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Five Palestinian militants have been killed during Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip, reports say.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says that newly revealed peace talks with Syria might involve ”painful concessions”.
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Israeli soldiers fire on protesters at a Gaza border crossing, killing one and injuring others, say medics.
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A rights group urges Saudi judges to overturn a decision to drop charges against the employers of an abused maid.
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The Egyptian president meets Israel’s defence minister amid Egyptian efforts to broker a truce in Gaza with Hamas.
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Eleven Iraqi police recruits are shot dead near Mosul as US and Iraqi forces try to crack down on al-Qaeda.
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Arab mediators extend a deadline for agreement on two Qatari proposals to end the Lebanese crisis.
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US President George W Bush apologises over the shooting of a Koran by a US soldier, the White House confirms.
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Four Palestinians, one a boy of 13, are killed in separate Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians say.
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A Eurovision-style song contest could be held in North Africa and the Middle East, it is announced.
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The ruler of Kuwait names his nephew, Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah, as prime minister.
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Members of the Bahai faith say their entire leadership in Iran have been arrested by the authorities.
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The prosecutor at the trial of Tariq Aziz calls for a punishment which would ‘ease the hearts of widows’.
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A man accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp in World War II loses his final appeal to stay in the US.
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Lebanon’s rival leaders hold talks in Qatar aimed at pulling the country back from the brink of civil war.
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A leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq is sentenced to death for killing Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho.
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An American sniper is sent home from Iraq for using a copy of the Koran for target practice, the US military says.
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An Egyptian man is sentenced to 1,000 years in prison for defrauding hundreds of people out of about $52m.
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Saudi Arabia rejects a US appeal to raise oil production saying there is no new demand, US officials say.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accuses President Bush of bias towards Israel.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vows to end Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
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Results for the Kuwaiti election show strong gains for conservative Islamists, but women fail to win a seat.
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US President George W Bush is due in Saudi Arabia for talks expected to focus of oil prices and Iran.
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A message attributed to Osama Bin Laden calls for the continuation of ‘holy war against Israel’.
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Lebanon’s rival leaders are to meet in Qatar for talks aimed at pulling the country back from the brink of civil war.
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The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives rejects a bill to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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US President Bush says he was disappointed in ”flawed intelligence” on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
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At least 20 people are killed and 35 wounded in a suicide bombing at a funeral in the Iraqi capital, officials say.
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Kuwait announces three days of official mourning after the death of former Emir Sheikh Saad al-Sabah.
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Seven men are convicted in France for recruiting young people to fight against the US-led coalition in Iraq.
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Palestinian medics in Gaza say at least three militants and a civilian have been killed in Israeli incursions.
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US presidential hopeful Barack Obama interprets a speech by President Bush as an attack on his foreign policy.
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Arab League mediators broker a deal aimed at ending fighting in Lebanon that raised fears of a new civil war.
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Israel’s intelligence chief says Palestinian militants will soon double the range of rockets they fire from Gaza.
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US President George W Bush praises close US-Israeli ties on a visit to the country on its 60th anniversary.
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The Iraqi government agrees to a ceasefire with the Shia Mehdi Army to end fighting in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
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Lebanese troops deploy in Tripoli to end fierce fighting between Hezbollah allies and government supporters.
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The Iraqi Army launches a major operation in the northern city of Mosul against al-Qaeda and its allies.
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Lebanon’s army overturns two key government measures in an attempt to defuse its tensions with Hezbollah.
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The government is refused the right to challenge an order saying it should take an Iranian opposition group off a terror blacklist.
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Seventeen militants are killed in clashes over the last 24 hours with US and Iraqi forces, the US military says.
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Two female Japanese tourists are released in Yemen hours after they were seized by gunmen, officials say.
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Lebanon’s government says the seizure of most of western Beirut by Shia group Hezbollah is ”a bloody coup”.
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Israeli air strikes kill five Hamas members after a mortar attack from the Gaza Strip kills an Israeli civilian.
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Ehud Olmert is suspected of illicitly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars before becoming PM.
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A former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in Iraq, the US says.
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The US military in Iraq says a man detained in Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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At least one person is killed in a funeral procession in West Beirut, as Hezbollah militants withdraw from the streets.
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Israel marks 60 years since its creation in 1948, a date the Palestinians remember as ”the Catastrophe”.
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The body of a woman killed during clashes in the Gaza Strip is found at her home, Palestinian medics say.
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