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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Middle East Star.com http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/940f2bfd509e743b/ en-us Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:07:05 -0400 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:07:05 -0400 30 Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace process. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/680212/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:56:23 -0400 Middle East Star.com http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/680212/cs/1/ A Muslim soldier, Naser Abdo, from Texas who joined the U.S. Army last year, has said that he wants to leave the military, claiming he is a conscientious objector because Islam is a peaceful religion and his God does "not give legitimacy to the war" in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/680514/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:10:11 -0400 ANI http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/680514/cs/1/ A twelve-year-old girl, riding in a car which was driving through Tapuach Junction in the West Bank, has been hit with a stone which came through the window. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/680208/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:46:49 -0400 Middle East Star.com http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/680208/cs/1/ Gaza Lessons Harden Israeli Views on Security, Ahead of Peace Talks Israeli and Palestinian leaders have wrapped up the first round of their newly relaunched direct peace talks and may now have to con... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351608/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:22:20 -0400 VOA http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351608/ VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog invited Israel last month to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact but the Jewish state has dismissed the idea as a politically-moti... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351603/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:20:40 -0400 West Australian http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351603/ The measures were approved today and provide for the freezing of assets of 88 entities linked to Iran's nuclear program. All investment in the oil sector of the Islamic republic also suspended. But Ja... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351501/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:15 -0400 Spero News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351501/ In front of the Saudi Embassy in Colombo hundreds accuse their governments of failing to defend migrant rights. Protests triggered by the brutal story of a domestic worker tortured by her employers in... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351480/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:10 -0400 Spero News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351480/ The right words build confidence, but positions do not budge. Ahmadinejad expects failure, whilst extremists prepare coordinated attacks against Israel. For Arabs, peace between Israelis and Palestini... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351374/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:09 -0400 Spero News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351374/ The home of Iran's opposition leader, cleric Mehdi Karrubi, has reportedly been attacked by hard-liners who tried to enter the house through force. Karrubi's son, Hossein Karrubi, told RFE/RL's Radio ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351600/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:07 -0400 Spero News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351600/ Iran's Green Movement officially launched a new satellite TV channel this week in an effort to defy censorship and break the state's monopoly on information. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351601/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:03 -0400 Spero News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351601/ Gulf Keystone announced the commencement of drilling operations on its Shaikan-3 appraisal well, effective September 2, 2010. This is a shallow appraisal well, very close to the Shaikan-1 well, the si... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351400/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:11:06 -0400 Rigzone http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351400/ Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that the people of the Middle East are "capable of removing the Zionist regime from the world scene" in an annual Palestinian solidarity day... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350641/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:07:46 -0400 New York Post http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350641/ VIENNA -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.Israel refuses to confirm it possesses a nuclear arsenal bu... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351420/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:03:49 -0400 The Miami Herald http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351420/ Israeli and Palestinian leaders have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be difficult negotiations, vowing to try to settle core differences within a year and meet every two weeks. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351357/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:03:09 -0400 Mail and Guardian http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351357/ Japan's cabinet Friday approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze on figures linked to its nuclear program and tighter restrictions on financial transactions. Japan also said it ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350890/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:55:55 -0400 Turkish Daily News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350890/ Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had accused Arab leaders of 'betraying their nations' for attending relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351478/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:54:56 -0400 Haaretz http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351478/ HIGH EXPECTATIONS: Shell expects an 11 percent production increase in 2009 to 2012 with a forecast of 3.5 million barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2012. (Getty Images) http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350784/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:40:58 -0400 Arabian Business http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350784/ TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351592/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:36:29 -0400 The Star http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351592/ Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Army General David Petraeus, the top coalition commander in Afghanistan, said special forces operations against militants there are about four times more frequent than at t... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351351/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:21:35 -0400 Business Week http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351351/ Irish objections have delayed an EU deal to allow the transfer to Israel of personal data on EU citizens. The Republic of Ireland linked its move to its concerns about the use of forged Irish passpor... