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Bush, Karzai break on Iran

CAMP DAVID — Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. President George W Bush agreed that Pakistan must help quell deadly violence inside Afghanistan, but broke sharply on Iran’s influence there.

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In Kuwait, Public Protest Against Law Banning Women From Working Nights

The Kuwaiti parliament recently passed a law banning women from working between eight PM and seven AM except in the medical sector. The law further bans women from engaging in work in which they would use their femininity in a way that is “counter to general moral values,” or from …

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Abbas is optimistic after Olmert talks

President Mahmoud Abbas promised Palestinians on Tuesday their lives would improve as a result of his talks this week with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. “Many issues which affect the Palestinians in their day-to- day lives will be resolved,” Abbas told Voice of Palestine radio in his first public comments …

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