Middle East News – Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale
Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale
Lauren Greenfield traveled to Dubai earlier this year to photograph the housing bust. Her evocative photographs now seem prescient as well.
Top Leaders Fail to Attend Meeting in Iran s Parliament
In a sign of a growing divide among Iranian leaders, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani skipped a meeting aimed at creating political unity.
Economic Scene: A Quaking Brings No Collapse
In the week after Dubai World told its creditors they wouldn t be getting all their money back, two lessons about the global economy have emerged.
Iran Sets Limit to What It Tells Atomic Agency
Iran said Friday it would keep plans for 10 new enrichment plants secret until six months before they were ready to concentrate uranium into nuclear fuel.
Israel Arrests Settlers Fighting Freeze
A moratorium on settlement construction was meant to help restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks but has so far succeeded only in pitting the settlers against the state.
A Defiant Iran Vows to Build Nuclear Plants
Iran s announcement that it would construct 10 more uranium enrichment plans drew criticism on Monday.
Names of the Dead
The Department of Defense has identified 4,357 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.
Britain Says Iran Has Freed Five Detained Sailors
The sailors had been held after their racing yacht apparently drifted into Iranian waters.
Iraqi Filmmakers Defy Militants With Screenings at Bomb Sites
Iraqi feature films are being screened at the sites of four of the most devastating bombings in Baghdad, in an attempt to help combat a continuing climate of fear.
Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq
Major oil companies are finally gaining access to Iraq s petroleum reserves, but at far less advantageous terms than they once envisioned.
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Settlers Turn Down Premier
West Bank settler leaders rejected a personal plea from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to respect a construction freeze in their communities.
Israel to Recruit More Building Inspectors to Enforce a Freeze on West Bank Construction
Israel s defense minister told his staff to recruit dozens of new building inspectors to supervise the government s temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements.
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