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Dubai Duty Free closes in on $1 billion record sales target | Dubai: Dubai Duty Free has announced half-year sales of Dh1.9 billion ($537 million), which represent a 31per cent increase over the same period last year. | Topping the sales category list at Dubai... (photo: GFDL / Coolcaesar.) Gulf News Arab World Business Dubai Photos UAE |
Barack Obama meets with President Karzai, a man he chided for not doing enough for Afghanistan | KABUL, Afghanistan - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a man Obama has chided for not doing enough to rebuild his war-torn country. | Obam... (photo: AP / Presidential Palace) Star Tribune Afghanistan Defence Photos Politics US |
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U.S. is present, but Iran nuclear talks end in stalemate | : International talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions ended in deadlock on Saturday, despite the Bush administration's decision to reverse policy and send a senior American... (photo: UN /Mark Garten) International Herald Tribune Bush Iran Nuclear Photos Talks |
International strikes kill nine Afghan police | File photo shows a US attack aircraft Afghanistan. Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in international military air strikes called in when police and troo... (photo: AP / Fraidoon Pooyaa) Turkish Press Afghanistan Military NATO Photos Taliban |
Arab League chief to Sudan over war crimes call | Amr Mussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, attends a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on July 19. Mussa is to fly to Khartoum with a plan aimed at headi... (photo: AP Photo / Lino Arrigo Azzopardi) Turkish Press Crimes Darfur Egypt Photos Sudan |
Iraq opens airport in holy city of Najaf | The Associated Press | BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister is inaugurating a new airport in the southern city of Najaf. | Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, mostly Iranians... (photo: AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari) Philadelphia Daily News Airport Iran Iraq Photos Tourist |
Obama to Meet in Afghanistan With Karzai | U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had breakfast with U.S. troops in the Afghan capital, Kabul Sunday ahead of an expected meeting with President Hamid... (photo: creative commons) Voa News Afghanistan Democratic Obama Photos Politics |
Olmert vows to recover captured soldier | Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised to obtain a soldier that was captured by Gaza militants over two years ago. | "We've promised the Sh... (photo: AP / Ronen Zvulun, Pool) Gulf News Gaza Hamas Israel Olmert Photos Slideshow |
Ahmadinejad welcomes progress in nuclear talks | Iran's president described talks with world powers on the country's disputed nuclear programme as a step forward, the official IRNA news agency said today. | At yesterd... (photo: AP Photo/Hans Punz) Irish Times Ahmadinejad Iran Negotiations Nuclear Photos |
Pakistan army says 15 militants killed | SADAQAT JAN | The Associated Press | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Security forces killed 15 militants and detained 60 others, the army said Sunday, in the first major action a... (photo: AP Photo / Mohammad Zubair) Philadelphia Daily News Militants Pakistan Photos Politics Press |