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An Israeli occupation soldier
pointing his gun at a Palestinian after arresting and
handcuffing him, in Nablus yesterday. (An Nahar, 9/4/03). |
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An Israeli occupation soldier
ordering an elderly Palestinian to go back home in
the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday (An Nahar, 9/4/03). |
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Palestinian Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas (L) arrives at the Palestinian parliament in
Ramallah on Thursday. Prime Minister Abbas, struggling to
win more power from Yasser Arafat and push a US-backed
plan for peace with Israel, called on Palestinian
lawmakers to back him or sack him. - (Reuters, Khaleej
Times, 9/4/03).
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French President Jacques
Chirac (front L) and French Foreign Minister Dominique de
Villepin (front R) meet with German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder (rear L) and German Foreign Minister Joschka
Fischer in the famous Dresden castle Zwinger September 4,
2003. Chirac and Schroeder said they were not ready yet to
accept a U.S. draft for a new United Nations resolution on
Iraq. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters, 9/4/03). |
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Five Russians were killed and
many injured in a train explosion near Chechnya yesterday.
(An Nahar, 9/4/03). |
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US soldiers interrogating an
Iraqi woman about her husband, in her home, in Tikrit,
yesterday. (An Nahar, 9/4/03). |
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An Iraqi boy lifting his arms
while a US soldier is watching (Al-Khaleej, 9/4/03). |
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King Abdallah of Jordan
received by the Iranian leader, Khamenie in Tehran
yesterday (An Nahar, 9/4/03). |
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Saudi Crown Prince, Abdullah,
and Russian Prime Minister, Kasyanov, in Moscow yesterday.
(An Nahar, 9/4/03). |
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Palestinians demonstrating
against Prime Minister Abbas in Ramallah yesterday (An
Nahar, 9/5/03). |
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Palestinian Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas between Ahmed Korei and Saeb Erikat during
the session of the Palestinian parliament in
Ramallah on Thursday. (An Nahar, 9/5/03).
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French President Jacques
Chirac (front L) with the German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder, rejected the US Iraq resolution as falling
short. (An Nahar, 9/5/03). |
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Joseph Garang, the Sudanese
rebel leader, met with the Vice President of the Sudan in
a reconciliation effort. (An Nahar, 9/5/03). |
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US soldiers patrolling
streets of the Iraqi city of Tikrit,
yesterday. (An Nahar, 9/5/03). |
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Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah
visits a stall after opening an exhibition of Saudi
products in Moscow. (SPA, Arab News, 9/5/03). |
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The Hamas member Muhammed Al-Hanbali
(27) who was assassinated by Israeli occupation forces in
Nablus yesterday. Before his death, he exchanged fire with
the Israeli force killing one soldier and injuring three.
Then, the Israelis destroyed the seven-story building
making 28 families homeless (Assafir, 9/6/03). |
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Palestinian Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas leaves his office shortly after submitting
his resignation to parliament in the West Bank city of
Ramallah. Prime Minister Abbas, increasingly unpopular and
worn out by a power struggle with Yasser Arafat, submitted
his resignation on Saturday, dealing a serious blow to a
US-backed peace plan. (AP, Khaleej Times, 9/6/03).
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Anti-globalization protesters
in confrontation with the Italian police outside the EU
meetings in Riva del Garda (An Nahar, 9/6/03). |
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A group called the
Revolutionary Struggle announced its responsibility for
the two bombs that exploded in Athens, Greece, yesterday. (An
Nahar, 9/6/03).
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John Garang, the Sudanese
rebel leader (left) and the Sudanese Vice President, Ali
Taha (right) shaking hands while their host, the Kenyan
Foreign Minister, Mosewoka, watching in the middle (Assafir,
9/6/03). |
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Al-Masri seven-story building
in Nablus, blown up by Israeli occupation forces as a
collective punishment against Palestinians in the city (Assafir,
9/6/03). |
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Al-Masri seven-story building
that Israeli occupation forces destroyed in Nablus,
yesterday (An Nahar, 9/6/03). |
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US Secretary of Defense,
Donald Rumsfeld, visiting Iraq, here saluted by an Iraqi
policeman as he passed by. (An Nahar, 9/6/03). |
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Traces of an attack with
bullets against the Sunni Mosque of Qiba, in Baghdad,
yesterday, in which three worshippers were injured. (An
Nahar, 9/6/03). |
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The Arab League
Secretary-General (left): There is a trend in the League
to accept representatives of the US-appointed Iraqi
government (Assafir, 9/6/03). |
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A photo of Tayseer Allouni,
the correspondent of Aljazeera Qatari TV. He was arrested
in his country, Spain, in a move to intimidate
journalists. Tayseer became famous for covering the war in
Afghanistan and Iraq. (An Nahar, 9/6/03). |
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