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350622/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:20:30 -0400 BBC http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350622/ SHEHAYBIYEH, Lebanon A series of explosions ripped through a house on the outskirts of a south Lebanon town on Friday that the state NNA news agency said was being used as an arms depot in an area co... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351596/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:06:04 -0400 IOL http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351596/ Iran's foreign minister to protest comments in which he accused Arab leaders of betrayal for attending the new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki h... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351481/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:03:49 -0400 Sun-Sentinel http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351481/ Doha Sep 03 (BNA) Qatar Premier and Foreign Minister Shaikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani today received a phone call from the U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace Senator George Mitchell, wh... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351483/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:54:12 -0400 Bahrain News Agency http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351483/ Vienna Sep 03 (BNA) International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano has called on Israel to join the Non proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allow IAEA inspectors to monitor its nuclear fa... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351604/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:54:11 -0400 Bahrain News Agency http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351604/ HIGH EXPECTATIONS: Shell expects an 11 percent production increase in 2009 to 2012 with a forecast of 3.5 million barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2012. (Getty Images) http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350807/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:53:20 -0400 Arabian Business http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38350807/ Israeli and Palestinian leaders began direct peace negotiations Thursday, saying it was time to end their conflict but projecting tough talks ahead as hardliners on both sides vowed never to accept a ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351611/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:47:25 -0400 Timmins Daily Press http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351611/ VIENNA — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IA... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351598/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:43:11 -0400 MSNBC http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351598/ CAIRO - Milad Nadim, 49, from Helwan city near the southern outskirts of greater Cairo, needs to be on the street by 6am daily to stand in a long queue for subsidized bread, or his children will go hu... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351597/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:43:04 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351597/ Seven-and-a-half-month old Tanisha Overbeeke smiles while resting on top of a leaf of the Victoria Amazonica at the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo, the Netherlands, September 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Jerry Lampen) http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351513/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:25:36 -0400 SINA http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351513/ In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Cory Freeman looks at two stranded goats near Roundup, Mont. The goats were rescued after nearly two days and are in goodcondition. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sandy Church of t... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351514/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:25:35 -0400 SINA http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38351514/ Palestinian, Israel leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that has boiled for six decades... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348906/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:12:12 -0400 World Bulletin http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348906/ Pre-paid mobile phone users in Bahrain who failed to register their details by last month’s deadline will be given a final chance to come forward before their SIM cards are permanently disconnected,... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348781/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:05:32 -0400 TeleGeography http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348781/ September 3, 2010 President Obama brought two key players together this week to talk about Mideast peace: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348903/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:57:21 -0400 NPR http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348903/ The United States is seeking Turkish permission to withdraw noncombat military equipment from Iraq through its territory, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Selç... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348513/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:46:27 -0400 Turkish Daily News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348513/ Al-Jazeera reports that the explosion in the southern Lebanese village of Shehabiyeh occurred in the home of a Hezbollah operative that was being used to store weaponry. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348892/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:45:44 -0400 Haaretz http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348892/ Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu talk in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348891/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:37:52 -0400 CNS News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348891/ The project, a mixed-use city north of Doha, was originally expected to be completed in 2015, but a company spokesman declined to give a new completion date.JP Grobbelaar, director of research and adv... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348303/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:32:56 -0400 Arabian Business http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348303/ The project, a mixed-use city north of Doha, was originally expected to be completed in 2015, but a company spokesman declined to give a new completion date.JP Grobbelaar, director of research and adv... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348779/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:32:35 -0400 Arabian Business http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348779/ Basra, Asharq Al-Awsat- A local official in Basra, southern Iraq, the country's largest oil-producing city, confirmed intelligence reports indicating that the Al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq is planning... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348717/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:30:57 -0400 asharq alawsat http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348717/ TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348887/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:29:04 -0400 The Star http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348887/ Militants in Gaza have vowed to step up attacks against Israel, following the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since 2008. A Hamas spokesman said that 13 groups had joined f... