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Palestinian women crying as a result of teargas bombs fired at
them by Israeli occupation soldiers in the village of Sourik, in
the West Bank, during a protest against the Sharon Land-Grab
Wall. (Assafir,
2/26/04). |
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| Palestinian youngmen throwing
stones at Israeli occupation soldiers during their raid on
Ramallah Banks, in which they stole $3 million from the Arab
Bank (Al-Khaleej, 2/26/04). |
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| One of the Israeli
occupation soldiers who raided the Arab Bank in Ramallah
yesterday, where they stole $7-9 million (PMC, Assafir,
2/26/04). |
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| President Yassir
Arafat in a Fateh Revolutionary Council meeting preparing for a
general congress of Fateh in order to dismantle the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades (Assafir, 2/26/04). |
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| Macedonian President Boris
Trajkovski was killed February 26, 2004 when his plane crashed
into Bosnian mountains in thick fog, officials said. The
47-year-old president had been on a short flight to the Bosnian
city of Mostar for an economic conference. Trajkovski talks to
the press in Kumanovo in this August 18 2001 file photo. (Photo
by Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters, 2/26/04). |
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Saudi Foriegn Minister, Saud Al-Faisal, rejecting US demands of
reform saying that it should start with solving the Palestinian
problem and stabilizing Iraq. (Assafir, 2/26/04). |
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| Thousands of Iraqi
Turkmen demonstrated in Baghdad yesterday demanding more
representation. Here, a man wrapped himself with a barbed wire
representing the political suffering of his community. (Assafir, 2/26/04). |
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| Some of the building which fell as
a result of the earthquake in the Moroccan city of Um Zoron. (Assafir,
2/26/04). |
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| The
Canadian Louise Arbor, a former judge in the World War-Crimes
Court, was appointed by the UN General Assembly yesterday as the
new Human Rights Commissioner, replacing the late de Milo, who was
killed in Iraq. (Assafir,
2/26/04). |
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| Representatives of the US, South
Korea, North Korea, China, Japan, and Russia at the opening of
their talks in Beijing yesterday. (Assafir, 2/26/04). |
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India's national security
advisor Brajesh Mishra (L) meets with Iran's top nuclear
negotiator and security council chief Hassan Rowhani in New
Delhi on Thursday. Rowhani is here on a one-day visit to hold
talks with Indian leaders. - (Khaleej Times, Reuters, 2/26/04) |
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| Two
fighters from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades came out of a tunnel to
surprise Israeli soldiers in their camp north of Gaza Strip.
They exchanged fire killing one Israeli soldier before getting
killed. (Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 2/27/04). |
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| A
Palestinian youngman hitting an Israeli teargas bomb with his
shoes away from demonstrators. Israeli occupation soldiers
killed two demonstrators and injured more than a hundred of them
during anti-Wall demonstrations in the West Bank. An-Nahar,
2/27/04). |
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A burning car after an attack on its
passengers in Baquba, Iraq, yesterday. An Iraqi police officer
was killed in the attack. (Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 2/27/04). |
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| A
burning car after an attack on its passengers in Baquba, Iraq,
yesterday. An Iraqi police officer was killed in the attack. (Assafir,
2/27/04). |
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| Haitian
rebels proceeding in the capital. (An-Nahar, 2/26/04). |
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| Iraqis
chanting anti-occupation slogans in Baquba. (An-Nahar, 2/26/04). |
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| Former
British cabinet member, Clare Short, said that the Blair
government spied on Kofi Annan during the period preceding the
war and that she read transcripts of his telephone
calls.(Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 2/27/04). |
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| US
Under Secretary of State, James Kelly meeting with his Korean
counterpart, Kim Chai Gual, in Beijing yesterday.(An-Nahar,
2/27/04). |
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| Shirin
Ebadi and European Commissioner criticizing Iranian elections
(An-Nahar, 2/27/04). |
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President Assad meeting with the Iranian Defense Minister,
Shamkhani, in Damascus yesterday.(Assafir, 2/27/04). |
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| Libyan
Foreign Minister, Shalqam (left) and Egyptian Foreign Minister,
Maher, in Sert, Libya, yesterday. (An-Nahar, 2/27/04). |
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| Israeli
opposition leader, Shimon Peres, meeting with Egyptian President,
Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo yesterday. Peres said he supported
Sharon's plan to evacuate the Israeli settlements in Gaza but he
wanted the plan to extend to the West Bank settlements, too. (Assafir,
2/27/04). |
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Unprovoked Israeli occupation soldiers storming the Al-Aqsa
Mosque compound, in occupied East Jerusalem, throwing teargas
bomb on worshippers and shooting at them with rubber bullets. (Al-Ayyam, 2/28/04). |
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| The
Dome of the Rock, the center of Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, where
Muslim worshippers were attacked by Israeli occupation soldiers
who threw teargas bombs and fired rubber bombs at them. 24
worshippers were wounded in the unprovoked raid. (An-Nahar,
2/28/04). |
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Jessie Jackson, representative of
African Americans, in the middle between Libyan leader, Mu'ammer
Al-Qaddhafi, and Mozambique President Joakim Chisslo, at the
opening ceremonies of the African Union summit, in Sert, Libya,
yesterday. (Annahar, 2/28/04). |
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| Qaddhafi putting on
his gown before presiding over the African Union emergency
summit, in Sert, Libya, yesterday (Assafir, 2/28/04). |
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| A Shi'a
Iraqi procession in Baghdad yesterday in the anniversary of
Al-Hussain martyrdom. Processioners hit themselves with edges of
swords to shed their own blood in remorse and sadness for the
killing of Al-Hussain. (Assafir,
2/28/04). |
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Presidents Mubarak, Bin Ali, and Qaddhafi, attending the African
summit conference in Sert, Libya, yesterday.(Al-Ahram, 2/28/04). |
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Algerian presidential candidate, Ben Flis, warning of electoral
violations in the April presidential elections..(Al-Ra'i,
2/28/04). |
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Faryal Al-Masri, the first
Saudi-American to run for elections in the US. She's running as
a Democrat to win a seat in the US House of Representative for
the 37th District of California (Arab News, 2/28/04). |
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In the Thursday Edwards-Kerry debate in Los Angeles, Kerry
repeated Sharon's political rhetoric: "There's no Palestinian
peace partner." Thus, he is not different from George Bush in
blindly following Sharon's policies. (Annahar, 2/28/04). |
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