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December 5, 2010

A change in tactics?
Al Qaeda planned to kill Saudi government officials with poisoned gifts
09:00 GMT
Al Qaeda militants now in detention planned to kill Saudi government and security officials and media workers by sending poisoned gifts to their offices
Iran bought 19 advanced missiles from North Korea, a diplomatic cable says. The North displayed what some experts say are the same kind of missiles in an October parade
Iran will never use force against its Muslim neighbours
06:26 GMT
Iran will never use force against its Muslim neighbours, its foreign minister told a conference on Middle East security on Saturday

December 3, 2010

December 2, 2010: Qatar becomes the first Arab, Middle Eastern or Muslim country to be awarded the right to stage football's World Cup
Russia, Qatar win bids to host Fifa World Cup 2018, 2022
18:04 GMT
Qatar has shrugged off fears of searing summer heat to become the first Arab, Middle Eastern or Muslim country to be awarded the right to stage football's World Cup.

December 2, 2010

Egyptian opposition activists shout slogans during a protest in front the Syndicate of Journalists in downtown Cairo on November 29, 2010
Egyptian poll results in question
12:18 GMT
The ruling party's overwhelming victory in the first phase of Egypt's parliamentary elections came as a surprise to many analysts.
Speaking at a session on "Principles of Islamic jurisprudence of woman participation in national development," Al Gamdi pointed out that there is nothing in Islam preventing women from driving cars and go unveiled without excessive makeup
Prominent Cleric: Women can drive, wear veil
09:44 GMT
Shaikh Ahmad Al Gamdi, head of the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) branch in the holy city of Makkah, said women should not be required to cover their faces and th

December 1, 2010

Yemeni security is seen along a main thoroughfare in the port city of Aden, on the eastern approach to the Red Sea, on November 23, 2010,
Yemen Minister: Foreign military action counter-productive
13:52 GMT
Yemen’s Minister of Endowment, Hamoud Al-Hitar said that Yemen will not be another Afghanistan or a shelter for terrorists warning that “an external intervention will only unify Yemenis
""He claimed to me that he shot his wife when she told him he is not a man" says policeman.
Emirati soldier shoots wife in buttock with unlicensed gun. Forgiveness follows in court.
09:20 GMT
The Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday dropped the charges of attempted murder after the 53-year-old Emirati soldier who reconciled with his 38-year-old Emirati wife after she dropped her case
Burj Khalifa, the world tallest tower, is silhouetted at sunset in Dubai, on November 30, 2010.
Dubai: We will not become risk averse
06:19 GMT
Dubai will not become risk averse in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, according to the head of the developer responsible for many of the emirate's high-profile projects

November 30, 2010

President Obama... no longer invincible.
Has America fallen out of love with Obama?
12:20 GMT
There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their political stripes, rallied round their president...
ISRAEL, RAMON AIRFORCE BASE : An Israeli airforce F-16I fighter plane takes off at the Ramon Air Force Base, in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on November 19, 2008
Israel could strike Iran without US help: leaked cable
08:22 GMT
The United States has told France that Israel could strike Iran without US military support but the operation might not be successful, according to a leaked document published on Sunday.

November 29, 2010

Gaddafi did not bring his famed all-women guard unit with him to New York
Gaddafi never without 'voluptuous' nurse: Wikileaks
12:44 GMT
Gaddafi’s eccentric and unpredictable personality is described with relish in the State Department cable
View of the WikiLeaks homepage taken in Washington on November 28, 2010. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks unleashed a flood of US cables detailing shocking diplomatic episodes, from a nuclear standoff with Pakistan to Arab leaders urging a strike on Iran.
Wikileaks: US Diplomats off the record, secrets revealed.
09:37 GMT
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released a massive trove of leaked US diplomatic cables detailing candid opinions of various world leaders, repeated calls for a US attack on Iran...
EGYPT, Cairo : An Egyptian man checks for the name of his wife at the entrance of a polling station in Cairo on November 28, 2010, as polls opened across Egypt for a parliamentary election expected to strengthen the ruling party's grip in the most populous Arab nation but marred by a crackdown on the Islamist opposition.
Voting irregularities at Helwan, Hadayek El-Kobba polls in Eqypt
07:00 GMT
Daily News Egypt, together with an election monitor from the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), was also prevented from entering a polling station

November 28, 2010

Israel's security cabinet approved plans on Wednesday to withdraw troops from part of an occupied Lebanese village of Ghajar
Is Israel "Shrinking"?
13:00 GMT
Israel's security cabinet approved plans on Wednesday to withdraw troops from part of an occupied Lebanese village of Ghajar
EGYPTE, MANSURA : An Egyptian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the Nile delta city of Mansura, 120 kms north of Cairo, 26 March 2007. Over 35 million Egyptians are expected to participate in a referendum on controversial constitutional changes which the regime says promotes democracy but the opposition charges curb basic freedoms.
Egypt goes to the polls
11:43 GMT
Egyptians will cast their votes today to elect a new legislature amid fears that the elections will be marred by violence and vote buying.