Middle East
Police pour into Mosul to protect Christians from sectarian killings
One of the world's oldest Christian communities is being forced to flee the Iraqi city in their thousands.
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Iraqi PM: British troops not necessary
Monday, 13 October 2008
Iraq's prime minister said the 4,100 British troops in southern Iraq are no longer necessary to provide security, a newspaper reported today.
Tehranologist: Kofi Annan in Iran
Monday, 13 October 2008
Kofi Annan, Romano Prodi, Kjell Magne Bondevik (President of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights and former Norwegian Prime Minster), and Federico Mayor (former UNECO Director-General) are currently among the guests of Mohammad Khatami, the former reformist Iranian president who introduced the idea of "Dialogue among Civilisations". Other guests include former presidents of Ireland, Switzerland, Bosnia, and form
Daniella Weiss: 'The Arabs are a filter through which we find our way to land'
Sunday, 12 October 2008
Militant pro-settlement activist who wants to see a Greater Israel, goes on trial today
Baghdad car bomb kills nine, wounds 13
Sunday, 12 October 2008
A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 13 in the Bayaa district of southern Baghdad today, police said.
Chickpea wars: Israelis up in arms at bid to stop them selling hummus
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Threatened lawsuit would allow only Lebanese makers to use dish's traditional name
Lebanon lays claim to favourite Israeli dish
Friday, 10 October 2008
Donald Macintyre: Itzhak Rachmo had only one word to describe a threatened Lebanese lawsuit against Israeli hummus sellers. "Bullshit".
Corruption blamed as cholera rips through Iraq
Friday, 10 October 2008
A cholera outbreak in Iraq is being blamed on corrupt officials who failed to sterilise the local drinking water.
Jews protect Palestinians in harvest of hate
Friday, 10 October 2008
Israelis cross religious divide to shelter olive farmers from settlers' attacks
US blamed for killing of prominent Shia MP
Friday, 10 October 2008
A powerful member of the Iraqi parliament that is loyal to the anti-American Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was killed in a carefully planned assassination in Baghdad yesterday.
Tehranologist: The mystery of the honourary PhD
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Ali Kordan, the Iranian Interior Minister, sent a letter to the President, admitting his PhD was fake. This, in itself, was surprising but inevitable, as this controversy has continued unrelentingly since August.
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