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Dig for victory

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 5 00:43

Archaeology and the struggle for Jerusalem...


No Gaza judgement by UN chief Ban

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 21:36

The head of the UN says it is not yet possible to say if Israel and the Palestinians are adequately probing the Gaza conflict....


Iraq election campaigning delayed

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 17:41

Campaigning for Iraq's elections is delayed as a row erupts over a ban on candidates with alleged links to the Baath party....


Israel 'vengeful' on Rabin killer

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 13:37

The killer of ex-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin says the state is keeping him in solitary confinement out of vengeance....


Yemeni rebels 'heavily shelled'

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 12:56

Houthi rebels suffer casualties during an air and artillery bombardment on their positions in northern Yemen....


Fatah meets rivals Hamas in Gaza

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 12:15

An senior official from the Palestinian Fatah movement meets a Hamas leader in Gaza for the first time in three years....


Iran and Iraq exchange war dead

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 10:54

Iran and Iraq exchange bodies of soldiers killed in the eight-year war they fought in the 1980s....


Killers of Lebanese singer appeal

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 09:46

Two men sentenced to death for killing a Lebanese singer appeal against their convictions in an Egyptian court....


China warning over Iran sanctions

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 08:39

China says talks of fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme could derail diplomatic efforts....


Libya 'must halt web crackdown'

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 06:34

Human Rights Watch urges Libya to stop a web crackdown which has blocked opposition sites and the video-sharing site YouTube....


Australia blocks Iran shipments

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 4 02:44

Australia blocks three shipments to Iran over fears they could have been for Tehran's nuclear programme, says PM Kevin Rudd....


Clinton vetoes Iran prisoner swap

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 3 18:35

The US rejects Iran's suggestion of swapping Iranians jailed in the US for three American hikers currently held in Iran. ...


West wary over Iran uranium offer

BBC News | Middle East | World Edition - Feb 3 13:57

Western powers react warily after Iran says it will accept a deal to swap its enriched uranium for processed nuclear fuel....



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Morning Brief: Yanukovych Wins Ukraine Election

FP Passport - Feb 8 09:03

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Audi's Green Police Super Bowl Ad: Truth in Advertising? Will it Move Units?

Hit & Run - Feb 8 08:44

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Reason Morning Links: Weather Disasters, Technological Disasters, Political Disasters

Hit & Run - Feb 8 08:02

• Snow shuts down D.C. • Uncertainty after a deadly explosion in Connecticut: "They're calling the hospitals, hospitals tell them to call...


Recently at Reason.tv: Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson's Vision For a Truly Free America

Hit & Run - Feb 8 07:58

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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Truth About Gays in the Military

Hit & Run - Feb 8 07:00

All recent experience argues that the American military would adapt fine to accepting gays. But as Steve Chapman writes, when it comes to actual real-world evidence, supporters of th...


Israeli Ayatollahs Forbid Erotic Poetry in Classroom

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 8 05:21

Israel’s education ministry feels it must protect the purity of Israeli youth by preventing it from reading some of the finest Israeli erotic poetry in the classroom.  The result is a furious and hilarious rejoinder by some of Israel’s finest poets: <block...


Palin: ‘My Plan is Quite Simple’

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 8 04:55

A high school friend of my wife’s tells the following hilarious story on her Facebook page. She was sitting in her living room watching Sarah Palin’s Tea Party speech and when the latter got to the part of her speech where she said: “My plan is quite simple.” The high school friend’s 85 year-old mother said, witho...


Wiesel Nobel Laureate Ad Urges Iran Sanctions

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 7 21:05

Elie Wiesel and usual pro-Israel suspects, Dershowitz and Jon Voight (partially obscured in background) protest Ahmadinejad UN speech (AP) <...


That Tim Tebow Anti-Abortion Ad Is Even Less Interesting Than Florida's Kicking Cincinnati's Ass in The Sugar Bowl

Hit & Run - Feb 7 15:56

Here's the controversial Tim Tebow Focus on the Family commercial that will run during the big game today: ...


Wehrkunde guest list bingo

A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros - Feb 7 12:52

It’s Wehrkunde time! The annual festival of military-industrial thinkery, held in Munich for NATO bigwigs of all kinds, is coming around again. Laura Rozen notes that a surprising number of John McCain’s campaign...


Developing a Saudi Culture of Responsibility

Crossroads Arabia - Feb 7 12:22

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Stopping By Sarah Palin's Speech on a Snowy Weekend...

Hit & Run - Feb 7 11:45

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A Saudi Handshake

Crossroads Arabia - Feb 7 10:33

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The last man in East Germany

A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros - Feb 7 09:22

What must it have been like to be a Stasi case officer in the autumn of 1989? What did they do? The answer, in this fascinating piece in Der Spiegel, was that they kept going to the office. In fact, they kept on going about their s...


Israeli Extremists Shout ‘Hitler Was Right’

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 7 05:21

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