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Israel is aiding an exiled sheikh who is vying to seize control of an important Gulf emirate some 65 kms from Iran. Full Story »
PALESTINIAN ARENA
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Silvan Shalom, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, on Wednesday said that it was "impossible" to accept the conditions set by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to move to direct negotiations wi -
U.S President Barack Obama has warned his Palestinian counterpart to engage in direct talks with Israel if he wants Washington's support in establishing a Palestinian state. -
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld on Monday said "four Israeli settlers were wounded. -
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that despite heavy international pressure from the "entire world," he is still not ready to start direct negotiations with Israel. -
The chief of Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, on Wednesday said the issue of negotiating with the enemy is sensitive and affects many people.
CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in Amman. -
An Nahar newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Lebanese army intelligence arrested a German engineer. -
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi on Monday warned Israel that "any injudicious action" will lead to the annihilation of the Israeli regime. -
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday threatened to launch attacks on the Lebanese government institutions, if Hizbullah fired rockets at Israeli cities. -
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel on Sunday began serving a jail term for spitting at a police officer and leading a demonstration near Jerusalem's Old City in 2007.
DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ
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A sandstorm downed an Iraqi military helicopter Wednesday, killing its five-man crew. -
Twin car bombs killed 25 people in the Shi'ite city of Karbala in southern Iraq on Monday. -
A suicide car bomb attack on Monday morning was targeting Al Arabiya TV offices in central Baghdad. At least three people were killed and 16 wounded, according to a source in the Interior Ministry. -
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr met on Monday in the Syrian capital Damascus in an effort to overcome the obstacles which hinder the formation of a -
Iraqi police said Monday that four people were killed and and five others were wounded by a suicide car bomb which targeted a convoy carrying employees of a British company in northern Iraq.
LEBANON & SYRIA
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Beirut is due to welcome Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday for summit talks with Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman. -
Units from the Lebanese army's fifth brigade started to arrive in towns in southern Lebanon's western and central sectors. -
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Sunday for the establishment of a Lebanese committee to investigate the issue of false witnesses in relation to former PM Rafik Hariri. -
Lebanon's prime minister has informed Hizbullah that a UN tribunal probing the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri will accuse members of the Shiite party, its chief said on Thursday. -
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri called for stronger Lebanese-Syrian relations closer at the start of his visit to Damascus,. Hariri arrived in Syria on Sunday for a two-day visit.
REGIONAL NEWS
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A blast hit a Japanese oil tanker in early Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran and Oman, and the crew attributed the explosion to an attack, the Japanese transport ministry said. -
Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai on Wednesday amde his first government reshuffle, which included walkaway of six ministers and the joining of seven new, according to a Jordanian official. -
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton called on Chad on Thursday to detain Sudan's visiting President Omar al-Beshir and hand him over to an international court to face genocide charges. -
At least 40 people have been killed after four days of clashes in north Yemen. -
The New York Times newspaper reported on Monday that the illness of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is serious
THE IRANIAN FILE
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday slammed Western approach towards Iran, urging all European countries to rectify their policies and observe rights of nations. -
Tehran said on Thursday that the nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri who has returned from the United States after he disappeared in mysterious circumstances was a double agent. -
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said the intelligence services of the US, Israel and Britain were the main supporters of the recent terrorist attacks in Iran. -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday said Iran's enemies are "idiots". -
Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi on Sunday said that his country would respond to foreign companies that are retreating from signed contracts to adhere to the international sanctions imposed on
WAR ON TERROR
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Three suspected al Qaeda members have been killed by Yemeni forces following an assault in the country's Shabwa province on Monday. -
One person was killed and eight were wounded in a suicide bombing at dawn Sunday against members of the Algerian National Gendarmerie. -
Eyewitnesses said gunmen attacked two offices of the Yemeni Intelligence Agency in the Abyan province in southern Yemen on Wednesday. -
Ten al-Qaeda members were arrested by the Yemeni security services in Hadrmout province, east Yemen. -
A security source in northern Mali said on Thursday that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the attack which killed 11 Algerian security members.
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