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Future of women’s rights in Tunisia remains in doubt

Future of women’s rights in Tunisia remains in doubt

The Islamist Ennahda Party’s election victory in Tunisia has come to mean many different things. For outside observers wary of how the…
Syria’s Assad denies he ordered crackdown

Syria’s Assad denies he ordered crackdown

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied ordering a crackdown against anti-government protesters, telling ABC News that most people who died…
Israeli police: Arsonists attack West Bank mosque

Israeli police: Arsonists attack West Bank mosque

BRUKIN, West Bank — Israeli police and residents of a West Bank village say arsonists have set fire to a…
Blasts across Afghanistan target Shias, 59 dead

Blasts across Afghanistan target Shias, 59 dead

A suicide attack killed dozens of Shia Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in…
Iran says downed US drone was deep in its airspace

Iran says downed US drone was deep in its airspace

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says the downed U.S. drone was flying deep inside Iranian airspace when it was brought down…
What a change in Egypt’s leadership means for Israel

What a change in Egypt’s leadership means for Israel

JERUSALEM — Two decades ago, Naguib Mahfouz, the late, great Nobel literature laureate, speaking to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem…
Hizbullah chief in rare public address in Lebanon

Hizbullah chief in rare public address in Lebanon

BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon's Hizbullah made a rare public appearance at a Beirut rally on Tuesday to mark…
Syria ‘accepts’ observers as 34 bodies dumped

Syria ‘accepts’ observers as 34 bodies dumped

Syria said it conditionally accepts observers as part of an Arab plan, as a rights group reported militiamen loyal to…
Former Ivory Coast leader makes first ICC appearance

Former Ivory Coast leader makes first ICC appearance

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has appeared at the International Criminal Court, the first former…
Planning Afghanistan’s future beyond 2014

Planning Afghanistan’s future beyond 2014

BONN, Germany — Unable to persuade key neighbor Pakistan to reconsider its boycott of an international gathering on Afghanistan's future,…
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