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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Israel Herald.com http://www.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/940f2bfd509e743b/ en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:23 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:23 -0400 30 Authorities here are in touch with the relatives of 11 expatriate workers, including 10 Indians, who were killed in a fire at a bachelor accommodation here Tuesday and the process is on to identify the bodies through DNA tests. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400129/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:28 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400129/cs/1/ Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have fixed a five-hour work schedule in various government offices during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400106/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:01:03 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400106/cs/1/ Germany's national railway company Deutsche Bahn will help the Gulf nation of Qatar in integrating its various proposed railway networks into a comprehensive and consolidated railway system. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400068/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:16 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400068/cs/1/ Bahrain has launched a new women empowerment project designed to raise the status of women in that Gulf nation. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400062/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:05 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400062/cs/1/ Bahraini authorities have issued a new order specifying the working hours at government offices and other establishments during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400013/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:01:58 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400013/cs/1/ Member of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Supreme Council and ruler of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Saqr Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi has ordered the release of 60 prisoners lodged in various jails in the emirate. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400009/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:01:48 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400009/cs/1/ Five prisoners, including a woman, convicted in a case of murder, were hanged here, the official newspaper Iran reported Thursday. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400003/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:01:16 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400003/cs/1/ Kuwait-based investment company Global Investment House (GIH) has launched a new hedge fund aimed solely at the Indian market. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399926/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:55 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399926/cs/1/ Yemeni authorities have arrested 30 suspected members of the Al Qaeda terrorist network believed to have been plotting attacks in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, official sources said Thursday. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399880/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:30 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399880/cs/1/ Bahrain's banking sector continued to show dynamic and confident growth in the first half of 2008, according to that Gulf nation's leading economic authority. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399853/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:00:15 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399853/cs/1/ London, Aug 28 : A Palestinian couple locked their disabled kids in two urine-stained rooms for forty years because they were afraid the children would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child, police has revealed. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400074/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:30 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400074/cs/1/ London, Aug.28 : A man who posed as a James Bond movie maker and acted as a front for running Britain's biggest underworld armoury, supplied a machine gun linked to the murder of Police Constable Sharon Beshenivsky. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399964/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:10 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/399964/cs/1/ Bangalore, Aug 28 (ANI/Business Wire India): Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services announced that it has won the prestigious Intel Global Innovation Award for Storage at the Intel Developer Forum 2008 in San Francisco. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400041/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:11 -0400 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/400041/cs/1/ In the race among global oil majors to re-enter Iraq, China scored the first win. While Western oil firms have been trying to access the world's third-largest oil reserves since the 2003 U.S. invasio... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299138/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:43:39 -0400 Forbes http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299138/ It is his unit's lone computer, highlighting the country's vulnerability to a community of Iraqi hackers defacing websites and attempting to hack into sensitive internal networks. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299567/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:34:07 -0400 USA Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299567/ As of Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, at least 4,150 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299547/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:11:12 -0400 The News Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299547/ US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama could open talks with Iran on its nuclear programme early next year if he wins the White House, one of his senior foreign policy advisers has ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299704/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:10:59 -0400 Stuff http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299704/ ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- An Iranian trade delegation announced an agreement Thursday for Iran to share peaceful nuclear technology with Nigeria, to help Africa's biggest oil producer bolster its woeful ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299625/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:23:36 -0400 Associated Press http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299625/ Western nations will have to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions without Russia's help if they refuse to co-operate with Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299691/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:11:01 -0400 Stuff http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299691/ Denver, Colorado - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is vowing to end US dependence on Middle East oil within 10 years if elected president, according to excerpts released ahead of his spee... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299536/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:42:07 -0400 Earth Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299536/ France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) welcomes Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the Grand Palais in Paris in July 2008. The United States refuses to follow France's lead and will not talk to Syri... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299695/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:03:55 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299695/ US troops will on September 1 hand over control of Iraq's Anbar province, once the heart of a bloody Sunni Arab insurgency, reflecting a dramatic drop in violence across the country, an Iraqi offic... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299535/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:38:00 -0400 One News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299535/ Armed members of the group known as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the creeks of the Niger Delta. An Israeli religious media outlet on Thursday said it has retracted it... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299134/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:03:55 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299134/ Venture capital fund Hasso Plattner Ventures is investing $4 million in Israeli startup InnovaShare, along with the fund Israeli Cedar. This is the German fund's first Israeli investment, even though ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299703/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:44:59 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299703/ UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- In a move to maintain a cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, the United Nations announced a one-year extension of the U.N. mandate in the region. In a unanimous de... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299707/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:03:58 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17299707/ MOGADISHU: Somali pirates freed an Omani fishing vessel with its six crew members after more than seven months in captivity, officials in the country's semi-autonomous Puntland region said Thursday. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294712/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:11 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294712/ WASHINGTON: A Nepalese man and relatives of 12 of his slain comrades filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against the construction and services giant KBR on charges of human trafficking, for all... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295067/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:05 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295067/ Jewish Federation of Louisville and Iranians for Peace to present “The International Forum on Iran.” The program will be held Sunday, Oct. 12, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., at http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294044/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:40:47 -0400 Business First http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294044/ ANKARA: Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said Thursday he was hopeful UN-brokered peace talks due to begin in September would end the 34-year-old division of Cyprus. "I am optimistic for the re... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295190/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:22 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295190/ CAIRO: A US probe into the shooting of an Egyptian man by a US Navy chartered boat near the Suez Canal in March said Thursday that the ship's arrival at the wrong time was a "significant factor" in th... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294711/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:14 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294711/ TRIPOLI: Libya on Thursday announced an amnesty for more than 3,000 prisoners, including Europeans and Africans, to mark the 39th anniversary of Moammar Gadhafi's rule. The Justice Ministry said the d... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295151/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:26 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295151/ The Singapore Tourism Board expects the Formula One race to generate Dh12.9 million in additional tourism receipts from Middle East visitors. Organisers said 40,000 of each day’s 100,000 tickets... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295043/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:18:50 -0400 Gulf News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295043/ NAJAF, Iraq: Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday ordered a halt to armed operations by his 60,000-strong Mehdi Army militia, and ordered his followers to protest peacefully against the US occupa... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295187/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:28 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295187/ Posted: 3:05 PM- A South Jordan man has been accused of smuggling guns to Guatemala - including one that allegedly was used in a shooting in the Central American country. A federal grand jury in Sal... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295244/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:35:55 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295244/ KUWAIT: The first ever Arab economic summit, to be hosted by Kuwait in January, will focus on worsening poverty and unemployment in the Arab world, and boosting inter-Arab trade, a minister said Thurs... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295197/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:09 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295197/ RIYADH: A court in conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia has ruled against a man who had disowned his daughter for 50 years after accepting the results of a DNA paternity test, a report said on Thursday. T... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295188/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:27 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295188/ The area near Iraq's border with Iran is known to be less than stable, and now it seems Mother Nature has joined smugglers and suspected militiamen in stirring up the pot there. Early today, an earthq... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295072/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:24:48 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295072/ By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2008 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff addressed the security situation in Iraq, the need for more U.S. troops in Afgha... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295044/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:05 -0400 Defense Link http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295044/ news archive ] and six other officials with the 1978 disappearance of a prominent Lebanese cleric and issued warrants for their arrests. In Beirut, investigating magistrate Samih al-Haj charged Gaddaf... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295299/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:23:23 -0400 Jurist http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295299/ WASHINGTON: A top US military officer has said that the al-Qaida militants in Iraq are moving to safe haven in tribal areas of Pakistan, posing threat not only to coalition forces in Afghanistan but... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295042/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:38:35 -0400 Times of India http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295042/ KABUL: Thousands of jubilant Afghans packed the national stadium to give the country's first Olympic-medal winner Rohullah Nikpai a hero's welcome on Thursday. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295195/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:07 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295195/ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has established a lead of more than 20 points over her closest rival ahead of next month's Kadima party leadership election to replace Prime Mi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295191/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:20 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295191/ RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images There have been Jews in India for centuries, and Indians in Israel for decades. But it wasn't until 1992 that the two countries established diplomatic relations. Now, as... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295293/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:56 -0400 Business Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295293/ WASHINGTON: Iran could emerge as a big winner, at least in the short term, from the rapidly escalating tensions between the US and Russia over Moscow's intervention in Georgia, according to analysts h... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295192/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:18 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295192/ DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a scathing attack on NATO Thursday, saying the Western alliance was failing to bring security to Afghanistan and fanning tension with... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295193/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:17 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295193/ Those who think that Lebanon is a state of little consequence in the region ought to consider the words of wisdom offered to the Lebanese by a visiting Egyptian diplomat this week. Asked whether his c... