at a polling station in east Belfast, November
26, 2003. Northern Ireland's divided people voted in a poll
likely to further cloud the British-ruled province's stalled
peace process by giving gains to radical Catholic and Protestant
parties. (Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters, 11/26/03).
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Relatives
look at the body of nine-year-old Hani Selim Al-Rabayah who was
shot in the head in cold blood by Israelis in the southern Gaza
Strip town of Rafah on Wednesday. (AFP,
11/27/03). |
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"WAR ON TERROR": Two "peaceful" Israeli
occupation tanks approaching a Palestinian "terrorist" boy in
occupied Jenin !!! on November 27, 2003. (REUTERS/Saeed
Dahlah, 11/27/03). |
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| Imam
Khamenei leading the Eid prayer in Tehran yesterday. In his
speech, he said that the US is sinking deep in the Iraqi swamp (Alquds
Alarabi, 11/27/03). |
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.Pakistani soldier Sher Jamal Khan (L) and Indian soldier D. K
Sharma exchange gifts to mark Eid al-Fitr, at the India-Pakistan
Wagah border crossing, on Wednesday. Nuclear rivals India and
Pakistan began a cease-fire on Wednesday along their frontier in
the disputed Kashmir region. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 11/27/03). |
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| Former
heavyweight boxing legend Muhammad Ali performs a magic trick
during the "Tribute to Bambi" charity gala in the northern
German town of Hamburg on Nov.26, 2003. Ali will be honoured
with the "Millenium Bambi 2003" media award for his lifetime
achievement. (Khaleej Times, 11/27/03). |
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| Kristen
Patrick along with her children, Noah, 3, Daisy, 1, and friend,
Owen Mansfield, 4, right, all of New York, feed a wild turkey in
Riverside Park's Hippo Playground, on Nov.26, 2003, in New York.
The birds have been seen strutting around random parks in the city
as the wild turkey population in New York state has grown from
near-extinction in the 1950s, to 65,000 in the 1990s, said city
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. (Khaleej Times, 11/27/03). |
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Technicians inflate the "Pokemon Pikachu" balloon on Nov.26,
2003, in New York. Pikachu is one of the many balloons scheduled
to be part of the 77th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Khaleej
Times, 11/27/03). |
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The Thanksgiving story in the US:
Captain Miles Standish (L), portrayed by Michael Hall, walks the
streets of Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts
November 26, 2003. Plimoth Plantation is a living history museum
depicting life for the English pilgrims and local Native
Americans in 1627 in Plymouth, site of a harvest feast in 1621
that has come to be known as Thanksgiving. (REUTERS/Brian
Snyder, 11/27/03). |
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Chinese-born U.S. resident and American University professor Gao
Zhan, on November 26, 2003 pleaded guilty to illegally selling
to China high-tech equipment that can be used in weapons
systems, a Justice Department official said. Zhan, a U.S.-based
Chinese sociologist convicted by China in 2001 for spying for
rival Taiwan, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in
Alexandria, Virginia, the official said. Gao is pictured during
a press conference after arriving at Washington Dulles
International Airport, in this July 26, 2001 file photo.
(REUTERS/ Hyungwon Kang/Files, 11/27/03).
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Ilina Tregopova, the Russian Journalisst, published her book
about scandals of previous Soviet Presidents and how their
offices manipulated the media (Alittihad, 11/27/03).
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Palestinian, Yassir Abed Rabbo, and the Israeli, Youssi Bellin,
have been invited to meet with Colin Powell in Washington, as a
sign of support to the Geneva Accord (Alquds Alarabi, 11/27/03).
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