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Iran’s Ahmadinejad to challenge ally’s ban from election

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Iran bars candidates from presidential election

22 May

DUBAI — The Iranian authorities barred two potentially powerful and disruptive candidates from running in next month’s presidential election yesterday (May 21), ensuring a...

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Israel returns fire to Syria after troops shot at

21 May

JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier today (May 21) in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said.

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Saudi women teachers demand full-time jobs

20 May

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — About 30 Saudi women teachers have demonstrated outside the kingdom’s Education Ministry, demanding full time jobs.

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Iran hints it will bar ex-President from running again

20 May

DUBAI — Iran’s electoral watchdog said today (May 20) it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year...

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Israel warns Russia on Syria arms sales

19 May

JERUSALEM — Israel said on Saturday that advanced weapons supplied by Russia to war-torn Syria could end up in the wrong hands and be used against the Jewish state.

Assad: Syria transition is internal matter

19 May

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview yesterday (May 18) he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere...

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Egyptian police block Gaza border

19 May

CAIRO — Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again yesterday (May 18), stranding hundreds...

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Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women’s law

18 May

KABUL - Afghanistan’s parliament failed to pass a law today (May 18) banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the conservative Muslim...