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Are you an Iraqi working to support relatives abroad?
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Israel allows some humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, easing the blockade of the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory.
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Sunni militants kill 13 police officers captured in south-eastern Iran in June, says authorities.
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Two suspected suicide car bombers hit the Iraqi city of Falluja killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police say.
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Israeli forces begin evicting Jewish settlers from a disputed building in the West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses say.
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The new face of the West Bank's 'martyr's capital'
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak meets settler leaders over a disputed building s in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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Lebanese Christian leader Michel Aoun, who fought a "war of liberation" against Syrian troops, meets Syria's president.
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An Iraqi journalist is jailed over a story about homosexuality which prosecutors say violated a public decency law.
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At the soup kitchen hit by the economic downturn
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US forces kill a suspected member of an Iranian-backed militant group and arrest two others in Baghdad.
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The UN body investigating the killing of Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri says fresh evidence could help identify new suspects.
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An Israeli military court convicts the Speaker of the Palestinian parliament of being a member of Hamas.
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Israeli military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have left the Palestinians dead.
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Thousands of people attend funerals in Israel for Jewish and Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks.
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An Iraqi court sentences Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, to death for his role in crushing a 1991 Shia uprising.
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Jewish settlers riot in the West Bank city of Hebron, clashing with Israeli troops who normally protect them.
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A court in Jordan jails a man for more than seven years for strangling his sister in a so-called honour killing.
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The Gulf emirate of Sharjah is to ban people in certain, mainly menial, jobs from applying for driving licenses, a report says.
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The Iranian government is to set up a network of marriage bureaux to help young Iranians find a husband or wife.
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At least 32 people have died in bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, officials say.
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Reactions to Barack Obama's election victory
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Israeli and Jewish victims of the attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai are to be flown to Israel for burial, officials say.
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A Libyan cargo ship carrying humanitarian supplies for the Gaza Strip turns back before reaching the territory.
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Dead Iraqi and Iranian soldiers from the 1980-88 war are exchanged, in the first such move since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Israel approves the release of 250 prisoners after an earlier promise from outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Two foreign UN contractors are killed and 15 injured in a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone.
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Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen clash along the border fence that separates Gaza from Israel.
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An Iranian court rules that a man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded.
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A suicide bomber kills nine people in an attack on a Shia mosque south of Baghdad during Friday prayers, Iraqi police say.
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Hebron residents and settlers gear up for eviction
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Vote on US troops shows Iraqi democracy at work
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Police fire warning shots and hurl batons at an opposition rally in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, as protesters and police are injured.
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The Iraqi parliament approves a plan on the future of US forces in Iraq, paving the way for complete withdrawal by 2011.
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The leader of Israel's governing Party, Tzipi Livni, calls on Ehud Olmert to quit after the attorney-general says he may charge him.
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What has been achieved one year after Annapolis?
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Iran executes 10 people convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison, including a woman who killed her husband.
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Iran says it has launched its second space rocket this year, part of plans to put an Iranian-made satellite in orbit.
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Iraqi MPs delay a crucial vote on a plan to withdraw all US troops from the country by the end of 2011.
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Israel permits limited aid and fuel deliveries into Gaza, which has been under an intensified blockade for three weeks.
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A human rights groups accuses Israel's military of failing to prosecute those guilty of abusing Palestinians.
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Glimmers of hope on Golan Heights over possible deal
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The BBC uncovers evidence of serious overcrowding and poor living conditions in one of Iraq's prisons.
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The only power plant in the Gaza Strip is shut by energy authorities who say Israel will not allow the urgent delivery of spare parts.
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The BBC is given exclusive access to a Baghdad prison
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Commentators in the Arab press highlighted the "symbolic" nature of Abbas' appointment to a nominal post last held by Yasser Arafat.
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The government of Kuwait tenders its resignation, in an effort to stop MPs questioning the prime minister, reports say.
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Tehran cab service puts women in the driver's seat
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Two Britons found guilty of having sex on a Dubai beach are to be sent back to the UK without spending any time in jail.
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Iraqis on government control of Sunni groups
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Lebanese President Michel Suleiman holds talks with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak says Hezbollah has three times as many missiles as it had before the 2006 Lebanon war.
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At least 19 people have been killed and many others wounded in three bomb attacks in Baghdad.
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Poverty-stricken Yemen inaugurates a US $60m mosque
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Iran's President Ahmadinejad says his country will not be damaged by sharply falling oil prices.
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Israel temporarily reopens border crossings with the Gaza Strip to allow in essential supplies of food and fuel.
