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President Arafat meeting with the British Minister of Foreign Office, Elizabeth Simmons, in Ramallah yesterday. Britain has defied the Sharon-Bush policy of boycotting the Palestinian President, who was elected by 83% of the Palestinian people (Assafir, 1/22/04).


President Arafat meeting with the British Minister of Foreign Office, Elizabeth Simmons, in Ramallah yesterday. Britain has defied the Sharon-Bush policy of boycotting the Palestinian President, who was elected by 83% of the Palestinian people (Al-Ayyam, 1/22/04).


Israeli occupation soldiers stop Palestinians for an ID check at Bet Eba checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday. At checkpoints, Palestinians are insulted, humiliated, and delayed for long hours just to pass between their own cities and villages. (EPA, Arab News, 1/22/04).


Children of the Palestinian woman Mona Ismael (31) crying after the Israeli occupation soldiers shot their mother to death in Rafah yesterday. (Assafir, 1/22/04).


Supporters of the Iraqi Shi'a cleric, Al-Sistani, demonstrating in Baghdad demanding direct elections. Sunni and Kurdish Iraqis oppose elections under foreign occupation. (Annahar, 1/22/04).


Iranian Vice President, Muhammed Abtahi, announcing that he and some ministers gave their resignations to President Khatami in protest to the ban on reformists running for elections. He also hinted that President Khatami may resign himself. (Annahar, 1/22/04).


Greek President, Constantin Stafanopolos, and the Lebanese President, Emil Lahoud, in Beirut yesterday (Annahar, 1/22/04).


Abdul Aziz Al-Shaikh, Mufti of Saudi Arabia (left) criticized the appearance of Saudi women without headscarves in the Jeddah Economic Forum yesterday. Here talking with the Crown Prince Abdullah. (Al-Ra'i, 1/22/04).


Gerhard Schroeder beating a Kenyan drum. (Alittiahad, 1/22/04).


Pakistani President, Musharraf, speaking to Business Forum in Istanbul yesterday (Annahar, 1/22/04)


A number of Iraqis arrested by US soldiers and carried to detention center in Baghdad. (Assafir, 1/22/04).


Anti-globalization demonstrators blocking a road near Davos, Switzerland, yesterday. (Assafir, 1/22/04).


Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John Edwards attends a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire January 21, 2004. Edwards promised New Hampshire voters an optimistic and inclusive America, hoping to build on his second-place finish in Iowa with a strong showing in the state's primary next week. Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, 1/22/04).


Former Enron Chief Accounting Officer Rick Causey (R) is taken in handcuffs by FBI agents to the Federal Courthouse in Houston to face charges related to the energy giant's financial collapse, January 22, 2004. Causey has been indicted on five counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. (Photo by Richard Carson/Reuters, 1/22/04).


Dust rising up after Israeli occupation forces blew up a 4-storey building in Nablus, as a collective punishment, yesterday. (Alquds, 1/23/04).


The Palestinian child, Muhsen Ad Da'our (12), was killed yesterday by Israeli occupation soldier east of Gaza City while playing near a cemetery with his friends. Doctors said the killing happened from a close distance, i.e. cold-blooded killing (Alquds Alarabi, 1/23/04).


An Israeli occupation bulldozer destroying two Palestinian cars in a Nablus street yesterday. (Al-Ayyam, Al-Ra'i, 1/23/04).


Children of the Palestinian woman Mona Ismael (31) crying during her funeral. Mona was shot dead by trigger-happy Israeli occupation soldiers during their latest brutal raid on the Rafah refugee camp on Tuesday. (Annahar, 1/23/04).


The price of maintaining the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Siege and Fear. An Israeli journalist trying a steel door, to be used in Israeli buses to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers. (Assafir, 1/23/04).


54 Iranian Reformist Members of Parliament swearing that they won't run for election if anyone of them is banned from running by Conservative controllers. (Annahar, 1/23/04).


Partelmows I, Patriarch of the Masconi Orthodox Church arrived from Turkey. President Fidel Castro welcomed him at Havana airport. Then, together, they inaugurated the Orthodox Cathedral in the Cuban capital. (Annahar, 1/23/04).


Indian Deputy Prime Minister, Advani, shaking hands with the Kashmiri leader Wahad, after two hours of peace talks in New Delhi yesterday. (Assafir, 1/23/04).


A US soldier body searching an Iraqi man, after a day of many attacks by the Iraqi resistance. (Al-Ra'i, 1/23/04).


