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Legislators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shia leader, have shouted down a parliamentary debate over a security pact that would keep US troops in Iraq for three more years.
19/11/2008
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Iraq's prime minister has defended a pact to keep US forces in his country until the end 2011.
19/11/2008
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An Indian warship in the Gulf of Aden has fought a battle with Somali pirates just hours after three vessels were hijacked off the coast of Somalia.
19/11/2008
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Israel has closed its crossings into the Gaza Strip, a day after it allowed trucks carrying aid into the besieged coastal territory.
18/11/2008
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Iran has picked an ally of the country's president to be the next interior minister.
18/11/2008
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Iraq and the US have signed a security accord requiring Washington to withdraw its forces by the end of 2011.
18/11/2008
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The Israelis have temporarily opened the Karem Abu Salem border crossing with Gaza to allow a limited supply of humanitarian aid to reach the territory.
17/11/2008
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Iraq's cabinet has approved a security pact which allows about 150,000 US troops to remain in the country for another three years, a government spokesman has confirmed.
16/11/2008
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed a $7.6 billion loan to stave off Pakistan's debt repayment crisis, a senior Pakistani finance official has said.
15/11/2008
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India's first unmanned lunar probe has landed successfully on the moon, a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.
15/11/2008
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The United Nations is to suspend its food distribution effort to the Gaza Strip after Israel said it would not allow emergency supplies into the Palestinian territory, a UN spokesman has said.
13/11/2008
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An Iranian diplomat has been kidnapped by armed men in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police have said.
13/11/2008
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Iran has said the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries should take action to stabilise oil prices.
12/11/2008
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Iran has said it test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface missile that has a range of close to 2,000km, similar to the existing Shahab-3.
12/11/2008
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Israel has partially renewed fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip, ending a week-long suspension of supplies that led to blackouts in the homes of Palestinian families.
11/11/2008
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