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03/12/2010 02:22 PM
Opponents File Challenges as Maliki Is Said to Hold Early Edge in Iraq Vote
Fraud charges heightened concerns over whether Iraq?s fledgling institutions were strong enough to support a peaceful transfer of power.

03/12/2010 08:40 AM
Israel Seals Off West Bank to Prevent Unrest
Israel wants to prevent Palestinians to enter the country for 48 hours, in reaction to clashes following Friday prayers that have taken place in the past few weeks.

03/12/2010 12:18 AM
Biden to Leave Mideast Amid Uncertainty and Unease
Uncertainty over talks with the Palestinians seems to have grown during the vice president?s visit.

03/12/2010 02:30 AM
Palestinians Honor a Figure Reviled in Israel as a Terrorist
Palestinian students dedicated a public square to the memory of Dalal Mughrabi, who in 1978 helped carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel?s history.

03/12/2010 02:20 AM
Hamas Releases British Journalist After 25 Days
British officials took Paul Martin, a freelance filmmaker, to Israel after Hamas officials ended his 25-day detention.

03/12/2010 12:20 AM
Israel Charges 2 Soldiers in Gaza War Case
Two Israeli soldiers were charged with instructing a Palestinian boy to open several bags they suspected were booby-trapped during Israel?s 2009 military campaign in Gaza.

03/12/2010 12:20 AM
Gates Meets With Ruler of Emirates on Iran
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met the Emirati leader over military defenses and growing fears in the Persian Gulf over possible missile attacks by Iran.

03/11/2010 09:30 PM
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Giving Is Its Own Reward
Israel is starting an experiment in organ donation: sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one is needed.

03/11/2010 12:14 PM
Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display
For the first time, the complete, original manuscript of the theory of relativity, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display in Jerusalem.

03/11/2010 02:50 AM
In Saudi Arabia, Gates Seeks to Bolster Effort Against Iran
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will discuss military cooperation and Iran?s nuclear program, officials said.

03/10/2010 11:09 PM
President Ahmadinejad of Iran and Defense Secretary Gates Trade Jabs Over Afghanistan
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected American allegations that Iran was providing support to the Taliban, accusing the United States of playing a ?double game.?

03/11/2010 03:10 AM
Shell and Ingersoll-Rand Curb Business in Iran
The announcements by Ingersoll-Rand and Royal Dutch Shell come as the U.S. is pressing for new sanctions.

03/10/2010 09:15 PM
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Bomb Unit Allowed Into Gaza
Israel has allowed a United Nations bomb disposal unit into the Gaza Strip to defuse unexploded munitions left over from last year?s fighting.

03/11/2010 02:06 PM
Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Top Cleric, Dies at 81
Mr. Tantawi was leader of Al Azhar University, the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world.

03/10/2010 11:09 PM
Names of the Dead
The Department of Defense confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday.

03/10/2010 03:20 AM
Jerusalem Journal: Palestinian Family?s Eviction Stirs Old Ghosts in a Contested City
The removal of a Palestinian family has touched two nerves: the fate of East Jerusalem and the grievances of refugees from the 1948 war.

03/10/2010 03:50 AM
Israel Intends to Build Civilian Nuclear Plants
Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy.

03/10/2010 03:20 AM
World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Trial in Torture Deaths Begins
Iran?s judiciary last year charged 12 officials at the Kahrizak detention center in Tehran for involvement in the deaths of three protesters held there in July.

03/10/2010 12:50 AM
David Kimche, an Israeli Adept as Spy and Diplomat, Dies at 82
Mr. Kimche was involved in some of the country?s most delicate foreign escapades, including the Iran-contra affair.

03/09/2010 01:00 AM
News Analysis: Region Unimpressed by Balloting in Iraq
According to analysts and commentators, few people in the Middle East saw the Iraqi elections as a success for democracy.

03/09/2010 04:45 PM
The Diminishing Difficulty of Enriching Uranium
Making the leap from reactor-grade nuclear fuel to bomb-grade is like the rich getting richer: really fast.

03/08/2010 09:31 PM
World Briefing | MIDDLE EAST: Israel: Plans for 3rd Nuclear Reactor
Israel will announce plans this week to build a new nuclear reactor to diversify its energy sector, officials said Monday.

03/08/2010 09:30 PM
World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Budget With Cuts Is Approved by Parliament
Some lawmakers criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s 2010-11 budget, saying planned cuts in subsidies could set off runaway inflation.

03/09/2010 01:40 PM
In a Reversal, Sunnis Vote, to Retain a Voice in Iraq
Sunni Arabs largely sat out Iraqi national elections in 2005, but the need to protect their interests brought them out in droves on Sunday.

03/08/2010 12:26 AM
G.I.?s, New to Iraq, Hear the Election Explosions
Though unseasoned, the soldiers seem to have an understanding that the success ? or not ? of the elections could dictate how soon the Americans could go home.

03/07/2010 10:10 PM
Palestinians, Skeptical, Agree to Talks With Israel
The decision followed an agreement by the Arab League in Cairo to endorse indirect talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis, an achievement for American diplomacy.

03/08/2010 05:05 PM
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran
A Times analysis shows that the U.S. has awarded companies with more than $107 billion in contracts and loans while they were doing business with Iran.

03/06/2010 10:30 PM
Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli?s Work
In memory of a son killed in a terrorist attack, a Palestinian lawyer paid for an Arabic translation of the autobiography of Israel?s most prominent author and dove, Amos Oz.

03/06/2010 11:04 PM
Egyptian Leader?s Surgery in the News Is News Itself
The government and its supporters point to the public revelation about President Hosni Mubarak?s gallbladder operation as evidence that the state is trying to become more transparent.

03/08/2010 02:51 PM
In Basra, Iraqi Shiites Face Off Again
The fact that men on opposing sides in a war have become mere political rivals in the space of two years is a testament to the progress made by Iraq?s democracy.

03/08/2010 02:48 PM
Third Kurdish Movement, Gorran, May Tilt Iraq Region?s Course
Leaders of the two leading parties in Iraq?s Kurdish region are taking a challenger movement as a serious threat to their long-running hold on power.

03/11/2010 03:13 PM
Israel's Challenge to the U.S.
The Israeli government tests the Obama administration's policy of restraint.

03/12/2010 02:49 PM
Suspected Militant Worked at Nuclear Plants
Sharif Mobley, who is being held in Yemen as a suspect militant with an Al Qaeda-affiliated group, reportedly worked at the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear reactors in New Jersey.

03/12/2010 10:40 AM
Israelis Block Palestinians From Holy Site
On Friday, Israeli police prevented young Palestinian men from praying at a holy site in Jerusalem, and Israel's military imposed a general ban on travel by Palestinians from the West Bank into Israel.

03/11/2010 07:27 PM
American Held in Yemen After Shootout
A 26-year-old from suburban New Jersey is in custody in Yemen, after he was arrested in a sweep of suspected militants and reportedly killed a security guard in a failed escape attempt.

03/12/2010 08:13 AM
Israeli Ad Riffs on Dubai Assassination
To illustrate the slogan "We offer killer prices," an Israeli supermarket chain's new commercial will feature surveillance camera footage of actors dressed like the suspects accused of assassinating a Hamas official in Dubai in January.

03/07/2010 12:42 PM
Iran?s Ace (or Deuce): Its Oil Reserves
Tehran is playing its hand as if its untapped oil reserves give it a trump card. But the longer the nuclear stalemate drags on, the more that strategy is in doubt.

03/08/2010 02:30 PM
Book Review | 'Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town,' by Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.