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Sudanese President, Omar El-Bashir, carrying a white pigeon and wearing a white shawl over his civilian suit as symbols of peace, during a popular celebration of the peace agreement between the south and the north of Sudan yesterday (Assafir, 1/11/05).


Newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) receiving congratulations from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in his office in the Muqata'a compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 10, 2005. Carter led a delegation of observers to oversee the election in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.(Reuters, 1/11/05).


Newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) receiving congratulations from the European Union Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Javier Solana, in his office in the Muqata'a Presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 10, 2005. (Reuters, 1/11/05).


The wife of Jordanian prisoner Mustafa al-Surhan, jailed in an Israeli prison, holds his picture during a rally in Amman January 11, 2005. Hundreds of Jordanians gathered in Amman on Tuesday to show their solidarity with Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails. (REUTERS/ Ali Jarekji, 1/11/05).


An Iraqi security officer stands guard near a damaged police vehicle following a car bomb attack in the southern city of Basra, January 11, 2005. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/ Reuters, 1/11/05).


Maltreatment of Palestinian Juveniles Politically Detained in Israeli Occupation Prisons(Alquds, 1/11/05).


Iraqi and US soldiers trying to rescue an Iraqi soldier during an attack by the reistance on a joint US-Iraqi patrol in Mosul yesterday (Assafir, 1/11/04).


Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Quorei, giving a five or a palm, as an expression of pleasure of agreement, to the newly elected Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Presidential compound in Ramallh, yesterday (Assafir, 1/11/05).


Palestinian youths run as an Israeli stun grenade explodes during a protest in the West Bank village of Bani Zaid near Ramallah, January 12, 2005. Palestinians were protest the Israeli demolition of a house Israelis alleged two members of the resistance were found in. (REUTERS/ Loay Abu haykel 1/12/05).


An Israeli occupation soldier views an Israeli army bulldozer destroying a home where two alleged members of Palestinian resistance were found, in the West Bank village of Bani Zaid near Ramallah, January 12, 2005. Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead the two Palestinian men in its first raid since the election of the new Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. Two other Palestinian fighters were killed in Rafah afterr attacking Israeli soldiers. (REUTERS/ Loay Abu haykel 1/12/05).


U.S. Army forces arrive to secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in the northern city of Mosul, January 12, 2005. The bomb charred at least one Iraqi security vehicle and damaged another. The U.S. forces and Iraqi authorities had no immediate confirmation about casualties. (REUTERS/ Namir Noor-eldeen, 1/12/05).


Acehnese school girls attending an open-air class in the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after the destruction of their school during the tsunami disaster. (Annahar, 1/12/05).


A Somalian walks through debris on the island of Hafun which was damaged by the tsunami which hit the Indian Ocean coastline of Somalia December 26, 2004. Hafun was the worst hit area, almost all its 4,500 inhabitants were made homeless. (REUTERS/Francesco Broli, 1/12/05).


Israeli-Turkish military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea ... against whom? (Assafir, 1/12/05).


Turkish Prime Minister, Recip Tayeb Erdogan, with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to increase trade between the two countries to $15 billion annually. (Annahar, 1/12/05).


Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a civilian in the town of Bait Lahya, north of Gaza Strip, and wounded and arrested several others throughout Gaza Strip and West Bank. Alaa Hassouna, 42, was shot by Israeli forces northeast of the town. (IPC, 1/13/05).


2 Palestinian Civilians Killed, 11 Injured, 10 Arrested by Israeli Occupation Unprovoked Raids on Bait Lahya and Al-Buraij (IPC, 1/13/05).


A Palestinian woman crying after Israeli occupation soldiers had assassinated two Palestinians near Ramallah yesterday (Assafir, 1/13/05).


Israeli occupation soldiers terrorizing the town of Tarqumia, near the West Bank city of Hebron, after imposing curfew on its residents, on January 13, 2005. (Reuters, 1/13/05).


US soldiers positioned on the Iraqi-Iranian border yesterday. (Annahar, 1/13/05).


US soldiers standing beside a destroyed vehicle as a result of a resistance attack in the Iraqi city of Basra yesterday (Assafir, 1/13/05).


Algerian Foreign Minister, Abdul Aziz Belkhadem, and Arab League Secretary-General, Amr Moussa, in Algerian yesterday. The topic was reforming the Arab League. (Annahar, 1/13/05).


Two Iraqi security officers examining the site of a car bomb explosion in Basra yesterday (Assafir, 1/13/05).


A Polish member of the EU Parliament lifting his voting poster. The EU Parliament voted for the EU Constitution yesterday (Assafir, 1/13/05).


Foreign Affairs Commissioner of the European Union, accompanied with the UNRWA President Peter Hansen, examining the destruction inflicted by Israeli occupation forces on the Jabalia refugee camp, in Gaza Strip (Annahar, 1/13/05).

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