Middle East
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Intel Sabbath work
More than a thousand devout Jews are protesting in Jerusalem against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on Saturdays.
Inside Middle East
Iran creates new spy agency to fight protests
Friday, 13 November 2009
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has created a powerful new intelligence organisation to try to quell any further public unrest in the wake of June's disputed election, an exiled Iranian opposition group said yesterday.
New law defuses Iraqi ballot row
Monday, 9 November 2009
Iraq's parliament yesterday passed a long-delayed election law paving the way for a national vote in January after overcoming a potentially explosive row over the disputed city of Kirkuk, lawmakers said.
World Focus: Without Abbas, does doomsday loom?
Saturday, 7 November 2009
When Western diplomats considered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's announcement that he did not want to stand for re-election yesterday, they must have asked themselves the famous question attributed to Metternich about the death of a rival, "What did he mean by that?"
UN chief sending Gaza war crimes report to Security Council
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he will send a report calling for Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza to the UN Security Council "as soon as possible."
Abbas makes shock decision not stand in Palestinian poll
Friday, 6 November 2009
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, last night chided the US and announced that he did not want to stand for another term in elections officially scheduled for January.
Iran's reformists use key anniversary to defy regime
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Official rallies marking 1979 hostage crisis hijacked by opposition marchers. By Katherine Butler.
Israel seizes cache of arms ‘bound for Lebanon’
Thursday, 5 November 2009
The Israeli navy yesterday seized a ship carrying what defence officials said was five hundred tons of Iranian-supplied weapons bound for Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, including Katyusha rockets that could be used in the event of renewed Israel-Hizbollah hostilities.
Paedophile rapist to be beheaded and crucified in Saudi Arabia
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
A man who kidnapped and raped five children, one of whom was left in the desert to die, has been sentenced to be beheaded and his body publicly crucified.
Settlement by stealth belies promises of restraint
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Hillary Clinton has praised Israel for its policy on settlers but, the displacements go on
Clinton backtracks on Israeli settlements after Arab anger
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, was forced into an awkward diplomatic pirouette yesterday, insisting to Arab foreign ministers that Washington had not capitulated to Israel's continuing hunger for new Jewish settlements even if statements she had made 24 hours earlier seemed to imply exactly that.
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