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Large oil companies such as France's Total and Spain's Repsol are well-known names. Mabruk Oil and Akakoss Petroleum Operations, not...

The Taleban and Al-Qaida have stooped to a new level, allowing for a 12 year old boy to decapitate a "traitor ." The incident occu...

According to Virginia Tech President and officials, Virginia Tech senior from South Korea was behind the massacre of at least 32 people loc...

A Palestinian group claims it has killed the abducted BBC reporter, Alan Johnston . A statement was released and signed by the Palestinian J...

Hamas has repeatedly talked about a "truce" with Israel, which the world has urged the Israelis to accept as a sufficient alternat...

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For a while it looked like Sunni Arab nations led by Saudi Arabia were prepared to go as far as to side with Israel in order to counter the ...