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295301/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:44:58 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295301/ ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers protested on Thursday to demand the reinstatement of judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf, an issue at the heart of political instability in the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294539/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:16 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294539/ MADRID: The United Nations has not renewed the mandate of its mediator on the Western Sahara dispute, Peter van Walsum, the Dutch diplomat announced in an article in a Spanish newspaper Thursday. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295066/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:09 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295066/ TEHRAN: Iran is to lop several zeros off its currency as it battles double-digit inflation, central bank vice president Hossein Ghazavi said in comments published on Thursday. "A special committee has... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294341/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:08 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294341/ CAIRO: Twenty-one members of Egypt's main opposition Muslim Brotherhood were arrested on Thursday in the Nile Delta for holding an illegal meeting at a former MP's home, a security official said. "The... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295189/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:24 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295189/ DENVER, Colorado: Barack Obama was Thursday to summon America to join his crusade for change, as the Democratic convention climaxes in a historic echo of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295185/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:30 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295185/ AMOSCOW: Russian Premier Vladimir Putin accused the US Thursday of spurring the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal to protest Moscow's acti... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295186/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:31 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295186/ VALLETTA: Seventy would-be illegal African immigrants to Europe perished when their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea, according to eight companions rescued Wednesday off Malta, officials said. If th... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295152/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:21 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295152/ KUWAIT: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member Kuwait has earned 6.7 billion dinars ($25 billion) in the first three months of the current fiscal year, over half the projected ann... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295297/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:06 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295297/ In a landmark trial, a US federal jury has cleared a former marine sergeant of the deaths of Iraqi detainees. The trial of Jose Luis Nazario is the first time a civilian jury has decided on the alleg... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295164/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:38 -0400 BBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295164/ GAZA CITY: Pro-Palestinian activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in symbolic defiance of an Israeli blockade headed back to Cyprus on Thursday with seven residents of the besieged territory on board ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295196/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:03 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295196/ Scottish police had information that might have changed the outcome of the Lockerbie bombing trial, a BBC TV programme has learned. The information could have affected the credibility of key eviden... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295165/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:36 -0400 BBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295165/ DUBAI - Emirates Leasing, a new wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai Islamic Bank, is set to provide the region with a one-of-a-kind mobility solution, offering Shariah compliant full-service vehicle leas... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294644/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:36 -0400 Business Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294644/ Dubai: The Emirates Pakistan team clinched top honours at the annual Independence Day hockey tournament last week. The tournament, played on a league basis, saw four teams in the race for the title. T... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295298/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:18:42 -0400 Gulf News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295298/ (ANHRI/IFEX) - The Egyptian authorities recently ordered the cancellation, without justification, of the videotaping of two programmes for an American satellite television channel, Al-Hura, just hours... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294307/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:48:09 -0400 IFEX http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17294307/ Bassam al-Massalmeh, a 39-year-old mentally disabled Palestinian, stands behind an iron door of a basement room where he and his sister Nawal were kept by their father in the village of Beit Awwa, nea... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295300/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:06:37 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295300/ Washington: The top US Marine officer said on Wednesday he could reduce his 25,000-strong force in the former Al Qaida stronghold of Iraq's Anbar province to reinforce military operations against a gr... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295045/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:19:07 -0400 Gulf News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295045/ Vandals broke into Lebanon High School early this morning and stole computers, televisions and other pieces of technology equipment.School employees discovered the break-in this morning, according to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295295/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:37:40 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295295/ Noflea Shker, a Druse resident of the Golan Heights, was nearly at a loss for words Thursday. She was about to cross the border into Syria, where she would see aunts and uncles for the first time in 2... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295296/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:20 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295296/ BEIRUT (AFP) - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon should not be permanently resettled in the country, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday after talks in Beirut with Lebanese President Mi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295302/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:14 -0400 The Jordan Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17295302/ About 400 Druze clergymen living in the Golan Heights crossed into Syria on Thursday for an annual pilgrimage.The clerics, in traditional uniforms of white turbans, black robes and bushy mustaches, wa... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17289788/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:58:07 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17289788/ Shanghai, China (AP) - China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at the Iraq's Oil Min... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290707/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:48:34 -0400 CNS News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290707/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks, during a press conference after meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman at the Presidential Palace in suburban Baabda, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290956/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:22:16 -0400 The News Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290956/ (RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for the case to be dropped against journalist Yosef Azizi Banitruf, sentenced to five years in jail after he exposed excessive use of force against de... