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مصالحة سورية سعودية وقتية

2009-01-20T07:45:00.001-08:00

بصراحة ، ما حصل في الكويت و الذي سمي بالمصالحة بين سورية و السعودية تحديدا هو شيء وقتي و مرحلي و خطوة تكتيكية من السعودية من السعودية لإعادة التموضع بعد ما حصل في غزة و الانتقادات الشديدة التي وجهت للسعودية كما مصر. هذه المصالحة مآلها الاصطدام بتضارب المصالح خصوصا في لبنان المقبل على انتخابات حامية لا يمكن تصور تنازل أي من الطرفين عن مصالحه فيها. تذكروا قمة الرياض و العناق بين الرئيس الأسد و الملك عبد الله. وقتها قيل أن مصالحة تمت بين الطرفين لكن الخلاف بين الطرفين تعمق أكثر بعد قمة الرياض مقارنة بما قبلها .

تحية الى ناجي العلي

2008-11-25T21:09:00.001-08:00

International Aquarium

2008-05-22T11:08:00.000-07:00

A green turtle swims in a tank at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo May 18, 2008.

REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN)

It is Spring

2008-05-20T10:35:00.000-07:00

Birds flying at sunset. Starting as a single excited shout, the words rippled down the line: "Hoopoe! Hoopoe! Left! Left! Left!" To the uninitiated ear it sounded like the chant of an excited crowd of football fans. But these gasps of delight came from a jovial group of a dozen binocular-wielding Britons doing what they love best -- birdwatching in Europe's avian megalopolis.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

Protests in Egypt (photos)

2008-04-07T00:58:00.001-07:00

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Animals >>>Again and again !!

2008-03-18T22:18:00.000-07:00

In this photo released by the 'Tiergarten Nuernberg' zoo in Nuremberg on Monday March 17, 2008, polar bear cub Flocke is seen nibbling on her keeper, Petra's foot.

(AP Photo/Tiergarten Nuernberg, Ralf Schedlbauer, HO)

Fiordland penguins Milford, front, and Chalky run past a keeper while out for a stroll out of his enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo Monday, March 17, 2008. Chalky and Milford along with another male, Mr. Munro, are the only Fiordland penguins in captivity and are listed as an vulnerable species found only in New Zealand's south.

(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

At the Zoo

2008-03-08T12:07:00.000-08:00

A photo released by the 'Tiergarten Nuernberg' zoo in Nuremberg on Thursday March 6, 2008 shows polar bear cub Flocke playing with her keeper Petra Fritz.(AP Photo/Tiergarten Nuernberg, Ralf Schedlbauer)

A polar bear jumps into the water at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec March 6, 2008.REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger (CANADA)

Watfa al-Ghanem

2008-03-01T01:18:00.000-08:00

Watfa al-Ghanem shows her identification card, which states that she was born in 1880, in her home in the village of Al-Sheirat in the Syrian city of Homs February 29, 2008. Al-Ghanem, 128, who has been married once and has four children, said that she has farmed for more than 100 years.REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA)

Moon Eclipse

2008-02-21T14:35:00.000-08:00

A sequence of images taken approximately every twenty minutes show the moon passing through the shadow of the earth as photographed in Toronto Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008. A total lunar eclipse, can only occur on a full moon, when the moon passes through the shadow of the earth. The next total lunar eclipse will not be visible from North America until Dec. 21, 2010.

(AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)

2008-02-21T14:05:00.000-08:00

Seward Johnson's sculpture "The Awakening" is driven on a truck from East Patomac Park in Washington to its new home at the National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland, February 20, 2008. The aluminum sculpture includes five cast elements and is more than 70 feet across.

REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)

Valentine's day

2008-02-16T05:23:00.000-08:00

A couple kisses on Kiev's Bridge of Lovers on Valentine's Day February 14, 2008.

REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE)

At the Zoo

2008-02-14T13:51:00.000-08:00

Flamingos are seen in a zoo in Riyadh February 13, 2008.REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA)

Palestine

2008-02-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

Palestinian youths and children play during sunset in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Iraq's Crisis

2008-02-11T13:02:00.001-08:00

Iraqi policemen parade with the new Iraqi flag during their graduation ceremony at a military base in Baghdad. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said in Baghdad on Monday that he was in favour of a short pause in troop drawdowns from Iraq after about 30,000 soldiers have been sent home by July.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Poverty in Pakistan

2008-02-08T08:42:00.000-08:00

Pakistani men and women rise their hands to get bread donated by anonymous worshippers next to a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. During the run up to the parliamentary elections on Feb. 18, basic food and fuel prices have soared in Pakistan over the last month, causing most to depend on government subsidies to simply get by. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Iraqi's crisis

2008-02-08T08:36:00.001-08:00

A US soldier with the 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field, studies a map as he patrols in his armored vehicle the Azamiyah neighborhood in north Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Iraqi's crisis

2008-02-08T08:36:00.000-08:00

2008-02-07T16:17:00.000-08:00

A model displays body make-up by Nadia Brito at a contest during carnival festivities in Las Palmas on the Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria, late February 5, 2008. Picture taken February 5, 2008.REUTERS/Borja Suarez (SPAIN)

Chad Crisis

2008-02-06T08:33:00.000-08:00

A man rides by a bicycle by a destroyed tank in the capital city N'Djamena, on February 5 after a weekend of heavy fighting between government forces and rebels. Underlying the Chad conflict is a struggle to control the country's oil resources, which while not extensive are nonetheless vital to the future of one of Africa's most impoverished nations.(AFP/Sonia Rolley)

Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh (C), the Kingdom's grand mufti, and residents pray during the funeral of the Saudi woman and her daughter who were killed in Chad, at the Grand Mosque in Riyadh February 6, 2008. A bomb attack on the residence of the Saudi ambassador to Chad killed the wife and daughter of an embassy employee taking shelter from the fighting between the government and rebel forces.REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA)

Iranian satellite program

2008-02-04T04:16:00.000-08:00

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, surrounded by officials, stands under a research rocket, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Iran launched a research rocket Monday and unveiled its first major space center that will be used to launch research satellites, state-run television reported.(AP Photo/ISNA, Mehdi Ghasemi)

Iraq's crisis

2008-02-04T03:59:00.000-08:00

Iraqi soldiers secure the area after a police convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in central Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Four policemen and one civilian were hurt in the blast, police said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

frozen artificial waterfall

2008-02-02T13:06:00.000-08:00

A man climbs up a frozen artificial waterfall in the Swiss mountain resort of Pontresina January 26, 2008.REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND)

Internet cable

2008-02-02T08:03:00.000-08:00

Internet cable links between Europe, Asia and the Middle East. A United Arab Emirates telecoms operator fears damage to an undersea cable off Dubai could further disrupt Internet services after two cables were cut earlier this week.(AFP Graphic)

Super Bowl XLII Lingerie Bowl football game

2008-02-01T13:27:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles Temptation Lauren Bergfeld (R) breaks away from New York Euphoria Jen Johnson (L) and Sheena Mariano during the third annual Lingerie Bowl football game in Los Angeles February 5, 2006. The game was aired locally on pay-per-view during halftime of the XL Super Bowl.(Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

2008-01-31T12:34:00.000-08:00

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari walks across a quadrangle at Christ Church College in Oxford, southern England January 11, 2008. The son of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and now Chairman of the Pakistani People's Party, is beginning a new term as an undergraduate student at Oxford University.

REUTERS/Toby Melville(BRITAIN)

Iran Peacful Nuclear program

2008-01-31T12:23:00.000-08:00

An Iranian technician working at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities in 2007. A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran was close to its target of producing nuclear energy and launched a new tirade against Israel as world powers seek to impose new sanctions on Iran.

(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)

Fairuz in Damascus

2008-01-30T13:18:00.001-08:00

Lebanese diva Fairouz performs in the musical 'Sah al-Nom' at the opera house in Damascus January 28, 2008. The sold-out performance was the first appearance for the Arab singing legend in Syria in two decades.(Ramzi Haidar/Pool/Reuters)

Rare snowstorm hits the Middle East

2008-01-30T13:15:00.000-08:00

Pharmaceutical Industry

2008-01-30T02:50:00.000-08:00

The logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is seen in Basel, Switzerland, in this Aug. 12, 2005 file photo. Pharmaceuticals giant Roche Holding AG said Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 strong sales of its anti-cancer drugs helped lift full-year net profit by 25 percent to 11.44 billion Swiss francs (US$10.48 billion; euro7.09 billion). Sales reached 46.1 billion francs (US$42.22 billion; euro28.58 billion), beating those of its rival Novartis, which posted sales last year of 43.5 billion francs (US$39.83 billion; euro26.97 billion).

(AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

Pakistan Crisis

2008-01-29T04:46:00.000-08:00

A Pakistani soldier mans a makeshift post in Spinkai Raghzai area of restive North Waziristan tribal region, 100 km (63 miles) from western town of Dera Ismael Khan January 29, 2008. Violence has intensified in northwestern Pakistan in recent weeks with militants attacking security forces, who have mounted counter-attacks in response.REUTERS/Mustansar Baloch (PAKISTAN)

10 People Burned Alive in New Kenya Violence

2008-01-28T12:54:00.000-08:00

A Kenyan opposition supporter runs past blazing cars, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, Nairobi, Kenya. Dozens of protesters set fire to an office building Wednesday after police fired tear gas at youths throwing rocks outside a memorial service, which was held in honour of victims of the country's election violence. (Karel Prinsloo/AP Photo)

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi

2008-01-28T00:43:00.001-08:00

Italy's caretaker Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who resigned on Thursday after losing a Senate confidence vote, walks home after a church service with his grandchildren Davide and Chiara (R) in their hometown of Bologna January 27, 2008. Italy's government crisis enters a decisive week with a snap election and a return to power of Silvio Berlusconi's centre right looking ever more likely.

REUTERS/Marco Bucco (ITALY)

Protests in Lebanon Leave 7 Dead

2008-01-27T14:34:00.000-08:00

Opposition supporters set tyres on fire as they try to block the main road leading to Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. Dozens of angry people protesting electricity rationing closed a major intersection south of Beirut Sunday and troops had to shoot in the air to disperse the angry demonstrators, security officials said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Drug trafficking

2008-01-27T07:05:00.000-08:00

A customs officer holds a tube of heroin hidden inside a wooden plank in Beirut January 18, 2008. Lebanese army and customs seized 38.3 kg of heroin, worth more than $400,000, in 766 tubes hidden in the wooden cargo from South America.REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON)

Polar Bears

2008-01-27T07:03:00.000-08:00

Female polar bear Vera carries one of its cubs in an enclosure at the zoo in Nuremberg

January , 2008.(Stringer/Reuters)

African cup of Nations

2008-01-27T02:56:00.000-08:00

To get past Eto'o : Zambia's James Chamanga(L) stops a ball in front of Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o during their match in Kumasi at the African Cup of Nations football championship.(AFP/Joe Klamar)

AFP Top Photo

2008-01-27T02:54:00.001-08:00

Pucker up : Child "groom" Maurice (2ndR) kisses his "bride" Lenka (2ndL) during a traditional Sorbian "birds wedding" celebrated to greet the upcoming end of the winter at a kindergarten in Cottbus, eastern Germany.(AFP/DDP/Michael Urban)

Ex-Indonesian dictator Suharto dies

2008-01-27T02:51:00.000-08:00

Former Indonesian President Suharto announces his resignation, after 32 years in power, at the presidential palace in Jakarta in this May 21,1998 file photo. Suharto has died, a senior police official told reporters on January 27, 2008 at the hospital where he was being treated.(Enny Nuraheni/Files/Reuters)

Paris Haute Couture Collections

2008-01-27T02:48:00.000-08:00

Paris catwalk : A model presents a creation by French designer Eymeric Francois during Spring/Summer 2008 Haute Couture collection show in Paris.(AFP/Francois Guillot)

Fiery performance

2008-01-26T21:46:00.000-08:00

Fiery performance : Indian soldiers from the Light Maratha Infrantry perform a traditional sport called Malkhumb during Republic Day celebrations in Bangalore.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

Obama wins

2008-01-26T21:38:00.000-08:00

Obama routs Clinton in South Carolina(AP/Steven Senne)