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Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora virtuoso in a family renown for its mastery of the traditional West African instrument.

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An investigation into allegations of corruption against the Israeli PM is being widened to look at whether he committed fraud.
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Political leaders in Lebanon agree on the make-up of a national unity government after six weeks of talks.
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Iran will target Israel and 32 US bases in the Gulf if the country is attacked, says an aide to Iran’s supreme leader.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders express their optimism for peace at a summit of EU and Mediterranean leaders in Paris.
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A planned prisoner exchange between Israel and Hezbollah will take place on Wednesday, Israeli officials say.
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The MoD refers an allegation that British soldiers sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Iraqi boy to the Royal Military Police.
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Vital reconstruction in Gaza is stalled because Israel is not allowing in enough supplies, the UN’s Middle East envoy warns.
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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Baghdad for talks, says Iraq and Turkey will join forces to fight Kurdish rebels.
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The bodies of two US soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year have been found, the Pentagon confirms.
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Egypt temporarily re-opens its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow stranded people to cross.
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Four Iraqi men say they are suing US military contractors for torturing them at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
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Israeli and Syrian negotiators are to meet for a third round of indirect peace negotiations, mediated by Turkey.
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Israel rejects Palestinian journalist’s allegations of harsh treatment by security officials at West Bank border.
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The expected transfer of an Iraqi province to local security control on Monday is postponed without explanation from US-led forces.
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The West Bank is facing grave water shortages partly because of ”discriminatory” Israeli policies, an Israeli rights group says.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shares an historic handshake with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak.
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Iraq begins the process of opening up its oil industry to foreign investment to help boost its production.
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A Swiss court finds the brother of the UAE ruler guilty of beating a US citizen with a belt in a Geneva hotel bar.
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The US military in Iraq says a militant killed on Tuesday has been positively identified as the leader of al-Qaeda in Mosul.
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The US Senate approves $162bn to pay for another year of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Conservative Anglican leaders are to create a new global alliance to combat liberal trends in the Church.
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An explosion in a block of flats in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli kills at least two people, officials say.
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A day after they increased the price of bread by a third, bakers in Lebanon agree to reduce prices.
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Israel reopens a key commercial crossing point to the Gaza Strip because of a lull in cross-border attacks.
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At least 38 people die in two bombings in Iraq – including a suicide attack on a tribal council meeting in Anbar province.
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A leading Iraqi judge is ambushed and shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad as he drives home from work.
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Israel’s cabinet backs a controversial prisoner swap with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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Officials from more than 40 countries meet in Berlin and pledge $242m for the Palestinian police and justice system.
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An Iranian opposition organisation is pushing to be legalised across the EU after being taken off the UK’s list of alleged terrorist groups.
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A bomb explodes at a local council office in Baghdad, killing 10 people, including four American nationals.
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Israel says a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern town of Sderot is a ”gross violation” of a six-day-old truce.
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UN nuclear watchdog inspectors reportedly examine an alleged nuclear site in Syria which was bombed by Israel last year.
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Iraqi and US security forces fan out in the southern Iraqi city of Amara to drive out Shia militias and criminal gangs.
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Lebanese security sources say four people have died in a second day of sectarian clashes in Tripoli, bringing the death toll to eight.
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The US military says four militants have been killed during operations against the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
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Jewish groups from around the world meet in London to highlight the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
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Fifteen people are killed by a female suicide bomber outside a government building in the northern Iraqi city of Baquba.
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Israel’s Labour party is to support a move to dissolve parliament which could bring down scandal-hit PM Ehud Olmert’s government.
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Israel and Hamas agree a truce starting this Thursday, Palestinian officials tell the BBC after Egyptian-brokered talks.
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The number of refugees worldwide grows to 11.4 million, the UN says, with another 26 million internally displaced.
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Ten Egyptian paramilitary police conscripts are charged with beating a colleague to death.
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Israel’s Ehud Olmert and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad will come face to face next month in Paris, says France’s foreign minister.
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A draft law is put forward in the Gulf state of Qatar that will for the first time protect the rights of domestic workers.
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Israeli police arrest two Jewish settlers over an apparent assault of Palestinians that was captured on film.
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A car bomb at a busy bus stop in northern Baghdad kills 51 people and leaves another 75 wounded, say police.
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Fierce fighting breaks out between Lebanese government supporters and opposition supporters in the eastern Bekaa.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah might be close to releasing two captured Israeli soldiers, the father of one soldier has said.
