News About Wars On Planet Earth 18-JUL-08 en-us Washington (UPI) Jul 14, 2008 - After years of isolation and being shunned by the Europeans and the United States as punishment for a long sundry list of political no-no's, Syrian President Bashar Assad was offered an enticing hand by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, hoping to persuade the Syrian leader to abandon the ways of the past.]]> ]]> London, UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2008 - According to the Department of Trade and Industry there are 4.5 million businesses in the UK of which 99.3% are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), employing 0-49 employees. These comprise 58.9% of the total workforce of 24.4 million and account for 51.9% of the 2,600 billion pound UK turnover.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2008 - The accurate documentation of deaths during wars and other humanitarian emergencies is critical to grading the severity of the crisis and adjusting relief operations accordingly, and yet collection of data on death rates is often incomplete, say two researchers in this week's PLoS Medicine.]]> Berlin (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 - A high-ranking Berlin conference on Middle East security kicked off with eclat and ended with a pledge for $242 million in aid money for the Palestinian authorities.]]> ]]> Gaza City (AFP) June 25, 2008 - The clouds of war may have parted over the Gaza Strip but Hani al-Qayed still stands watch over his family home, looking down from a gaudy portrait that honours his death in an Israeli air strike.]]> Paris (AFP) June 19, 2008 - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday he did not expect direct Israeli-Syrian peace talks before next year, and not without US sponsorship.]]> Jerusalem (AFP) May 25, 2008 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that indirect peace talks with Syria, a process begun more than a year ago and confirmed this week, will be conducted seriously and in secrecy.]]> ]]> Damascus (AFP) May 21, 2008 - Syria and Israel on Wednesday revealed they have resumed the peace talks severed in 2000 that Damascus expects to lead to the recovery of the strategic Golan Heights.]]> Brussels (UPI) May 19, 2008 - As President George W. Bush wraps up his trip to the Middle East, controversial Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, a passionate supporter of Bush and the U.S. war on terrorism, called on him to drop his "double agenda" in the region by ending support to Islamic states like Saudi Arabia.]]> Washington (UPI) May 19, 2008 - The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once noted that the style of magical realism that he pioneered was perhaps the only way to convey the surreal contradictions of the wretched Latin America of the dictators. That insight has seldom been so exemplified as during U.S. President George Bush's farewell tour of the Middle East.]]> ]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) May 13, 2008 - Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, with an assist from Sen. Joe Lieberman, competed in freshly minted assurances of allegiance to Israel as it embarked on a weeklong 60th birthday party. Neocons have hinted darkly that Obama, whose middle name is Hussein, was born a Muslim who later grew up as a Christian -- which, they say, makes him an apostate and puts him at risk of execution by an Islamist extremist. Proof of Obama's extraterritorial allegiance? A Hamas official who said, in an interview, "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." That was enough for McCain to suggest Obama was soft on terrorism.]]> Moscow (UPI) May 14, 2008 - Analysts are actively debating the possible outcomes of an armed conflict between Georgia and the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, which seceded from Georgia in 1992. ]]> Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 - Lebanon has always been a country that has stood out from the rest of the Middle East for a number of reasons -- primarily because Lebanon consistently has been a country of many contradictions.]]> Advertise in Space War and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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