JEDDAH: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference on Thursday appealed to Muslims everywhere to direct their zakat tithes to relief for flood-wracked Pakistan.
KITTY HAWK: Hurricane Earl bore down on a vast stretch of the US East Coast on Thursday, as tens of thousands of people fled North Carolina’s barrier islands to avoid dangerous winds and surf.
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NEW ORLEANS: A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP’s massive spill....
WASHINGTON: Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct talks in 20 months Thursday, starting the clock on a daunting one-year deadline to flesh out a Palestinian state to live in peace with Israel....
KABUL: Larger than usual crowds gathered to withdraw funds from Afghanistan’s largest bank Thursday, but there was little sign that questions surrounding its viability had sparked a major panic.
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CAIRO: Activists on Thursday hung posters across Cairo supporting Egypt’s intelligence chief as a candidate in next year’s presidential elections, the latest campaign to try to undermine a possible father-son succession in the Arab world’s most populous nation.
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WASHINGTON , Israeli and Palestinian leaders began direct peace negotiations on Thursday, sitting down for US-brokered talks even as hard-liners on both sides vowed never to accept a deal.
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BERLIN , German General Egon Ramms, chief of operations of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, criticised Thursday Afghan President Hamid Karzai for failing to support NATO forces in the war against the Taliban....
KABUL , Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO airstrike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement.
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GENEVA , About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming....
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