Middle East Newswire
3 Feb 2012 at 11:51pm
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has full confidence in his Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, said the UN chief's spokesman Martin Nezirky.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:50pm
... out to be false. "He is a man of the regime, without any doubts," said Nadim Shehadi, an associate fellow of the Middle East Program at Chatham House, a London-based research group. "The Dara roots do not mean in any way that he's more likely to be ...
3 Feb 2012 at 11:49pm
The bloody uprising that has coursed through Syria has begun to upend daily life in Damascus, the stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad's government, reordering the lives of residents who complain of hardships as simple as getting to work every day and finding bread.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:49pm
Syrian government forces used a barrage of mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire in an assault that began Friday night in the central city of Homs, killing at least 200 people and wounding hundreds more, opposition activists reported on Saturday.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:49pm
DAMASCUS/UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 4 -- As clashes continue in Syria, the UN Security Council is scheduled to meet again Saturday morning to vote on a resolution on the country.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:49pm
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday embarked on an eight-day trip that involves stops in three oil-rich Middle East countries.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:48pm
Iran's supreme leader pledged Friday to aid any nation or group that challenges Israel and said any military strikes over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program would damage U.S. interests in the Middle East "10 times over." The nationally broadcast comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei staked out a hard line in apparent replies to suggestions that ... (more)
3 Feb 2012 at 11:44pm
... Iran. This is significant because the Arabs see the Persians as having had centuries-old designs to dominate the Middle East. Indeed, Iranian arms and trainers, transshipped to Hezbollah through Syria, have given the Persians their first outpost on ...
3 Feb 2012 at 11:33pm
Dubai, -- United Arab Emirates - Iran's supreme leader lashed out at the United States in a defiant speech Friday, vowing to retaliate against oil sanctions and threats of war over Iran's nuclear program, and asserting that any attack "would be 10 times worse for the interests of the United States" than it would be for Iran.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:29pm
More than 200 people were reported killed in Syria, hours before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet and likely vote on a draft resolution intended to pressure the government there to end its months-long crackdown on demonstrators, diplomats said.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:21pm
Dismissing economic sanctions that are beginning to bite, Iran's supreme leader said Friday that his country wouldn't bow to Western demands that it stop enriching uranium and warned that a war over its nuclear program would be "10 times more harmful" to the United States.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:21pm
Syrian forces killed at least 217 civilians, including women and children, in a "massacre" in the central city of Homs, a rights group said Saturday, ahead of a UN vote on the repression.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:16pm
DOHA: Play was called off at the Qatar Masters after just three hours of action as strong desert winds moved balls and made life difficult for players at Doha Golf Club on Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:13pm
... there is really no side that favors better relations with Israel in the ongoing street battles bloodying the Middle East, in places like Syria. When I asked a Syrian activist how people feel about Israel among the opposition to the dictatorship of ...
3 Feb 2012 at 11:11pm
... its opponents are "fading powers." Ayatollah Khamenei also said Israel has become "weakened and isolated" in the Middle East because of the revolutions -- he called them "Islamic awakenings" -- that have spread through the region. He suggested that ...
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NYT > Middle East
3 Feb 2012 at 11:25pm
Life is growing harder in the Syrian capital, President Bashar al-Assad’s stronghold, as residents complain about electricity rationing, shortages of food and gas, and soaring prices.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm
The reports could not be independently confirmed, but the attacks Friday night in Homs appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, opposition activists said.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:06pm
Farouk al-Shara, 74, vice president and loyal disciple of President Bashar al-Assad, would almost certainly become temporary president under an Arab League peace proposal.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:58pm
Five people were killed on the second day of clashes between protesters and the police as demonstrators questioned the ruling military council’s ability to run the country.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:57pm
The assessment came as Iran’s supreme leader lashed out at the United States, vowing to retaliate against oil sanctions and threats of military action.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:50pm
Gunmen stormed a bus in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Friday, kidnapping two American tourists and an Egyptian tour guide, Egyptian officials said.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm
The Islamist-led opposition won control of Parliament in a snap election, according to results on Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:06pm
Russia said it still had a “number of concerns” over a tentative plan by the United Nations Security Council aimed at stemming the bloodshed in Syria.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:50pm
Demonstrators in the Gaza Strip threw sticks and slippers at a vehicle carrying the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on Thursday, accusing him of bias, witnesses said.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:50pm
A senior official tried to make the point that the Iranian nuclear program is not a threat only to Israel but, as he put it, “a nightmare for the free world.”
3 Feb 2012 at 1:50pm
The legislation approved by the Banking Committee is aimed at forcing the expulsion of Iran’s banks from the global telecommunications network that nearly all banks rely on.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:40pm
Ambassadors worked Thursday on a revised Syria resolution, as negotiations focused on the conditions under which President Bashar al-Assad could be asked to step down.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:38pm
The seven workers were freed on Thursday, two days after they were kidnapped according to the organization.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:39pm
Egypt began three days of official mourning after at least 73 people were killed in a soccer brawl that underscored the interim government’s failure to re-establish order.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:00am
Iran invited young activists to Tehran for a conference on the “Islamic Awakening,” but the fact that no one from Syria’s opposition was invited disrupted the whole script.
