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Reality Check: The Hajj

It's the greatest yearly pilgrimage on Earth. BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 20, 2009 This month, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the globe are converging upon the Saudi Arabian holy cities of Mecca and...

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Piaget Building Could Go to Auction

Real Estate in Recovery: What Can Be Done to Prepare for a Turnaround Presented By: Schulte Roth & Zabel and GlobeSt.com The troubled real estate market has created a buyers’ market for mortgage loan portfolios, RMBS and CMBS,...

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Can Iran nuclear power deal be reached?

UN Security Council permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany have said they are disappointed with Iran's apparent rejection of a deal over its nuclear programme. Can a solution be found?...

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UN condemns Iran on human rights

A key UN committee has voted to approve a non-binding resolution condemning Iran for its crackdown on protesters following June's disputed elections. The resolution also repeated annual criticism of Iran's human rights record,...

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Hunting for peace in the Middle East

Turkey’s performance in the last seven years of its foreign policy has been a success story. Not stopping at addressing problematic relations with its immediate neighbors, the country has transferred its vision of regional...

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Barack Obama's Chump Diplomacy

Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama -- loves to stiff him, play him along, and manipulate him. He's the world's celebrity ingenue, the slender naïf perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders.

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Iran looking for missing oil revenue

TEHRAN, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The missing $1 billion from the oil coffers in the Iranian treasury must be investigated, said the head of the Iranian energy committee. A state audit from earlier this year found the Iranian Oil...

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Iran irked still over Jundallah attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The government of Pakistan is expected to hand the alleged perpetrators of an October bombing in southern Iran over to Tehran, Iranian leaders said. Pakistani ties with Iran soured in the...

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First thoughts: More Sat. Night Fever

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** More Saturday Night Fever: The Senate is expected to take its vote to proceed on Senate Majority Leader Reid’s bill on Saturday. Democrats will need 60 votes...

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Leading U.N. Critic Sees Political Agenda Behind U.N.’s Decision to Bar Her

After being denied access to United Nations headquarters for two weeks, one of U.N.'s most forthright critics will find out Friday if her confiscated entry pass will be returned to her – and under what conditions.

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