Full Coverage: Middle East

30.12.2007 Christian Salmon considers how George Bush's wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers, and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq.
From: Le Monde

27.12.2007 BAQUBA, Dec 27 (IPS) - The Iraqi government announcement that monthly food rations will be cut by half has left many Iraqis asking how they can survive.

20.12.2007 Congress' approval Wednesday of $70 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean the twin conflicts are now more costly to American taxpayers than the war in Vietnam.

20.12.2007 A recent report demonstrates the dismal choices of Iraqi refugees seeking asylum in neighboring countries.
From: Human Rights Watch

19.12.2007 A surprising dialogue between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Coptic Christians suggests a new way of working with Islamist parties, says William Dalrymple.
From New Statesman
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18.12.2007 The UN Refugee Agency is appealing to the British public to help displaced Iraqis following the displacement of people in northern Iraq as a result of shelling by Turkey.

18.12.2007 Maailmanpankin raportin mukaan Palestiina tulee olemaan pitkään riippuvainen ulkopuolisesta avusta. Jos Palestiina saa pyytämänsä avun ja Israel hellittää saartoaan, Palestiinan talous kääntyy kuitenkin vahvaan nousuun, raportti lupaa.

17.12.2007 Palestine will require "significant aid" over the next couple of years in order to avert a dangerous plunge in poverty levels, says a new report issued by an international development bank.

14.12.2007 Michael T. Klare explains why he feels the Iraq War is so closely tied to the United States' failure to effectively address climate change.

14.12.2007 The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has approved a press bill described by an international media watchdog as "restrictive."

11.12.2007 "Both the American and Iraqi people would benefit by ending the US military presence in Iraq," write Walter Cronkite and David Krieger.

07.12.2007 "Although improved security in parts of Iraq is encouraging some displaced Iraqis to return home, people are primarily returning because they have exhausted their resources and can no longer afford to live in refuge countries," says an organization working with refugees.

07.12.2007 YK:n Balin ilmastoneuvotteluissa jaettiin valtioita vuohiin ja lampaisiin. Hyvikseksi on nousemassa Kiina, jonka asennoituminen ilmastonmuutokseen on muuttunut selvästi viime vuosina. Moitteita keräävät erityisesti Malesia, Saudi Arabia, Japani ja Kanada.

07.12.2007 China was named Good Guy at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali on Friday, Malaysia was condemned to join Saudi Arabia, Japan and Canada in the Bad Guys group and Australia and India were told to make up their mind which category they wanted to be in.

06.12.2007 Major neoconservative analysts rely on three faulty assumptions of Pakistan's stability, and this could "spell disaster for Pakistan as well as for global security," explains Najum Mushtaq.

06.12.2007 Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, the lawyer of a Saudi Arabian rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison, is being charged for negative statements he made about the Saudi judiciary's handling of the case.

05.12.2007 Saudi Arabia was given the Fossil of the Day Award by NGOs at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.

05.12.2007 Israelin pidättämiä palestiinalaisia odottaa usein pahoinpitely ja suoranainen kidutus. Ihmisoikeusjärjestö B'Tselemin raportti listaa 73 tällaista tapausta. Suomessa vierailleen järjestön työntekijän mukaan dokumentoidut tapaukset ovat vasta jäävuoren huippu.

04.12.2007 Does Japan want to scrap the international agreement on climate change, the world's biggest climate action NGO network asked at the start of the second day of United Nations negotiations on a programme to tackle global warming.

04.12.2007 New evidence shows a growing tide of human rights abuses perpetrated by private armies in Iraq as the UK government spends millions of pounds on unregulated mercenaries.