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Telegraph
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Iran has offered to arm neighbouring countries in the Middle East with sophisticated missiles for use in battle with the "Zionist regime" of Israel...
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Times Online
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THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology...
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BBC News
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A high-level US delegation is travelling to the Middle East, after confirming plans for massive arms deals for allies in the region.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates are due to meet Arab ministers at the Red Sea re..
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Yahoo News
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Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out. London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, hopes a campaign beginning on..
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CNN
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been appointed special envoy to the Middle East, a statement for the the Quartet of Mideast peace mediators has confirmed.
In a joint written statement Wednesday, the United States, Russia, the European Unio..
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FOX News
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The Vatican on Saturday bid farewell to Tony Blair (search) as British prime minister, wishing him well on what it said were his plans to work for Middle East peace and interreligious dialogue.
Blair held long talks with Pope Benedict XVI (search), wit..
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Independent
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How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want..
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BBC News
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The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says he is giving $10bn ($5bn) to set up an educational foundation in the Middle East.
The money is meant to improve the standard of education and research in the region, and aims to stimulate..
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Yahoo News
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Arabic television station Al Jazeera launches an English-speaking channel on Wednesday to report world news from a Middle East perspective and challenge the dominance of Western media...
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Foreign Policy
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Deploy More Than the Military. Recent elections in the Palestinian territories and Egypt have brought disconcerting results that suggest democratizing the Middle East may be more difficult than we imagined. That parties unappealing to us have done well sh..
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