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Students beaten in new Iran protests
Thousands clash with riot police during nationwide demonstrations
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Police surround Tehran university protesters
Monday, 7 December 2009
Thousands of riot police and Revolutionary Guard members armed with tear gas, batons and firearms were deployed outside Tehran University today to prevent student demonstrations backed by the opposition.
Baghdad's nightclubs closed in moral crusade
Monday, 7 December 2009
Authorities have closed all Baghdad nightclubs and dozens of shops selling alcohol, concerned for "public morals," the city's governor said yesterday. Police have closed 95 unlicensed clubs and 42 liquor stores since the start of November. reuters
Family pleads for return of father sentenced to death for witchcraft
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Lebanese pilgrim, arrested and convicted in Saudi Arabia on sorcery charges for his role in a TV show, due to be executed on Thursday
Iran says it needs 20 enrichment sites
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Iran's vice-president said today his country needs 20 industrial-scale uranium enrichment facilities, a potentially dramatic expansion of its nuclear program in defiance of UN demands.
Tel Aviv: Why did a lone gunman shoot 13 people in cold blood in one of the world's gay capitals?
Saturday, 5 December 2009
At 10.20pm on Saturday 1 August 2009, a man walked along Nachmani Street, a residential road in central Tel Aviv. He went into the apartment block at number 28 and down a flight of steps to the basement flat, where a song by Blur was playing on the stereo amid the sound of laughter and conversation. There, the man shot 13 people, killing 26-year-old Nir Katz and 16-year-old Liz Trobishi, before returning up the steps and disappearing into the promenading crowds. His identity remains unknown.
Iraqi lawyer defending ex-soldier fails in bid to visit client's UK family
Friday, 4 December 2009
An Iraqi lawyer due to defend the first British man to face a murder trial in the country cannot get a visa to visit his client’s family in the UK.
Britain's 'meaty' Iraq role aimed to influence US
Friday, 4 December 2009
Britain committed a large land force to invasion of Iraq in the hope that it would "buy" influence with the United States, the official inquiry into the war was told today.
Jewish West Bank settlers vow to defy Netanyahu's building freeze
Friday, 4 December 2009
Defiant West Bank settler leaders rejected a personal plea from the Prime Minister yesterday to respect a government-ordered residential construction freeze, vowing to keep confronting security forces sent to enforce the edict.
Mogadishu blast kills three government ministers
Thursday, 3 December 2009
An explosion that tore through a hotel in Somalia's lawless capital Mogadishu on Thursday killed three government ministers and at least one other person, witnesses and senior government sources said
British yachtsmen: 'We're a bit overweight because they fed us so much'
Thursday, 3 December 2009
An en suite bathroom, 24-hour room service... freed sailors relive their experiences in Iranian custody
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