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Violent clashes between guards and inmates at a Syrian jail have resulted in many deaths, human rights group say.
Iran says its stance on its nuclear programme is "not changed", hinting it is not ready to compromise over an EU offer.
At least five people have been killed in a still-unexplained explosion in northern Yemen, news reports say.
Lebanon is reported to be on the verge of announcing a new government, following months of political deadlock.
A Canadian court orders a review of a US army deserter's failed asylum bid, in a case that may affect scores of others.
Israel's defence minister orders the army to prepare to demolish the home of the Palestinian who killed three Israelis.
Aid workers say more than 20,000 people have made the dangerous trip to Yemen as fighting continues in Somalia.
Hamas suspends talks over a prisoner exchange deal due to involve the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
US and Iranian policy battles offer stark choices
Oil prices continue to climb with US light crude at a record closing price and London Brent above $146.
Four Iranians kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982 are still alive and being held in Israel, the Iranian embassy in Lebanon says.
A rocket from the Gaza Strip lands in southern Israel, the Israeli army says, putting more strain on a fragile truce.
Israel's vice premier calls for the home neighbourhood of Wednesday's bulldozer attacker to be cut off from Jerusalem.
The top US military officer says opening up a new front in the Middle East with a strike on Iran would be "stressful".
Islamic history shines forth in smaller Gulf emirate
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Iraq's challenge of reviving its oil industry
The US has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, the Iraqi foreign minister says.
Four Iraqi men say they are suing US military contractors for torturing them at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
Baghdad residents on improving life in the city
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Timmy S.
As one of those had to leave Haifa to the camps and then to more than one country later , i hope we relies soon that life is short and if do not help our selves it will be difficult to get it from others.
I still from time to time et with MAM and just listen to her storry about how they had to leave BY Force their houses and just before the earning season and the unbeleivable pain they faced to live without a house - slept under the sun in Jereco in summer while not alloud to leave some where else and then to Beirzait and their lucky days brought one of the worst cold snowy season and suddenly even the little shelter they had got torn from the cold wind, and...and.....but we still have the sweety solves and try to live and keep day by day ourselves and kids the memorries that we are from Haifa.