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Hizbollah’s Syria role fuels sectarianism

Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Saleh Sabagh, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair ©AP

Fears grow that Sunni-Shia violence could spread in Lebanon

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Tunisia
ansar al-ansari supporter in tunisia ©Getty
Tunisia has finally turned up the heat on the Salafis.
– Roula Khalaf
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Spat over Saudi coronavirus patent claims

Dutch and UK institutions deny hindering diagnosis

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ©AFP MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & SOCIETY 4:34pm

Algeria gets jitters over absent president

Ailing Bouteflika’s failure to return from France causing crisis

A man places his hand on his mouth as he runs though burning tyres during an anti-government protest against power cuts in Lahore, Pakistan ©Reuters From ASIA-PACIFIC 10:04am

Pakistan seeks $4bn-$5bn Saudi loan

Sharif looks to avert a balance of payments crisis

Global Insight May 23, 2013

Peace talks work more for US than Syria

Geneva meeting delays harder choices Obama is not keen to make

May 23, 2013

Friends of Syria demands fighters withdraw

Alliance warns of ‘severe consequences’ of chemical weapon use

Egyptian satrist shrugs off death threats

Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef outside a theatre in Cairo on January 22, 2013. ©AFP

A comedy show has become a runaway success with its biting satire of the government.

Misurata’s brigades exert pressure on Libya

A Libyan flag flies on Tripoli Street in Misurata ©AFP

The wartime experiences of Misurata still cast a destabilising shadow over the country’s politics.

GULF May 22, 2013

Bahrain opposition withdraws from talks

Protest at security forces’ raid on home of senior cleric

Egyptian police and soldiers who were seized in Sinai by kidnappers ©Getty MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & SOCIETY May 22, 2013

Egyptian security force staff freed

Seven men released unharmed by suspected Islamic militants in Sinai

May 22, 2013

DIFC brings in property veteran

Brett Schafer appointed chief executive of DIFC Properties

Abu Dhabi , Rocco Forte Hotel ©Alamy May 22, 2013

How the hotel tide turned for Abu Dhabi

Delays to tourist developments have left a problem of oversupply

May 22, 2013

Labour unrest threatens UAE construction

Arabtec strike recalls tensions that marked the boom years

Editorial from COMMENT May 22, 2013

Iran’s poll charade

Ban on candidates highlights the frailty of the Islamic regime

IRAN May 22, 2013

Iran business shocked by Rafsanjani bar

Businesspeople were banking on boost to economy

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & SOCIETY May 22, 2013

Tunisia risks high price to beat radicals

Moderates unlikely to back government in fight against Islamists

IRAN May 22, 2013

Ahmadi-Nejad to fight aide’s election ban

Rafsanjani accepts decision to bar him from Iran presidential poll

From ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT May 21, 2013

Israel warns Assad over action in Golan

Most explicit warning yet to Damascus after attacks

IRAN May 21, 2013

Rafsanjani banned from presidential poll

Ally of Ahmadi-Nejad also excluded from Iran election

Editorial from COMMENT May 21, 2013

War within Islam

Tunisia’s Islamists belatedly turn against radical Salafis

May 21, 2013

EU urged to put Hizbollah on terror list

Move would curtail European activities of group’s military wing

From GLOBAL ECONOMY May 21, 2013

IMF calls for more Middle East reforms

Moderate growth ‘not enough to ease region’s unemployment’

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