Middle East
World Focus: Without Abbas, does doomsday loom?
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?"
Inside Middle East
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.
Iran calls for talks over UN nuclear deal
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Tehran appears to be stalling after earlier concessions to the West
Clinton backs Israel on settlements stance
Monday, 2 November 2009
Agreement would allow settlers to finish 3,000 houses plus public buildings
Jewish extremist held for hate crimes
Monday, 2 November 2009
Israelis targeted by a suspected extremist Jewish settler called for harsh penalties if the man, accused of a series of murders and attempted murders, is found guilty.
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