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Israel's prime minister-designate has called for increased efforts towards reaching a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
06/10/2008
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Ahmed Abul Gheit, Egypt's foreign minister, has arrived in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad for a one-day surprise visit.
06/10/2008
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Gulf states' stock markets have dropped sharply due to uncertainty surrounding the current global financial crisis.
05/10/2008
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Two US military Blackhawk helicopters have crashed over the Iraqi capital, the military says.
05/10/2008
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Hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are keeping many of the Palestinian territory's 1.5 million impoverished residents supplied with food and fuel.
04/10/2008
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Iraq's three-member presidency council has approved a long-delayed provincial election law, a government official has said.
03/10/2008
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At least 20 people have been killed and at least 30 injured in two suicide bomb attacks close to Shia mosques in Baghdad, officials say.
02/10/2008
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Somali fighters are reportedly urging pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and military hardware to destroy the cargo and the vessel if they are not paid ransom.
02/10/2008
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Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean has spun out of control in recent months, threatening to disrupt international maritime trade and further isolating an already agonising country.
02/10/2008
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The Iraqi government is to take responsibility for paying members of the country's Awakening councils, Sunni groups who had allied with US forces to fight al-Qaeda.
01/10/2008
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Negotiations are taking place by phone to free a Ukrainian ship hijacked by Somali pirates with 33 tanks and other military hardware abroad, a maritime official has said.
01/10/2008
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Zimbabwe's president and opposition leader have failed to break an impasse on the formation of the new cabinet in order to finalise a power-sharing agreement.
01/10/2008
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US helicopters and warships are circling a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with 33 Soviet-designed tanks and other weapons that officials fear could wind up in the hands of al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia, if the pirates are allowed to escap...
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A group of European and Egyptian hostages kidnapped in Egypt's Western Desert 10 days ago have arrived in Egypt aboard a military aircraft following their rescue.
29/09/2008
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Ehud Olmert, Israel's outgoing prime minister, has said that Israel will have to leave much of east Jerusalem and allow Palestinians to form a state equal in size to the area of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
29/09/2008
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