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British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott leaves 10 Downing Street after a meeting with the Prime Minister Tony Blair, London, Wednesday, May 9, 2007.
Britain   Iraq   Photos   War   Wikipedia: Iraq Inquiry		  The Star 
UK former deputy PM doubted Iraq WMD intelligence
Fri 30 Jul 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deputy prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq said on Friday he had doubts about intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction,... (photo: AP / Sang Tan)
An Afghan man holding his son, both injured slightly in a suicide car bomb attack on an Italian military convoy, walks away from the site in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.
Afghanistan   Photos   Security   War   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		  Gulf News 
For Afghans, the situation is not getting any better
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Seven children killed by rockets in a mosque, a 16-year-old girl abused by a district police chief, more than 80 civilians killed in bomb attacks written off as insurgents. This dismal glimpse into... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup)
An unidentified man stands near a gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu Ogba, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. OPEC and the European Union agreed in Vienna Wednesday to maintain a close "energy dialogue," stressing the importance of working together to help stabilize and secure the world's oil markets. Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria's oil minister and president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, met with Martin Bartenstein, the energy minister of Austria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency. In a statement, the EU presidency said both reaffirmed the need to stay in close touch on energy issues.  The New York Times  Fri 30 Jul 2010
Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
NICE — In years past, Africa was always the outsiders’ cornucopia, the font of gold and diamonds, slaves and minerals, cotton and rubber and, more latterly, oil. These days, the... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, July 16, 2010.  Asia Times  Fri 30 Jul 2010
China finds a friend in Germany
     Jul 31, 2010 China finds a friend in Germany... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)
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With a poster of soldiers in the background, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, U.N. Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, left, and Tea Banh, right, Cambodian defense minister, pose during a U.S.-backed peacekeeping exercise dubbed "Angkor Sentinel 2010" at the Cambodian tank command headquarters in Kampong Speu province, 65 kilometers (42 miles) west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, July 17, 2010. Asia Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep
     Jul 31, 2010 US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Asia   Cambodia   Defence   Photos   US
In a Monday, July 26, 2010 photo provided by the Navy Visual News Service, U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea ships transit the East Sea Monday, July 26, 2010 in a 13-ship formation led by the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Tuscon (SSN 770). Asia Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
The (war) games go on
     Jul 31, 2010 The (war) games go on... (photo: AP / Navy Visual News Service, PO 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas)
Defence   Korea   Photos   US   Wikipedia: ROKS Cheonan sinking
President Barack Obama listens while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. Asia Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
A Persian message for Obama
     Jul 31, 2010 A Persian message for Obama... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
Iran   Nuclear   US   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran
This photo released by the Fars News Agency claims to show an Iranian satellite launching rocket named "Safir-2", translated in English as "Ambassador-2", carrying the satellite "Omid", or "Hope" in English, photographed at launch at an undisclosed location on Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the country's president announced Tuesday, claiming a significant step in an ambitious space program that has worried many international obser WorldNews.com Fri 30 Jul 2010
Iran Aims for Space, U.S. Aims for War
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran plans to send a man into space by 2019, it evoked... (photo: AP / Fars News Agency)
Iran   Peace   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Iran – United States relations
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Philip Arnold, squadron leader of the California Army National Guard?s 40th Infantry Division?s Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) Security Forces Platoon, guides vehicles in the Marawara district days after a U.S. offensive against Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Kunar province, Afghanistan, July 1, 2010. The New York Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
Taliban Exploit Openings in Neglected Province
PUL-I-KUMRI, Afghanistan — Almost unnoticed, this strategic northern province is slipping away from government control. Multimedia Slide Show Taliban Make Inroads... (photo: USAF / Senior Airman Nathan Lipscomb)
Afghanistan   Photos   Taliban   War   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Islamist insurgent fighters in a street in Mogadishu, Somalia, during clashes with Somali government soldiers in southern Mogadishu's Wardhigley neighborhood on Thursday, June 24, 2010. Al Jazeera Fri 30 Jul 2010
Al-Shabab threatens AU peacekeepers
The armed group leading the fight against Somalia's beleagured transitional government has warned that it will turn Mogadishu into a "graveyard" for extra African... (photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Africa   Photos   Somalia   War   Wikipedia: Al-Shabaab


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The exterior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, 360 kms southwest of Tehran, is seen on Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. Iran's top leader rejected a long-term suspension of uranium enrichment and threatened Wednesday that Iranian diplomats will withdraw from talks with European negotiators if they insist on such a suspension. Heavy water is used to moderate a nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. US hopes for Iran nuclear talks Al Jazeera
MOSCOW. Dmitry Medvedev voted in the election to the fifth Moscow City Duma. US says old treaty disputes with Russia have no bearing on new nuclear arms treaty Star Tribune
A missile seen backdropped by a poster of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a military exhibition to mark the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday Sept. 23, 2 Q+A - What threat does Iran's nuclear work pose? The Star
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, centre right, listens to his Defense Minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, during army parade ceremony marking National Army Day, in front of mausoleum of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 18, 2010. Conditions still apply for nuclear talks -- Ahmadinejad The Star
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Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Mr. David Cameron Hit for six: Kapil and Pakistan The Telegraph India
A British soldier of International Security Assistance Force patrol as afghan people look on, near the site of a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug 11, 2008. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a dozen, officials said. Clashes and an airstrike in the south killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgen Portrait of an occupied country Al Jazeera
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Karzai doubts allies plan to fight terror Gulf News
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and British Prime Minister David Cameron look at one another before a meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Cameron Defends His Criticism of Pakistan The New York Times
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poor residential area in Pune - India It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites The Guardian
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, talks during an interview at the United Nations Friday, Sept. 16, 200 Mugabe a front for military dictatorship, says PM aide Irish Times
Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron answers a question from a journalist as he gives a speech to journalists and academics at a think tank on Policy Exchange in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. UK 'terror' warning angers Pakistan Al Jazeera
File- Major General (MGEN) James N. Mattis, USMC, Commanding General, 1st Marine Division (MAR DIV), returns a salute from Marines of 1st Battalion (BN) 4th Marines about to be promoted, at Camp Commando, Kuwait while forward deployed in support of Operation enduring Freedom. The 'Real' Rogue Soldiers WorldNews.com
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