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The Palestinian Authority names its president, Mahmoud Abbas, head of a future Palestinian state but Hamas rejects the move.
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Eight Israeli teenagers who carried out neo-Nazi attacks and ran a far-right cell are convicted and sentenced in Tel Aviv.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warns he will call elections if talks with Hamas fail to make progress.
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Doha's Islamic museum
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A 45-year-old Iranian man convicted of spying for Iran's arch foe Israel is hanged, reports from Tehran say.
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Three human rights activists detained with Palestinian fishermen off Gaza by Israel say they have gone on hunger strike.
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Israel increases security in the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of a Jewish pilgrimage there by an expected 20,000 people.
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Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr stage protests in Baghdad against a deal to allow US troops to remain in Iraq.
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One person is killed and three are wounded in a shoot-out in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security forces say.
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Improved security in Iraq has led to 800 doctors returning so far this year, a senior health ministry official says.
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The Palestinian Authority has placed a full-page advert in Israel's Hebrew newspapers to promote an Arab peace plan.
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Israel's prime minister and defence minister made a secret visit to Jordan on Tuesday to discuss the Gaza Strip, officials say.
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Jewish settlers protesting against an eviction order in Hebron spray an insult to the Prophet Muhammad on a mosque wall.
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Yemen faces economic and political turmoil as its oil runs out, with security implications for the whole region, a report says.
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Gazans report worst ever living conditions
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Palestinians describe life under the Israeli blockade
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A Syrian site bombed by Israel last year had features resembling those of a nuclear reactor site, a UN atomic watchdog report says.
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Syria and the UK have been holding high-level intelligence talks in order to combat terrorism, Syrian officials tell BBC.
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Al-Qaeda deputy leader calls on Muslims to harm America, describing President-elect Obama as a "house slave".
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Israeli police removed a protest tent set up by a Palestinian family evicted from their home of 52 years in East Jerusalem.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon tells Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert he is deeply concerned over conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki defends a deal on the presence of US forces in Iraq, saying it preserves Iraqi sovereignty.
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Iranian MPs narrowly approve President Ahmadinejad's choice for interior minister, two weeks after sacking his predecessor.
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The Israeli blockade of Gaza deprives Palestinians "basic human rights", and must end immediately, the UN's human rights chief says.
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Awakening Council move hailed as a success in Iraq
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The Israeli military launches an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip, clashing with Palestinian gunmen.
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A Cairo court orders the suspension of gas exports to Israel, although it is not clear if the ruling will be heeded.
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Two Britons found guilty of having sex on a Dubai beach have an appeal against their convictions adjourned.
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrives in Syria for a meeting with President Bashar al-Assad.
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Israel has briefly reopened the border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow in a convoy of humanitarian aid.
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Head of the UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei says a report he will present on Syrian nuclear activity is "inconclusive".
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The head of one of Israel's most notorious crime families is blown up in his car in Tel Aviv, raising fears of a bloody mob conflict.
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Media are banned from the Cairo trial of politician Hisham Talaat Mustafa, charged with murdering pop diva Suzanne Tamim.
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Abu Dhabi is determined to scale the cultural heights
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Court ruling creates strange Israeli bedfellows
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An Israeli air strike kills four Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip, further straining a five-month ceasefire.
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A car bomb kills 10 people outside a car dealership in the north Iraqi town of Tal Afar while three die in a blast in Baghdad.
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A member of a Palestinian militant group has been killed and another badly hurt in an explosion in the Gaza Strip, medical workers say.
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Eviction after five decades in battle for East Jerusalem
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Archaeologists find what they think is the largest ancient church in Syria - probably dating back some 1,500 years.
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Can the ancient city regain its lost heritage status?
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The Israeli military says it will try by court martial a number of soldiers over the abuse of a blindfolded Palestinian.
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A historic pursuit in war-torn Beirut, but for how long?
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A cargo plane with seven people on board crashes in Iraq's western Anbar province after taking off near Falluja.
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A man hanging from wall in Cairo sparks a brief emergency, before rescuers find it its just a German art exhibit.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres praises highly the king of Saudi Arabia for his Middle East peace initiative.
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Algerian newspapers comment on the parliamentary vote to allow President Bouteflika to run for a third term.
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People in Gaza may be without UN food aid from Saturday, after Israel refused to allow in emergency supplies. The territory has been sealed off since 5 November; Israel says continued mortar fire from Gaza militants is to blame. Three Gazans describe how the enforced closure has affected them.
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