A journalist looks at his colleague climb out of the spider hole in which Saddam Hussein was hiding when he was captured by U.S. troops in last month near Tikrit, December 15, 2003. The hole could be filled in to prevent it becoming a 'shrine,' a U.S. military spokesman said on January 23, 2004. The U.S. 4th Infantry Division, which captured Saddam at a farm in central Iraq last month, has asked for permission to destroy the hole and the nearby mud hut which were his last refuges. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters, 1/23/04).


An overview of the Davos resort, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is held. (Annahar, 1/23/04).


Democratic presidential candidates (from L) former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, retired general Wesley Clark, the Rev. Al Sharpton, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA), U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-NC), U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and U.S. Rep. Denis Kucinich (D-OH) pose at the Democratic debate at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire January 22, 2004. It is the final debate between the candidates before New Hampshire's January 27 primary. Photo by Jim Bourg/Reuters, 1/23/04).


Kashmiris gather by the Neelum river to communicate with their relatives across the riverbank in Indian Kashmir (news - web sites), Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004 in Chiliana on the Line of Control in Pakistani Kashmir. Thousands of people kept apart for nearly a generation in the dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan came together on a heavily militarized riverbank Wednesday in the biggest family reunion since a cease-fire was declared two months ago. (AP Photo/Roshan Mughal, 1/23/04).


Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims attending the Friday prayers in the Makkah sanctuary yesterday. They are expected to exceed a million in the Eid prayers, within the following eight days. (Alquds, 1/24/04).


David Kay, who stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction, said on January 23, 2004 that he does not believe there were any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. 'I don't think they existed,' Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview. David Kay should come forward and tell if he was used before the war to give the impression that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (Photo by William Philpott/Reuters, 1/24/04).


Richard Butler (L) allowed himself to be used, through his statements, to give the impression that Iraq was not cooperating with him concerning weapons of mass destruction, which contributed to the pro-war media campaign and gave it its major pseudo argument. David Kay has quit his post as leader of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which so far has failed to find any actual arms, and will be replaced by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer (R), the CIA said on January 23, 2004. The search has so far not found any actual stockpiles of such weapons, which critics say is an indication that the White House exaggerated the threat from Iraq in making its case for war last year. Duelfer is seen with U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler(L) in this August 1998 file photo. Photo by Peter Morgan/Reuters (Al-Ayyam, Al-Ra'i, 1/23/04).


Palestinians trying to clear the Nablus neighborhood in which Israeli occupation forces blew up a 4-storey building two days ago. (Alhayat Aljadedah, 1/24/04).


A Sudanese child sleeping in a refugee camp for civilians running away from the civil war in Darfour, in western Sudan (Al-Ra'i, 1/24/04).


Anti-Wall demonstrations yesterday (Al-Ayyam, 1/24/04).


Ayatullah Ahmed Jenati, Chairman of the Council for the Protection of the Constitution, assured Reformist members of parliament, that the Council will correct the mistakes of banning them from re-running for elections. (Annahar, 1/24/04).


Followers of pro-government, Correction Movement, chanting slogans in support for the Algerian President Boutafliqa. The CM broke away from NLF when the it named Ali Bin Flis as its candidate (not Boutafliqa) for next presidential election. (Assafir, 1/24/04).


Ivanov and de Villepin: We're working for an international conference to settle the Iraqi problem. (Assafir, 1/24/04).


Annan and Kharrazi in Davos yesterday (Assafir, 1/24/04).


An Iraqi woman lifting the red flag of the Iraqi Communist Party, whose offices were damaged by a bomb yesterday. Iraqi Communists, many of whom are Kurds, are perceived as collaborators with the US occupation authorities, and they are represented in the US-appointed Governing Council. (Annahar, 1/24/04).


A snow storm hit some Mediterranean countries. This view is from Instanbul, Turkey (Annahar, 1/24/04).


A snow storm hit some Mediterranean countries. This view is from Beirut, Lebanon. (Annahar, 1/24/04).


Sea waters flooding the coastal highway, near Sidon, as a result of the wind storm that hit South Lebanon yesterday (Assafir, 1/24/04).


Democratic presidential candidates (from L) former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, retired general Wesley Clark, the Rev. Al Sharpton, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA), U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-NC), U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and U.S. Rep. Denis Kucinich (D-OH) pose at the Democratic debate at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire January 22, 2004. It is the final debate between the candidates before New Hampshire's January 27 primary. (Annahar, 1/24/04).