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Model of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.The Busher Nuclear Power Plant (Persian: نیروگاه اتمی بوشهر) is a nuclear power plant in Iran 17 kilometers (11 mi) southeast of the city of Bushehr, between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf.
Iran   Nuclear   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran		  The Los Angeles Times 
Iran nuclear claim met by skepticism
Thu 16 Feb 2012
Reporting from Beirut and Tehran— Iran on Wednesday heralded what it called a pair of significant advances in its controversial nuclear research efforts, but Western observers generally... (photo: Creative Commons / Bernd.Brincken)
Souvenir plates with portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad are seen displayed at a shop window for sale, in the old city of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday Sept. 3, 2011.
Photos   Politics   Referendum   Syria   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising (from January 2012)		  North Jersey 
Syria to hold referendum on new draft constitution
Wed 15 Feb 2012
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered a referendum for later this month on a new constitution that would allow political parties other than his ruling Baath Party, the centerpiece of... (photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman)
n this image from television Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, empty streets with debris are shown of what SANA describes as the Syrian army restoring "security and stability" to the central city of Hama, Syria.  The Star  Wed 15 Feb 2012
Syrian forces attack Hama, Homs despite pressure to stop
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian government forces launched an offensive on the city of Hama early on Wednesday, firing on residential neighbourhoods from armoured vehicles and mobile anti-aircraft guns,... (photo: AP / SANA)
Hama   Homs   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Hama
Syrian regime supporters flash the V-victory sign as they hold up a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria. Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011.  Jakarta Globe  Tue 14 Feb 2012
Syrian Forces Start New Attacks On Opposition
Amman/Beirut. Syrian government forces attacked opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on several fronts on Tuesday, sending residents fleeing from one town near the capital and bombarding Homs for an... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
Photos   Politics   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: February 2012 bombardment of Homs
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In this image from amateur video a youth is claimed to lie bleeding in a square in Homs, Syria Monday Aug 22 2011 after shots were fired at protesters against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Jakarta Globe Tue 14 Feb 2012
Activists: Syrian Rebels Repel Attack on Key Town
Beirut. Syrian rebels have repelled a push by government tanks into a central town held by forces fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime in an 11-month conflict that... (photo: AP)
Activists   Photos   Rebels   Syria   Wikipedia: February 2012 bombardment of Homs
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2010 file picture U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay gestures during a press conference at the United Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Khaleej Times Tue 14 Feb 2012
Fresh violence in Syria as UN warns of civil war
BEIRUT ' Syrian government forces renewed their assault on the rebellious city of Homs on Tuesday in what activists described as the heaviest shelling in days, as the UN... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus,File)
Beirut   Civil   Photos   Syria   Violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks during a session of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Bloomberg Tue 14 Feb 2012
Netanyahu Blames Iran-Backed Terrorism for India, Georgia Car-Bomb Attacks
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to “act methodically” against Iran-backed terrorism, which he blamed for car-bomb attacks on diplomatic targets... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill)
Georgia   India   Iran   Photos   Wikipedia: Benjamin Netanyahu
Amr Moussa Secretary-General of the League, during honoring the end of his term General of the League of Arab States at Headquarters League, in the city of Cairo in Egypt. Jakarta Globe Sun 12 Feb 2012
Arab ministers to meet over escalating Syria crisis
Arab League foreign ministers will meet on Sunday in Cairo to discuss their next move over the Syrian crisis with the bloodshed showing no signs of abating, even spilling... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Protest   Cairo   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Arab League
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, taken on Friday, May 6, 2011, Syrian anti-government protesters carry a banner that reads in Arabic:"we're not going to shut up on the blood of our martyrs civilians and soldiers and our blood is not more precious than the blood of our brothers, Homs Youth," and " free people of the Syrian army, we are your brothers, fathers and children," during a rally in the central city of Homs, Syria. Ha'aretz Sun 12 Feb 2012
Russia set to block Arab plan on Syria
Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs on Saturday in a campaign to crush a revolt against President Bashar Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Arab... (photo: AP)
Arab   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
In this picture taken on Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012, Syrian citizens look to a damaged armored personnel carrier belonging to Syrian police riots forces which was destroyed by the Syrian rebels during clashes Bayada neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria. Khaleej Times Sun 12 Feb 2012
Syria uprising intensifies, spills into Lebanon
DAMASCUS ' Syrian armour moved against protest flashpoints and a general was gunned down in Damascus on Saturday as the bloodshed showed no signs of abating, even... (photo: AP)
Lebanon   Photos   Protest   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Syrian uprising


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U.S. Army 1st Lt. George Rousson, right, calls his soldiers back to their vehicles after combat engineers investigated and cleared an area of interest during a mission in eastern, Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2012. Bleak Report on the Afghan War Middle East Online
File - Street Children on the roadside footpath in Kolkata in Eastern India City. Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year, says survey by Save the Children The Guardian
File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanks the soldiers of the 101st Aviation Division and their families during a speech at Fort Campbell Afghan leader to push for access to Taliban in Pakistan Daily Press
Tibetan monks and lays carrying a huge banner calling "Please Invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet", hundreds of Tibetans gathering at Yushul county, eastern Tibet recently. Teenage Monk Self-Immolates As Flames of Tibet Continue WorldNews.com
Terrorism
A Lebanese Swedish woman cries as she is being evacuated from Lebanon with her family, on buses organized by the Swedish embassy, from a road intersection , leading out of the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. About 850 Swedes among about 5,000 in Lebanon have been evacuated, most to Aleppo in northern Syria. Westerners fled by land, sea and air as Israel launched waves of bombings that hit south Beirut, the border and the eastern city of Baalbek in the early hours Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Syrians trade blame over Aleppo bombings Al Jazeera
File - Panmujom, North Korea (July 17, 2008) - Peering out from behind a granite pillar in North Korea, a Democratic People's Republic of Korea guard studies the movements of Sailors from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group during a tour of the DMZ. Bush's 'evil' trio holds sway over US decade later Atlanta Journal
Secretary general Ban Ki-moon has a Helicopter overflight of the flood-affected areas of Bangkok Overflight of flood-affected areas of Bangkok The helicopter will take off and land at the same Thai army base (located 10 minutes from ESCAP), at 2nd Army Cavalry Division, Sanam Pao. The flight itself is expected to last for 30 min and will give the Secretary-General a bird-eye view of flooded areas in Bangkok, in particular the western part of the city, the Thonburi area, which has experienced the worst flood situation. Travel advice unchanged despite terror warning for Bangkok Sydney Morning Herald
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with he Secretary-General with H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran UN chief condemns assasination of Iranian scientist Irna
Human Rights
Bollywood Actor Shah Rukh Khan - India- Film SRK: No SEX scenes for my kids The Siasat Daily
In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 file photo, Shin Gambira, a prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar, attends a ceremony of "Pray for Peace and Religious Unity" at a church in Yangon, Myanmar. Burmese protest leader monk Shin Gambira freed BBC News
Belgium's chief government negotiator Elio Di Rupo speaks during a media conference at the Belgian Federal Parliament in Brussels on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Belgium Urged To Keep Human Rights Central In Foreign Policy WorldNews.com
A Syrian rebel peers through the scope on his weapon in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Syria's Homs under relentless onslaught Middle East Online
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