| 2,000-Year-Old Christian Community in Iraq Gains a Spiritual First in Baghdad
Iraq?s shrinking Christian population now has a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, the first in Iraq in modern times.
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Renowned for its exhausting nonstop play and rough, often bloody, full contact, rugby has tapped into a deep well of Syrian Arab pride over the past three years.
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The Israeli economy has adjusted in surprising ways to the market power of the ultra-Orthodox community.
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When it comes to the protection of foreigners, Dubai?s criminal legal system remains perilous.
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Tensions between Iraq and Turkey over Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq threaten to overshadow other topics at a regional meeting that starts Thursday in Istanbul.
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The issue of succession is so delicate that Egypt?s government threatened to imprison an editor after his newspaper ran stories that the Egyptian president was ill.
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More than $100 billion has been devoted to rebuilding Iraq, but output in critical areas like water and electricity remain below U.S. goals.
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The bomber also wounded 19 people, including seven policemen who were severely injured and a woman and her baby, the authorities said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the early stage cancer was not life-threatening and would not distract from his work.
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
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A Syrian site that Israel bombed last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.
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