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Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict
3 Feb 2012 at 11:45am
The Christian Science Monitor - Tensions between Israel and Iran are on the rise after a group of top Israeli leaders engaged in a round of saber-rattling on Thursday and Iranâs Supreme Leader answered on Friday with a pledge to "remove" Israel.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:51pm
 AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that time is running out for a Mideast peace deal and urged Israel to make goodwill gestures, including easing its blockade of Gaza, to help lure the Palestinians back to negotiations.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:21pm
Reuters - Anti-government protesters clashed with Bahraini police in Manama on Thursday, a rare protest in the capital as majority Shi'ite Muslims try to sustain pressure for more reforms ahead of the February 14 anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:44pm
 AP - New financial incentives designed to lure Israelis to poorer, outlying areas have been revised to exclude West Bank settlements, officials said Thursday.
2 Feb 2012 at 8:52am
AP - Senior members of Bahrain's ruling family have met with the head of an independent inquiry that called for reforms in the violence-wracked Gulf nation.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:21am
Reuters - Dozens of Palestinians threw shoes, sticks and stones at U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's convoy as it crossed into the Gaza Strip Thursday, protesting against what they saw as a slight against Palestinians jailed in Israel.
2 Feb 2012 at 5:46am
AP - Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming.
2 Feb 2012 at 1:03am
 AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest complaints about Palestinian "hate speech," after relatives of the killer of a Jewish settler family praised him in a phone call to the official Palestine TV, spotlight the intense animosity and mutual distrust that have blocked peace talks for years.
1 Feb 2012 at 5:32pm
 AP - It's usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather.
1 Feb 2012 at 1:43pm
AP - The special court investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Wednesday it will try four Hezbollah members indicted in the case in absentia.
1 Feb 2012 at 1:24pm
AP - Two Palestinian journalists said Wednesday they were detained and questioned by Palestinian security forces, one after mocking the Palestinian leadership and the other after reporting about alleged corruption at a Palestinian diplomatic mission.
1 Feb 2012 at 11:50am
AP - Germany has upgraded the Palestinian diplomatic representation in Berlin from a delegation to a mission headed by an ambassador, visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced Wednesday.
1 Feb 2012 at 9:14am
Reuters - Political winds from the Arab Spring are filling the sails of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, as it seeks a course out of international isolation to the forefront of the Palestinian national movement.
1 Feb 2012 at 8:03am
Reuters - Bahrain's economy is rebounding on the back of heavy government spending and support from its neighbors, but a full recovery may be out of reach if anti-government protests continue.
1 Feb 2012 at 2:18am
AP - Israeli authorities have indicted an Arab-Israeli couple on charges they imprisoned the man's daughter for years in their West Bank home and encouraged her to kill herself.
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3 Feb 2012 at 1:09pm
CAIRO - Three people were killed as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the deaths of 74 football fans on
3 Feb 2012 at 1:24pm
NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining n
3 Feb 2012 at 7:18pm
The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:17pm
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West Afric
3 Feb 2012 at 7:15pm
The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help
3 Feb 2012 at 5:16pm
China has long adhered to a foreign policy of non-interventionism, where it tries to appear neutral in disputes outside its borders. As the country becomes more of a global power, however, it is less
3 Feb 2012 at 5:16pm
Uganda has signed two oil production agreements with an Anglo-Irish firm, Tullow oil. The agreements allow the company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's
3 Feb 2012 at 5:16pm
The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed by reports of renewed atrocities committed against internally displaced Congolese. The UNHCR says it has reports of IDPs (internally displaced peop
3 Feb 2012 at 5:15pm
A coalition of human rights groups Thursday has appealed to the Obama administration to lead a cross-border aid operation into South Sudan to deliver much-needed food and medicine to the people of war
3 Feb 2012 at 5:10am
Andrew Garfield recently travelled to Ethiopia after being appointed as the new ambassador of a global charity for orphans.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:30am
New Zealand has comprehensively the Zimbabwe cricket teamin the first ODI held at Dunedin's University Oval today.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:10pm
Nelson Mandela's personal chef has launched a cookbook which features some of the former South African president's favourite dishes.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:16pm
The United Nations relief chief today visited areas in South Sudan hit by recent ethnic violence and met some of the victims of a vicious cycle of raids and reprisal attacks, describing what she had s
3 Feb 2012 at 5:48pm
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks at a news conference during the 61st UN General Assembly session September 19, 2006 at United Nations headquarters in New York City. (Stephen Chernin, Getty ...
3 Feb 2012 at 5:44pm
Download Some sports fans in Africa may be keeping an eye on Mathias Kiwanuka and the Super Bowl this weekend. But most will be following another sporting competition: The Africa Cup of Nations. ...
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