Full Coverage: Middle East

21.06.2008 Londoners will soon be able to get off the tube at King’s Cross and walk into a Palestinian refugee camp.

17.06.2008 Take a Taxi to the Dark Side. It’s a grim documentary, and you may think you know already that you oppose the use of torture on prisoners on the “war on terror” and that there’s therefore no need to see a film about it. But the more light shone on the political double-talk that led us into this moral dead-end, the better.

15.06.2008 States that participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq should take steps to alleviate the suffering of the 4.7 million people displaced by the conflict and must stop sending people back as the country is unsafe, says Amnesty International.

10.06.2008 Qatar Petroleum is to jointly invest up to $70m with the UK/Dutch Shell Group in researching carbon dioxide storage projects in the Middle East, including the development of potential sites in the gas-rich state.

04.06.2008 Israel's conflict with the Palestinians and the occupation of captured territory has undermined its economic growth and pushed up defence expenditure by at least £11 billion in the last 20 years, according to an Israeli think-tank report.