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  • Iran sentences another activist to death

    Iran has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday, bringing to at least 10 the number of those facing the death penalty for the unrest following June's disputed presidential election.

  • Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program
    Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program

    Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday, an acceleration of its nuclear program that was followed by a U.S. threat of a "significant regime of sanctions."

  • Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator
    Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator

    Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floors above the ground. The 15 people inside were trapped for 45 frightening minutes until rescuers managed to pry open the doors.

  • Palestinian force makes gains in West Bank
    Palestinian force makes gains in West Bank

    The security men brandished their weapons and ordered the suspicious car to halt, forcing the occupants to get out and put their hands in their air. The suspects were quickly handcuffed, frisked and made to kneel on the ground as the vehicle was swept for explosives.

  • Life imitates art in Oscar-nominated Israeli film
    Life imitates art in Oscar-nominated Israeli film

    There's a reason for the gritty feel of reality in "Ajami," an Oscar-nominated Israeli film about the lives of Arabs and Jews in the impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods of this Mediterranean city: Its amateur actors' lives eerily mirror their art.

  • Netanyahu's government tries to save settler house

    The Israeli government has stepped in to save a house built illegally by Jewish settlers in a volatile Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, complicating already troubled U.S. efforts to renew Mideast peacemaking.

  • Palestinian refugee agency warns of funding gap
    Palestinian refugee agency warns of funding gap

    The head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is warning of a looming funding shortfall and appealing for another $100 million.

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    Tel Aviv "savior" accused of enslaving women

    The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name — Savior.

  • Egypt arrests 3 top Muslim Brotherhood leaders
    Egypt arrests 3 top Muslim Brotherhood leaders

    The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures were arrested by police Monday in a dawn sweep targeting members of the nation's most powerful opposition group.

  • Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief urges new attacks
    Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief urges new attacks

    The deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen called for attacks on Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the region in a new audio message posted Monday on the Internet.

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