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348040/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:13:01 -0400 BBC http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348040/ (RTTNews) - A high-profile Middle East direct peace talks that were revived after nearly two years in Washington on Thursday decided to hold regular follow-up meetings every two weeks.A trilateral mee... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348885/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:09:50 -0400 Yahoo http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348885/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348884/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:02:08 -0400 Reuters http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348884/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348718/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:01:58 -0400 Reuters http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348718/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348882/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:01:46 -0400 Reuters http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348882/ peace negotiations in Washington are separated by much more than the gulf between their substantive positions. Staggering asymmetries between the two sides could seriously imperil the talks.Israeli pr... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348693/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:56:25 -0400 The Guardian http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348693/ The world's attention may have wandered from Iran, but recent reports from the country reveal a government that is as willing as ever to suppress dissent and a judiciary that still plans to execute a ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348899/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:34:23 -0400 MSNBC http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348899/ ADEN, Yemen - Yemeni authorities have arrested nine people, including a suspected local Al-Qaeda leader implicated in armed attacks in the south of the country, the defence ministry news website said ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348894/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:34:11 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348894/ BEIRUT - Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it says is an Israeli spy ring in the country, giving a list of 141 suspected agents, a diplomat said on Friday. "Lebanon has ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348893/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:34:10 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348893/ SARAJEVO - Turkey would like entire the Balkans region to integrate in Euro-Atlantic structures to ensure stability and lasting peace of the region, its President Abdullah Gul said Thursday. "Establi... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348897/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:33:58 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348897/ BRUSSELS - As Romeo and Juliet learned the hard way, love and friendship in times of conflict is rarely a simple story of boy meets girl (or whatever other combination suits your orientation). At such... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348898/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:33:53 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348898/ (RTTNews) - A high-profile Middle East direct peace talks that were revived after nearly two years in Washington on Thursday decided to hold regular follow-up meetings every two weeks.A trilateral me... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348715/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:14:56 -0400 Quote.com http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348715/ As the U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially ended Tuesday, U.S. experts are wondering what strategic lessons the United States has learnt from a conflict that cost thousands of American lives and, a... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348713/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:14:15 -0400 People's Daily http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38348713/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed to meet in the region on Sept. 14-15 and to hold talks every two weeks thereafter, U.S. Middle East peace ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346351/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:01:46 -0400 World Bulletin http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346351/ The coach of the Lebanese national basketball team said on Thursday that he believed his team played well in the ongoing world championship in Turkey. Coach Tab Baldwin told reporters that the champio... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346352/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:01:42 -0400 World Bulletin http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346352/ Slovenian basketball team's coach said that his team had played well and won its last Group B game against Iran at the World Basketball Championship. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346354/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:01:39 -0400 World Bulletin http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346354/ (MENAFN) Yemen plans to offer 15 offshore oil exploration blocks to international firms attending the oil and gas promoting conference due in October in Sanaa, the country's Oil and Minerals Minister ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346349/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:42:53 -0400 MENAFN http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346349/ (MENAFN) Property developers in Qatar are learning lessons from Dubai's sharp real estate and development crash by slowing and rethinking projects, a move which will help property prices recover next ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346350/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:42:37 -0400 MENAFN http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346350/ CAIRO – The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles a... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346116/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:39:28 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346116/ CAIRO, Sep 3, 2010 (IPS) - As Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood gears up to contest November parliamentary elections, some analysts note the relatively few gains made by the Brotherhood- led opposition ove... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38345517/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:38:22 -0400 IPS http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38345517/ ISRAELI and Palestinian leaders agreed yesterday to keep talking and produce a framework for a permanent peace deal, amid deep skepticism about success at their first such session in two years. Israel... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346347/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:37:39 -0400 Independent.ie http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346347/ Iraq - A militant allied with the Iraqi government was killed in a drive-by shooting in the north of the country, a police source said Friday.A member of the Sahwa, or Awakening Councils, was shot dea... