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Israel orders construction work on an internationally financed football stadium being built for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to be halted.
Easyjet apologises after fashion photographs shot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin were published in its in-flight magazine.
Police are injured as Egypt fans' anger over reported violence after a World Cup game erupts in Cairo.
The six major powers say they are disappointed with Iran's apparent rejection of a deal over its nuclear programme.
Ceremonies take place around the world to mark 20 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Is North Africa succumbing to dynastic rule?
Palestinian factions must unite and start campaigning for statehood, says jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
Sudan joins a diplomatic row between Egypt and Algeria over violence at a World Cup qualifier in Khartoum.
A United Arab Emirates footballer, Salem Saad, has collapsed and died of a heart attack at a training session.
Human remains have been found by a team searching for a British journalist, Alec Collett, who was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1985.
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni vice president on Wednesday vetoed legislation to organize parliamentary elections in January, throwing the measure back to a fractious parliament that spent months haggling over it and threatening to further delay a vote the U.S. military has deemed essential to its plans to...
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JERUSALEM -- City officials moved forward Tuesday with a plan to build 900 homes in a disputed neighborhood of Jerusalem, prompting sharp criticism from the White House, the Palestinians and others who feel it will further undermine the chance of renewing peace talks.
IRAQ Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national elections in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
BAGHDAD -- Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national election in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS)- Senior military and Barack Obama administration officials have been on a full-court press to preempt an anti-Muslim backlash since the shooting spree by a Muslim soldier at Fort Hood, Texas, but right-wing pundits have wasted no time in characterising Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions as an act of terrorism by a radical Islamic extremist.
THE HAGUE, Nov 12 (IPS)-"We fast a long time," says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. "Only to break our fast on a piece of onion."
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (IPS)- A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the "violent and racist" Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets' stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21.
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Nov 8 (IPS)-"Make sure your father gets this," the municipal inspector tells a ten-year-old boy at the gate of the concrete house in an alleyway in the Al-Bustan quarter of Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood right under the shadow of the walled Old City.
NEW YORK, Nov 11 (IPS)- Iraqi minority groups are caught up in a power struggle between the country's Arab-dominated central government and the Kurdish-controlled regional government over the oil-rich Nineveh province - and they are paying with their lives, according Human Rights Watch.
JERUSALEM, Nov 12 (IPS)- Other than to movie aficionados, the refurbishing of an old cinema hall is no cause for great excitement.
ISTANBUL, Nov 16 (IPS)- Success in fighting violence against women may well hinge on partnership with an often overlooked but still a critically vital party - men themselves.
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (IPS)- As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror".
Key issues behind the Palestinian political crisis
JERUSALEM, Nov 16 (IPS)- The Palestinian Authority has embarked on a new strategic drive to get renewed international recognition for the borders of the future Palestinian state. Last Thursday it gained backing for this approach from the Arab League.
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (IPS)- In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, movement in the standoff between the two sides can be as often backward as it is forward. The past couple of weeks have seen moves from both sides that have garnered the attention of the world, but forward progress remains elusive.
JERUSALEM, Nov 18 (IPS)- Along a wall not about to come down - a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost.
EZBT ABBED RABBO, Nov 16 (IPS)- Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel's blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
MUWAQQAR, Jordan, Nov 17 (IPS)- In the bleak and seemingly endless desert expanse that unfolds east of Jordan's capital city, Amman, lies a crucial cog in the ambitious regional designs of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.
RAMALLAH, Nov 17 (IPS)- Following the political deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to take the matter directly to the U.N. Security Council.
CAIRO, Nov 18 (IPS)- As authorities consider suspending a whole academic year to check the spread of swine flu among school children there is a feeling that measures to contain the H1N1 virus - known to be less dangerous than the one responsible for seasonal flu - are going over the top.
BAGHDAD -- A Sunni politician and 12 other men, including some of the politician's relatives, were killed execution-style over the weekend just west of Baghdad.
JERUSALEM -- It is one of the most watched pieces of real estate in the world, 35 acres where an under-the-breath prayer or a whiff of a rumor can rouse warnings of war.
AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan will form a new anti-corruption unit to investigate high-level graft after widespread criticism and demands from the United States that it do more amid a wider regional strategy review.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi throws a party for 200 girls but then tells them why they should become Muslims.
SANAA, YEMEN -- In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he neither ordered nor pressured Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to harm Americans, but that he considered himself a confidant of the Army psychiatrist who was given a glimp...
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad ...
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is creating a department-wide task force to focus on ways to counter the roadside bombs that have caused 80 percent of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan.
RUSSIA Government forces killed more than 20 rebels in Chechnya on Friday, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in the neighboring province of Dagestan killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement authorities said.
When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the t...
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda's efforts to create a haven in the Middle East's poorest nation.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators will be tried in Manhattan federal courthouse less than a mile from Ground Zero, the Justice Department announced Friday, the most concrete demonstration yet of the Obama administration'...
JERUSALEM -- Gaza-born Berlanty Azzam, 21, was two months from receiving her bachelor's degree from Bethlehem University when the past caught up with her.
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