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Iraqi troops and police backed by US forces deploy to Amara city in a fresh clampdown on Shia gunmen, officials say.
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British nationals in the United Arab Emirates have been warned there is now a high risk of a terror attack there.
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The brother of the UAE ruler will face trial on Thursday charged with assaulting a US citizen in a bar in Geneva.
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Officials on both sides hail progress in indirect peace talks between Syrian and Israeli envoys in Turkey.
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Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki says talks with the US on allowing its forces to remain in Iraq have ”reached an impasse”.
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Police in Iran begin a fresh campaign against Western-style clothing and hairstyles among women and men.
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George W Bush begins a two-day visit to the UK as part of his final European tour before he leaves office.
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Israel’s military says it has killed three Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip as they were trying to plant a bomb near the border.
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Egypt launches an investigation into how secondary school final exam papers were leaked to students.
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A military court in Jordan jails three members of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas for plotting terrorism.
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Israel’s defence minister warns Ehud Olmert he will support moves to dissolve parliament if he does not stand aside.
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The Libyan leader suggests Barack Obama’s support for Israel stems from an ”inferiority complex” over his African origins.
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An Iranian boy aged 17 has been hanged, in violation of UN charters and official pledges not to execute minors.
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A powerful blast destroys a Hamas commander’s house in northern Gaza, killing seven people including a baby girl.
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Footage taken with a camera handed out by a human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians.
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The head of Saddam Hussein’s tribe, Sheikh Ali al-Nida, is killed in a car bomb near the town of Tikrit, Iraq police say.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert authorises his Kadima party to hold leadership elections that could see him replaced.
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A Moroccan court jails 29 men for forming a terror group with intent to carry out attacks and recruiting Iraq fighters.
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Iraq’s antiquities department takes delivery of 11 ancient ceremonial seals looted after the US-led invasion in 2003.
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An invitation from a Muslim AM to a ”confidential” meeting with the Israeli ambassador prompts the assembly’s Presiding Officer to call for the event to be boycotted.
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A BBC investigation estimates that about $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq.
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Authorities in Sudan launch an investigation into what caused a plane to burst into flames in Khartoum.
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At least five people die when a roadside bomb explodes near two minibuses in a mainly Shia neighbourhood in Baghdad.
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A young Palestinian girl is killed by tank fire in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces target militants firing rockets over the border.
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A top Israeli official says Israel will attack Iran if it continues with its alleged nuclear arms programme.
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A suicide bomb – the biggest in months in the Iraqi capital – kills at least 15 people near the home of a senior police general.
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Officials in Karbala say the mausoleum of Shia Islam’s most revered leader is threatened with structural damage.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, and four other suspects go on trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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Security forces in Algeria say six soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack by suspected Islamist militants.
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Israeli forces kill a militant during a raid in Gaza, as the Israeli PM warns of a major military campaign in the strip.
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Unrest over the rising cost of living turns lethal in Tunisia and challenges the authorities in India and Malaysia.
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A US marine is acquitted of charges that he helped cover up the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.
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The US military reports capturing 32 suspected al-Qaeda in members Baghdad and other parts of Iraq.
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A US marine is removed from duty over claims he distributed coins with biblical verses to citizens in Iraq.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon praises progress in Iraq at a UN forum, while Iraq’s PM calls for debt relief from Arab states.
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The head of the CIA says al-Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and on the defensive elsewhere.
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Lebanon’s parliament agrees to nominate incumbent Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to lead a new government.
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A gunman kills at least eight people after opening fire at a mosque in Yemen, officials say.
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Four Coptic Christians are shot dead in broad daylight at a jewellery shop in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
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The king of Bahrain appoints aJewish female legislator as the country’s new envoy to the United States.
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Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu calls the Israeli blockade of Gaza an ”abomination” during a visit.
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The party of scandal-hit Israeli PM Ehud Olmert should prepare for possible polls, his foreign minister says.
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Amnesty International says about 18,000 people are held in jail in Egypt without charges or trials.
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Cleaners and businesses work to reopen in the Lebanese capital’s downtown area after an opposition sit-in.
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Israeli fighter planes are scrambled to intercept a jet carrying former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Lebanese leaders agree on steps to end political deadlock that led to the worst violence since the civil war.
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Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad says a conference has raised $1.4bn of new investments in Palestinian areas.
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Police in Israel question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a second time in an ongoing corruption investigation.
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A ship carrying sugar, an aid donation to Somalia, is released after being seized by pirates last week.
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