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Suspected members of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, are detained by the military, in Bukavu Barracks in Kano state, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
Inmates   Islamic   Military   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Boko Haram   		 San Francisco Chronicle 
Nigeria: Islamic extremist inmates to be released
Tue 21 May 2013
ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military said Tuesday that the West African nation would release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic extremists — including al... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
Aid   Humanitarian   Photos   Wikipedia: World Food Programme   World   		 Huffington Post 
Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
Tue 21 May 2013
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." | Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika addresses supporters at a rally in the capital, Algiers, Thursday Feb. 12, 2009. Bouteflika said he will run for a third term in April elections. Bouteflika had been widely expected to run again despite persistent concerns about his health in recent years.  Baltimore Sun  Tue 21 May 2013
Algeria's Bouteflika convalescing in France
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ordered by his doctor... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika   Algeria   France   Photos   Wikipedia: Abdelaziz Bouteflika  
In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, holds hands with chief of staff Esfandiari Rahim Mashaei, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran.  Reuters  Tue 21 May 2013
Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad ally barred from Iran election
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election, along with a protégé of the current pres... (photo: AP / Mohammad Hassanzadeh)
Ali Akbar Rafsanjani   Elections   Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei   Iran   Photos   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013  
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Head of the Iran's Experts Assembly Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his speech, during a meeting of the assembly, a powerful clerical panel charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Al Jazeera Tue 21 May 2013
Two key candidates barred from Iran election
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential e... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Election   Iran   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013  
Bahrain Fort Gadling Tue 21 May 2013
Could Bahrain Become The Next Big Heritage Tourism Destination?
Desert Island Boy, flickr The tiny Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain is home to one of the most mysterious ancient civilizations of the Middle East. | Archaeologists ... (photo: Creative Commons / Peter)
Bahrain   Desert   Heritage   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Bahrain  
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. The Guardian Tue 21 May 2013
Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war
Ability of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain crisis may hinge on events beyond his control | Sectarian struggle ... an Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bo... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Iraq   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
File - An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. San Francisco Chronicle Tue 21 May 2013
Syria, Israel exchange fire over border
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military sai... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
Israel   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
Mourners pray over the two bodies killed in a car bomb attack before their burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. The Star Tue 21 May 2013
Bombings in Iraq kill at least 12
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites, sto... (photo: AP / Alaa al-Marjani)
Bombing   Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Bomb  
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center. Al Jazeera Tue 21 May 2013
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
A military physician who oversees a team of nurses force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has dismissed ethical concerns raised ... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Elisha Dawkins)
Guantanamo   Health   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  


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Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails Huffington Post
People gather around a destroyed shop at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people and prompting scuffles between police and Iraqis angry about security failures. Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq my SA
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika addresses supporters at a rally in the capital, Algiers, Thursday Feb. 12, 2009. Bouteflika said he will run for a third term in April elections. Bouteflika had been widely expected to run again despite persistent concerns about his health in recent years. Algeria's Bouteflika convalescing in France Baltimore Sun
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Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war The Guardian
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq Iraq PM to alter security strategy as violence rages Khaleej Times
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