| 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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Iranian diplomats suggested that Iran might respond militarily if the Iraqi government failed to prevent militants from crossing in to Iran to carry out attacks.
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The U.S. troop ?surge? has slowed, but far from stopped, Iraq?s civil war, repeated visits to Baghdad neighborhoods show.
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The bombing was the first against Shiites in Baghdad since last week, when the cleric Moktada al-Sadr ordered his militia to halt all attacks.
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Syria?s air defenses repulsed Israeli warplanes that violated its airspace early Thursday, Syrian media reported.
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The re-emergence of Stalags, pornographic Hebrew books that mix Nazism, sex and violence, rekindles debate about cultural representations of the Holocaust.
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In a sign of the dire economic conditions for Palestinians, a dump is now a lifeline for scavengers.
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Under pressure to break Iraq?s political stalemate, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Wednesday in Najaf.
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Iran?s increasing economic and political isolation is helping leaders to hold back what they see as corrupting foreign influences.
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The section of Israel?s separation barrier in dispute had cut a West Bank village off from much of its farmland.
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The Lebanese Army said Sunday that it had taken control of a Palestinian refugee camp where troops had been battling Islamic militants for more than three months.
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