Middle East News – Baghdad bomber called Syria before August attack: minister (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Baghdad bomber called Syria before August attack: minister (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Bolani told parliament on Monday that a suicide bomber who attacked the foreign ministry in August made a phone call to Syria before detonating his payload, an MP said.
Jordan king swears in new government (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Jordan’s King Abdullah II swore in the seventh government of his reign on Monday, a 29-strong cabinet led by former palace aide Samir Rifai, with two women in his team.
Egypt puts archives on Web to boost Arabic content (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Egypt has begun making its national archives digitally available on the Internet in Arabic, having last month registered the world’s first domain name in Arabic script.
Jordan king swears in new conservative government (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Jordan’s King Abdullah, a close ally of the United States, swore in a government on Monday headed by the scion of a powerful political family and charged it with speeding reforms before parliamentary elections next year.
Egypt Forces Copts to Hide as Muslims Hit Swiss Minaret Ban (Bloomberg)
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — On a side street in the far northeast Cairo suburb of Ain Shams, the door of a five-story former underwear factory is padlocked.
Petraeus irked over Syrian border efforts (UPI)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 14 (UPI) — Damascus can do more to prevent foreign fighters from crossing the border with Iraq, military leaders said.
Gaza border: Why Egypt is building a steel underground wall (The Christian Science Monitor)
Reports from the Gaza border say that Egypt is building an underground wall as deep as 100 feet to stem smuggling in Hamas-controlled tunnels. But there are broader goals, too.
France returns stolen Louvre relics to Egypt (AFP via Yahoo! News)
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy handed his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak a stolen ancient relic on Monday, ending a row between France and Egypt over artefacts taken from a Luxor tomb.
Egypt to ask British Museum for Rosetta Stone (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said he plans to ask the British Museum to hand the Rosetta Stone over to his country.
France returns wall paintings sought by Egypt (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fragments of an ancient wall painting that caused a feud between Egypt and the Louvre Museum are heading home.
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