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290836/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:52:46 -0400 IFEX http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290836/ RIYADH - Authorities in Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, have released a leading reform activist after he served a six-month prison sentence, acquaintances said on Thursday. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290832/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:22 -0400 Khaleej Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290832/ (AFP)--The U.S. military will next week hand over to Iraqi forces security control of Anbar, a Sunni Arab province where some of the war's bloodiest battles have been fought, the provincial police c... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290702/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:00:12 -0400 Morning Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290702/ Former Beatle Paul McCartney, seen here in February, is to stage his first ever concert in Israel next month, four decades after the Beatles were barred from playing there, he said on his website. (AF... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290403/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:14:15 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290403/ Every morning, 300 children – mostly boys, ages 7 to 15 – gathered at the Great Mosque in Sanaa to memorize the Koran during the summer months. For centuries, different sects have run private rel... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290951/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:06:18 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290951/ Iraq's northern Kurdish enclave may be a haven of relative peace and serenity but independent journalists there say challenges to the political establishment are being met with intimidation and threat... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290227/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:23 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290227/ Small and medium-sized companies are entering Iran’s market to replace big companies that have scaled down their operation to avoid sanctions, western diplomats say.Partly as a result of this switch... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17289891/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:59:42 -0400 Financial Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17289891/ Exporting tiny houses When the U.S. real estate market began cratering, scale-replica maker Real Model shifted its focus to a new and booming market: Dubai. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290426/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:39:16 -0400 CNN Money http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290426/ NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Saudi Arabia's recent decision to allow foreign investors to buy local shares indirectly is a dramatic step toward opening up the biggest stock market in the Middle East. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290834/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:32:08 -0400 Market Watch http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290834/ EU backs Iran offer with new sanction threat By James Blitz and Alex Barker in London Published: June 17 2008 03:00 | Last updated: June 17 2008 03:00 http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290949/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:59:40 -0400 Financial Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290949/ Iran plans to involve China and India in extracting oil from the Caspian Sea. The move may be an attempt to put pressure on the United States and European Union, experts say. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290837/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:47 -0400 Russian Information Agency http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17290837/ TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- The pullback in Israeli stocks carried into a third session Thursday as Bank Hapoalim reported second-quarter earnings that came in below analysts' expectations, and as Aladd... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17284895/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:33:04 -0400 Market Watch http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17284895/ Macca will perform at a Friendship First concert in Tel Aviv on September 25 as part of a series of one-off gigs in places he has never visited before. In a statement on his http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286133/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:38:17 -0400 Sky News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286133/ By KATARINA KRATOVACASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER CAIRO, Egypt -- The start of the holy month of Ramadan next week is causing clock confusion in the Middle East. Egypt and the Palestinians are falling ba... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285274/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:43:07 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285274/ NAJAF, Iraq — The city’s first airport is weeks away from opening, but already a bigger one is talked about. Land prices are soaring. Merchants say they don’t remember business ever being so goo... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285866/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:02:37 -0400 The Register-Guard http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285866/ Sources close to likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain have told U.S. news agencies the Arizona senator has settled on a vice-presidential running mate.McCain will formally introduce his ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286132/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:09:41 -0400 VOA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286132/ Iran, the world’s most prolific executioner after China, has hanged a woman and four men for murder in defiance of mounting criticism from human rights groups. One of those executed in Tehr... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285930/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:07:53 -0400 Times Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285930/ “The delivery of our second A380 aircraft will be pushed back by a few weeks. Discussions are underway with Airbus regarding the delivery date,” a spokesperson for the airline told http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286131/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:46:07 -0400 Arabian Business http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286131/ George W. Bush has said numerous times: "All option remain on the table." Meaning, military intervention remains a possibility.As the U.S. presidential elections heads into the final stretch, rarely h... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286129/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:14:19 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286129/ Hamas sources tell the Middle East Times the Islamist movement has taken a political decision to stop fighting Israel until the Israelis sort out their political crisis. The next step will entail a po... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286128/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:14:19 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286128/ Kuwaiti women shop for fruit and vegetables in a supermarket in Kuwait City. OPEC member Kuwait has earned 6.7 billion dinars (25 billion dollars) in the first three months of the current fiscal year,... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286130/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:14:22 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17286130/ HONG KONG, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Bank of China, one of China's big four banks, said Thursday that accusations its U.S. branch transferred funds to terrorists in the Middle East are unsubstan... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285014/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:03:50 -0400 Breitbart http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285014/ Egypt is to partially open its borders with Gaza for two days to allow stranded and humanitarian cases to cross, Hamas sources in Gaza said on Thursday. The crossing will be open on Saturday and Sunda... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285981/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:56:33 -0400 People's Daily http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/940f2bfd509e743b/id/17285981/