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Saudi Arabia’s top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.The 79-year-old Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan said Thursday that satellite channels cause...
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Iraq’s prime minister has told a London newspaper that the 4,100 British troops in southern Iraq are no longer necessary to provide security.
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Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car...
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AP, Baghdad
Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car...
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Iraq’s oil minister will meet Monday in London with representatives of international oil companies for the first round of bidding for new contracts in the country...
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AP, Tehran
Merchants in Tehran’s main market have closed their shops in protest of a new sales tax despite the government’s announcement that it would suspend the...
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AP, Baghdad
Dirndl-clad waitresses deliver frothy beers, the brass band has the oom-pah music in full drive and there are sausages on the grill.
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AP, Baghdad
A car bomb exploded Sunday in a commercial street of southwestern Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding nine others, police said.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraqi police say a car bomb has exploded in southwestern Baghdad, killing two civilians.
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AP, Jerusalem
Two Arab-owned apartments were set ablaze in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs, police said Saturday.
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AP, Baghdad
Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure...
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AP, Cairo
America’s opponents in the Middle East are gloating over the financial meltdown in the United States, painting it as divine retribution for past misdeeds against...
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AP, Baghdad
An upswing in insurgent attacks against Christians in Mosul has forced 500 families to flee in the last week and seek shelter at churches, monasteries and...
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AP, Jerusalem
Police say two Arab-owned apartments were torched in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs.
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AP, Baghdad
A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists’ group said Saturday it was the 136th killing...
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AP, Alexandria
A federal judge rejected arguments Friday from a former civilian contractor in Iraq who said his sentence for possessing child pornography should be lighter to more...
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AP, Jerusalem
The head of an Israeli hospital where an Iranian boy is being treated for a brain tumor said Friday he hoped the gesture will help improve understanding between the...
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AP, Baghdad
Iraqi police say eight people have been killed after a car bomb struck a market in a Shiite enclave in southwestern Baghdad.
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AP, San'a
About 100 people are missing and feared drowned off the shores of Yemen after their smugglers forced them overboard in the treacherous Gulf of Aden waters, Yemeni...
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AP, Amman
Two American journalists who went missing during a vacation in Lebanon were quoted Friday as saying they were “kidnapped” by their taxi driver and taken...
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AP, Baghdad
Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr marched through eastern Baghdad on Friday to mourn the killing of a Sadrist lawmaker and hear a statement from...
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AP, Cairo
A new al-Qaida video identifies the Saudi purportedly behind a suicide bombing at the Danish Embassy in Pakistan, and he is shown warning in a taped last testament that...
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AP, Riyadh
When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate....
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AP, Brussels
The European Union’s highest court on Wednesday overturned a 2001 decision by EU governments to freeze the assets of a Saudi businessman and a Sweden-based...
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AP, Cairo
Cairo’s luxury Grand Hyatt hotel is serving alcohol again after a compromise was reached between the international chain and the hotel’s Saudi owner who...
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AP, Riyadh
When Ruwaida al-Habis’ father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers to get them...
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AP, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for three years claims U.S. guards recently threatened to kill him and took his legal papers, lawyers for the...
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AP, Beirut
A sniper assassinated a senior Syrian general close to President Bashar Assad, according to reports Monday in a Saudi paper and Web sites for a Syrian opposition figure...
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AP, Mclean
The director of a Saudi-funded Islamic school in northern Virginia accused of promoting religious intolerance has been convicted of failing to report suspected child...
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AP, London
A controversial decision by Britain’s anti-fraud agency to halt an inquiry into whether one of the world’s largest arms dealers offered bribes in exchange...
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AP, Cairo
An al-Qaida commander who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan has posted a Web video urging Muslims to kill the Saudi king for leading an interfaith conference.
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AP, Bern
Swiss authorities have widened a corruption investigation linked to arms deals by the British aerospace company BAE Systems PLC, prosecutors said.Federal prosecutors...
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AP, Riyadh
Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or...
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AP, Riyadh
Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or...
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AP, Riyadh
Saudi authorities have arrested 701 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants this year, including some who were plotting attacks against the kingdom’s oil and economic...
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AP, Riyadh
Saudi officials say authorities have arrested hundreds of suspected al-Qaida-linked militants this year. Some of those arrested are suspected of plotting attacks...
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AP, Jiddah
Saudi Arabia’s oil minister says the kingdom is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, but he cited no specific production increase.The kingdom will...
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AP, Jiddah
King Abdullah has blamed soaring oil prices on speculators, high fuel taxes in consuming countries and increased consumption in developing countries.Abdullah said the...
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AP, Jiddah
King Abdullah has officially opened a high-level oil summit in Saudi Arabia amid a standoff between the kingdom and the U.S. over who’s to blame for skyrocketing...
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AP, Jiddah
The U.S. energy secretary said Saturday that insufficient oil production, not financial speculation, was driving soaring crude prices.Secretary Samuel Bodman’s...
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A Saudi trader reacts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. A Saudi official says the oil-rich Kingdom is facing no liquidity problem and rules out negative effects on its economy from the global credit crisis. Like elsewhere in the Middle...
