NYT > Middle East
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NYT > Middle East
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| 03/12/2010 02:22 PM |
| Opponents File Challenges as Maliki Is Said to Hold Early Edge in Iraq Vote |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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The Israeli government tests the Obama administration's policy of restraint. |
| 03/12/2010 02:49 PM |
| Suspected Militant Worked at Nuclear Plants |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared. |
