February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Lebanese army said on Tuesday its sappers had defused a bomb hidden in a wheel near Beirut’s airport road. An army statement said the bomb, which was discovered after a scrap metal dealer brought the wheel to a shop near
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
At least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted mourners at a funeral in Iraq. Around 15 people were injured in the blast in a funeral tent in northeastern Baghdad.
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that separates President Bush’s illusions from the realities of the war. Victory, as the president sees it, requires a stable liberal democracy in Iraq that is pro-American. The NIE describes a war that has no chance of producing that …
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Hamas said on Tuesday it still hoped Washington would soften its position toward a Palestinian unity government despite Israeli statements that the United States and Israel would shun it until it met several conditions.
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Six former officials in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq regime today denied crimes against humanity for a crackdown on Kurds in the 1980s.
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February 20, 2007 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today rejected international demands for his country to suspend its uranium enrichment programme as a UN deadline to do so approached.
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Israel said Tuesday it would stop dealing with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if he goes ahead with plans to join Hamas in a new government, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab allies sought a way to break the Hamas logjam and push forward the stalled peace process.
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Israel said Tuesday it would stop dealing with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if he goes ahead with plans to join Hamas in a new government, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab allies sought a way to break the Hamas logjam and push forward the stalled peace process.
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February 20, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
A suicide bomber struck a funeral in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least seven people as militants show increasing defiance to a major security operation in the capital.
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February 19, 2007 Shia, Shia News
مسئول همایش تشیع Ùˆ خاورشناسان از برگزاری نخستین پیش همایش بین المللی تشیع Ùˆ خاورشناسان در اسÙند ماه جاری در سالن قدس مدرسه عالی امام خمینی قم خبر داد. مسئول همایش تشیع Ùˆ خاورشناسان در جمع خبرنگاران با اشاره به سابقه دیرینه مطالعات خاورشناسان Ùˆ غربیان در زمینه تشیع Ú¯ÙØª: …
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