Middle East
Palestinian push for an independent state causes Israeli alarm
Netanyahu to denounce Prime Minister's drive to sidestep Israel and secure support from UN Security Council
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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.
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.
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