Middle East
Iran's opposition defiant in face of crackdown
Former vice-president sentenced to six years for his part in post-election protests
Inside Middle East
Remains found in hunt for missing journalist
Thursday, 19 November 2009
A forensics team searching for the body of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants more than 20 years ago recovered human remains in Lebanon, the Foreign Office said today.
Vice-President's veto darkens Iraq election
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice-President yesterday vetoed an election law over the number of parliamentary seats for refugees, prompting poll workers to halt preparations and casting fresh doubt on whether the vote can be held in January.
Iran drops in corruption list amid calls for new urgency in the West
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
The new edition of a global "corruption index" has seen Iran fall into the bottom 10, ranking it one of the world's most crookedly run countries.
Israeli minister plans to send troops into schools to boost conscription
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Soldiers would meet teachers in bid to encourage students to join up
Donald Macintyre: Palestinians throw down challenge to Obama and UN
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
As so often in the Middle East, we have been here before. The latest suggestion – that a frustrated Palestinian leadership would unilaterally declare a state and invite international recognition for it – is not new. It was made a decade ago by Yasser Arafat when Benjamin Netanyahu, then as now, was Prime Minister. It was made again after the collapse of the Camp David talks a year later, when then Prime Minister Ehud Barak, like some of Mr Netanyahu's more hawkish ministers now, threatened to annex the most populous settlements in the West Bank in retaliation. And as the second intifada – and Israel's determined military response to it – gathered momentum, nothing came of it.
Palestinian push for an independent state causes Israeli alarm
Monday, 16 November 2009
Netanyahu to denounce Prime Minister's drive to sidestep Israel and secure support from UN Security Council
Iraqi 'was beaten and sexually abused'
Monday, 16 November 2009
Lawyer says new claims point to 'systematic abuse' of detainees by British soldiers
British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Graphic torture allegations emerge as lawyer warns of hundreds of legal cases
Toxic munitions 'may be cause' of baby deaths and deformities in Fallujah
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah – scene in 2004 of one of the few set-piece battles of the invasion – are exhibiting high rates of mortality and birth defects.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Intel Sabbath work
Saturday, 14 November 2009
More than a thousand devout Jews are protesting in Jerusalem against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on Saturdays.
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