UPS Cargo Plane Crashes Near Dubai Airport The New York Times | Filed at 7:38 a.m. ET | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. | The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the ''bodies of two pilots'' had...
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The legacy of seven years in Iraq Irish Times | Has anything good come out of the occupation of Iraq? In the week that President Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission there, commentators are starting to count the final cost of George Bush's nation-building project, writes LARA MARLOW , Washington Corresponent | THE BUSH ADMINI...
Iraq’s oil future may be vulnerable after US exit The Jordan Times | By Rania El Gamal | BAGHDAD - After an explosive device tore through the back of an armoured SUV carrying Chinese oil workers in Iraq in mid-July, security contractors said the US military, not China's Daqing Petroleum, was the likely target. | The...
Freedom's Just Another Word The New York Times | AMONG the few scraps of news to emerge from Barack Obama’s vacation was the anecdote of a Martha’s Vineyard bookseller handing him an advance copy of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Freedom.” The book has since rocketed...
Bailout in the Works for Afghan Bank Hit by Panic The New York Times | KABUL, Afghanistan — In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan and United States governments hammered together a deal to bail out Afghanistan’s largest bank on Saturday after lines of frantic depositor...
2 Bombings Kill 10 People in Afghanistan The New York Times | KABUL, Afghanistan — Ten Afghans, including four policemen, were killed Saturday in two separate bombings, in the cities of Kunduz and Kandahar, NATO and local government officials said. | A Taliban commander who claimed responsibility for th...
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Slashing suspect traveled with Marines for weeks Newsday | August 27, 2010 PAULINE JELINEK (Associated Press Writer) | (AP) — The college student accused of slashing a New York cab driver showed no signs he might have trouble cop...
Slashing suspect traveled with Marines for 5 days Kansas City Star More News | The U.S. military says there was no sign the suspect in the slashing of a New York cab driver might not be able to cope with the experience of living with troops fighti...
Iran has enough material for 1-2 atom bombs - ex-IAEA aide Daily Star Lebanon | Compiled by Daily Star staff | Friday, August 27, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for one or two nuclear arms but it would not make se...
Egypt Opposition Leader Claims Official Harassment The New York Times | Filed at 9:41 a.m. ET | CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's most prominent democracy advocate accused President Hosni Mubarak's government Saturday of posting Facebook photos of his daughter in swimsuits and at events where alcohol was served in an attempt to di...
UPS Cargo Plane Crashes Near Dubai Airport The New York Times | Filed at 7:38 a.m. ET | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. | The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authori...
Pessimism Permeates Mideast Media on Talks The New York Times | JERUSALEM — Palestinian and Israeli commentators were mostly pessimistic on Friday in assessing this week’s meeting of their leaders in Washington. Many described it as political theater — dark suits, cordial handshakes and lofty ...
US Senator seeks Lockerbie 'whistleblowers' Breitbart | US senator Robert Menendez, seen here August 3 in Washington, DC, who is in... | A US senator investigating the Lockerbie bomber's release called Monday for "whistleblowers" with behind-the-scenes knowledge of the controversy to share their secrets with his probe. | "All correspondence will remain confidential and identities will not be disclosed...