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346191/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:31:24 -0400 Earth Times http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346191/ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Middle East Peace Talks are "doomed".It comes after the first face-to-face talks between the leaders of Israel and Palestine in two years.President ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346192/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:25:34 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346192/ CAIRO — The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyl... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346114/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:24:54 -0400 The Seattle Times http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346114/ Has this wretched man learned nothing? On and on, it went during his BBC interview: "I would absolutely...","I definitely...", "I believed absolutely clearly...", "It was very, very clear that this ch... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346172/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:02:57 -0400 The Independent http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346172/ Altitude in the Millbank Tower, London, was the setting for a highly successful launch party for BETT Middle East, prepared by organisers, Emap Connect, on Thursday 22 July. Many of the world leading ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346330/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:28 -0400 Yahoo http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346330/ In the glitz and glamour of the Venice Film festival there were strong echoes of the peace talks in Washington. Director Julian Schnabel, an American Jew was speaking at the screening of his latest fi... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346238/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:45:36 -0400 Euro News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346238/ WASHINGTON - US commanders have proposed spending up to 1.2 billion dollars over five years on Yemen's security forces, reflecting US worries about Al-Qaeda's presence in the region, officials said Th... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346334/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:25:10 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346334/ LONDON - Dubai-based retail giant Landmark Group has agreed to buy British restaurant chain Carluccio's for 90.3 million pounds (108 millioneuros, 139 million dollars), the companies said on Thursday.... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346335/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:25:07 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346335/ JEDDAH - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference on Thursday appealed to Muslims everywhere to direct their zakat tithes to relief for flood-wracked Pakistan. The Jeddah-based pan-Islamic organisa... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346336/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:25:06 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346336/ JUBA, Sudan - The undefined border between ex-civil war foes in northern and southern Sudan is creating tension in the oil-rich area as the south nears an independence vote, the International Crisis G... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346337/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:25:03 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346337/ BAMAKO - Mali officials rejected Thursday claims that a vehicle used in a foiled bomb attack in Mauritania last month was registered in their country, and defended their efforts against extremist mili... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346338/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:25:00 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346338/ PARIS - The son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, pleaded Friday for sustained international pressure to save her life. "I urge you, please k... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346339/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:24:56 -0400 Middle East Online http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346339/ That is the image of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood depicted in a TV miniseries airing in Egypt that casts a harsh light on the country's largest opposition movement just three months before a ... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346115/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:21:10 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346115/ TEHRAN (AFP) – Islamist militiamen and elite Revolutionary Guards surrounded the home of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi on Friday to prevent him from joining a government-sponsored ral... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346328/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:11:08 -0400 Yahoo! News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346328/ Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 20... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346345/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:32 -0400 SINA http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346345/ BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Many countries and international organizations have welcomed the restored Palestine-Israel direct talks, but over a dozen Palestinian militant groups cast a shadow by vowi... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346346/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:30 -0400 SINA http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346346/ Visiting United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon in Austria expressed his pleasure about restarted peace talks between Palestine and Israel. But at the same time, he pointed that the peace proce... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346341/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:18 -0400 People's Daily http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346341/ President Barack Obama formally announced that "American combat mission in Iraq has ended" in his Oval Office Address at the White House Tuesday or on the evening of August 31.President Obam... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346194/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:13 -0400 People's Daily http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38346194/ New Japan government had pledged to be "more independent in foreign policy, in another action to break its promise after local disappointment over unpopular base in Japanese island. http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38343476/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:55:33 -0400 World Bulletin http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38343476/ The home of Iran's opposition leader, cleric Mehdi Karrubi, has reportedly been attacked by hardliners who tried to enter the house through force. Karrubi's son, Hossein Karrubi, told RFE/RL's Radio F... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38343511/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:46:59 -0400 Spero News http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38343511/ Thirteen Gaza militant groups have joined forces to launch a wave of attacks against Israel, Reuters reported on Thursday.Hamas reportedly announced after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palesti... http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38343514/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:01 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.middleeaststar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/38343514/