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Topic: Middle East (page 37)

Palestinians pass by unfinished buildings at the UNRWA housing project in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Israel's military began transporting 40,000 tons of construction materials into the Gaza Strip at the Sufa Crossing on Wednesday, in a new move to ease its blockade of the coastal territory. The week-long operation will supply badly needed gravel for U.N. schools and other humanitarian projects, including homes in Khan Younis. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba) (AP)

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An anti-government protestor sitting on a traffic sign reacts as the bodies of demonstrators who were killed on Friday's clashes with Yemeni security forces, arrive during their funeral procession in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday, March 20, 2011. The Yemeni president's own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled U.S.-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

Anti-government protestors gather by the bodies of the demonstrators who were killed on Friday's clashes with Yemeni security forces, during their funeral procession in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday, March 20, 2011. The Yemeni president's own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled U.S.-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Egyptian Muslim brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, casts his vote in polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 19, 2011. The referendum on constitutional amendments gives Egypt's 40 million voters their first taste of a free vote in decades, but also poses the first major challenge to the country's transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian rule. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (AP)

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This Saturday, March 19, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) as it launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn from the Mediterranean Sea . The U.S. fired more than 100 cruise missiles from the sea while French fighter jets targeted Moammar Gadhafi's forces from the air on Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Fireman Roderick Eubanks) (AP)

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President Barack Obama makes a statement on Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

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An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Men, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, carry their belongings as they walk during a sand storm in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Associated Press)

Maggie Michael, Khaled Kazziha

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Shiite Bahraini youths burn tires Wednesday, March 16, 2011, near a shopping mall in Malkiya, Bahrain as they awaited government forces they anticipated would roll into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama. They said they tried to get to Manama to join anti-government protesters under attack there but found all ways in to the capital closed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain's crackdown on protesters kills 5

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa

Thousands of anti-government protesters march Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to the Saudi embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency Tuesday to quell a Shiite uprising, as clashes spread through the capital and surrounding villages in a showdown that drew in the region's major powers and splintered along its main sectarian faultlines. At least two Bahrainis and a Saudi soldier died, and hundreds of protesters were injured by shotgun blasts and clubs. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as he arrives for a meeting at Al-Zahar Palace in Manama Saturday, March 12, 2011. Gates is meeting in Bahrain with the kingdom's top rulers, who are facing growing demands for more political freedom. (AP Photo/ Mandal Ngan, pool) (AP)

Bahraini anti-government protesters react Monday, March 14, 2011, at Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain, when Shiite opposition leader Sheik Habib al-Muqdad (unseen) advised them Saudi forces were believed to be coming to the roundabout and that there were buses waiting to take them home. The women, many with masks ready for tear gas, refused to go. A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain to prop up the monarchy against widening demonstrations that have sent waves of fear through Gulf states over the potential for enemy Iran to take a new foothold on their doorsteps. The barrier in the foreground reads: "Down with Hamad." (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Maamoun Youssef

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A Bahraini anti-government protester gestures in front of riot police on an overpass near Pearl roundabout Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Brian Murphy, Reem Khalifa

Men chant slogans and wave the Egyptian flag during a rally to support Muslims and Christians in national unity at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian January 25 uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, March 11, 2011, two days after 13 were killed and 140 wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians as the police and ruling military struggle to maintain order barely a month after a popular uprising ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) (AP)

Traders of crude oil and natural gas react during early trading at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday, March 11, 2011. The economic fallout from a massive earthquake that struck off the east coast of Japan dipped oil below $100 for the first time this month. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (AP)

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A Libyan volunteer carries ammunition on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies during the Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Budget hearing at Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday March 10, 2011.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (AP)

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, right is welcomed by Saudi officials, upon his arrival at King Khaled airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. King Abdullah has returned after an absence of three months, after surgery on his back in New York and convalescencing in Morocco. (AP Photo) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES (AP)

President Barack Obama returns a Marine honor guard salute as he steps off Marine One upon returning to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, after traveling to education and fundraising events in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Egyptian pro-democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog agency and Egypt's reformist leader, talks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb.4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

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Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who handed control of the country to the military, at night in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Egypt's new Prime Minister designate Essam Sharaf is surrounded by supporters as he gives a speech at the Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 4, 2011. Sharaf vowed before thousands of mostly young demonstrators at the central Cairo square to do everything he could to meet their demands and pleaded for them to turn their attention to "rebuilding" the country. Sharaf was picked by Egypt's ruling military on Thursday march 3, to replace Ahmed Shafiq as prime minister. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2011, file photo Egypt's recently appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq speaks to the media at the Ministry of the Interior in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's military rulers say Thursday March 3, 2011 Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has resigned. Shafiq, a former air force officer, was named prime minister by ousted president Hosni Mubarak shortly after the outbreak on Jan. 25 of massive anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou, File) (Associated Press)

BP PLC's CEO Bob Dudley during a results media conference at their headquarters in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. BP announced Tuesday it is resuming dividend payouts for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, despite suffering its first full-year loss since 1992, and plans to sell off almost half of its U.S. refinery business. BP said a stronger-than-expected end to 2010, in which high oil prices lifted fourth quarter profit by 30 percent, was not enough to avoid a full-year loss of $3.7 billion. It raised to $40.9 billion its estimate for the overall cost of the spill, the charge covering the cost of the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers in April, as well as plugging the well and cleaning up the southern U.S. coast. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) (AP)

Michael T. Klare

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