IRAQ: Cholera deaths rise to eight as disease spreads web | Photo: IRIN BAGHDAD, 15 October 2008 (IRIN) - About 500 confirmed cholera cases have been registered in Iraq since the latest outbreak of the disease on 20 August. Eight people have died, a gove... (photo: AP / Alaa al-Marjani)IRINnews
Palestinian shot dead in West Bank | Israeli soldiers have shot dead an 18-year-old Palestinian youth close to a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian doctors have said. | Abdelkader Darzeid was killed n... (photo: WN Gaza)Al Jazeera
'New Europe' Struggles To Ride Out Financial Storm Downturn Pinches Ex-communist Eastern Europe Amid Signs It May Ride Out The Financial Storm | , Oct. 15, 2008 E-Mail Story | Print Story | Sphere | Share | Text Size: A A A 1 | 2 | (AP) (AP) Hungary's... (photo: AP Photo / Jock Fistick,Pool)CBS News EuropeFinancialLeadersNewsPhotos
Jerusalem concessions: Trading land for favor | JERUSALEM - Nearly 150 years after Russian Czar Alexander II bought a large plot of land in Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Moscow last week bearing ... (photo: AP Photo / Dan Balilty)Seattle Times ConflictJerusalemLandOlmertPhotos
Rice vows peace for Middle East | WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged yesterday to leave "no stone unturned" in her quest for a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal by January 20 when P... (photo: Juan Manuel Herrera- OAS/OEA)Gulf Daily News IsraelPalestinePeacePhotosPolitics
Watch panel on excavations soon Contractors to face prompt action for incomplete jobs | Alexander M Arrackal | Staff Reporter | A new committee, to be formed soon, will visit all areas of Muharraq and o... (photo: creative commons)Bahrain Tribune BahrainElectricityInformationPhotosWater
Minorities figure in BHRWS new board Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) elected its new board. The elected included members of the Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Baha'i communities. | The eight-elected... (photo: AP Photo)Bahrain Tribune BahrainElectionHumanPhotosRights
First in Kingdom Aids counselling centre to be inaugurated on Dec. 1 | Sandeep Singh Grewal | Staff Reporter | Bahrain's first of its kind voluntary testing and counselling centre for Ai... (photo: PD)Bahrain Tribune AidsBahrainHealthPhotosUN
Arms smuggling worries Sudan | The Sudanese Government is in a state of shock following the accidental discovery of two consignments of arms that were allegedly on its way to the southern army. | The... (photo: USAID file)Gulf News DiscoveryKhartoumPhotosSudanUN
