Full Coverage: Middle East

30.05.2008 Three Turkish tuna fishing vessels surrounded the Greenpeace ship "Arctic Sunrise" in the Cypriot Channel this morning, with crew from one vessel attacking the ship with lead weights.

26.05.2008 Britain and other European governments should break from the United States over the international embargo on Gaza, according to former US president Jimmy Carter.

23.05.2008 As a deadly new strain of Black Stem Rust devastates wheat harvests across Africa and Arabia, and threatens the staple food supply of a billion people from Egypt to Pakistan, the areas where potentially crop and life-saving remnant wild wheat relatives grow are only minimally protected.

19.05.2008 Controversial author and journalist Naomi Klein is poised to accuse UK companies over plans to plunder Iraqi oil, on the eve of Shell’s annual meeting.
* Klein's speech will be made at the launch of the paperback edition of her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Meeting details

06.05.2008 Intel will work with Sheikh Muhammed Foundation to expand its Teach programme in Arab countries. Apart from training 2 million teachers by 2011, Intel also hopes to educate and develop the talent of Arab youth in the region.

03.05.2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.