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THE defensive missile shield around Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor was placed on red alert 30 times last week amid fears of an airstrike by Syria.

“In this respect we do appreciate Syria's decision to renew cooperation with us on our programs to address this humanitarian issue”

Syria has agreed to allow U.S. interviewers into the country to screen Iraqi refugees for admission to the United States, clearing a major obstacle to the Bush administration's resettlement program, the State Department said Thursday.

The move follows a late October visit to Damascus by senior U.S. envoys who won permission for Department of Homeland Security staff to travel to Syria to vet Iraqi refugees awaiting clearance to enter the U.S., said David Welch, the assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Read more

At university, we male students used to say that it was impossible to take a beautiful young woman to the cinema and concentrate on the film.

Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 8:23 pm Press Release: VOA News The leader of Lebanon's anti-Syrian ruling coalition says he has information about a plot to kill him.

“Dismantling and removing the building at such a rapid pace dramatically complicates any (IAEA) inspection of the facilities and suggests Syria may be trying to hide what was there”

By Mark Heinrich

VIENNA (Reuters) - New satellite pictures show Syria has razed the site of what might have been a secret nuclear reactor under construction apparently bombed by Israel last month, an atomic research institute says.

Syria has denied illicitly hiding a nuclear site from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and said the only facility in the area in question was a desertification research centre.

In commercial satellite images taken on Wednesday and issued by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a suspected reactor building visible in aerial photos before the September 6 air raid had vanished and the ground underneath scraped clean, the institute said. Read more

Commercial satellite images show construction in Syria that resembles the early stages of a small North Korean-model nuclear reactor, a report said Wednesday, speculating that it was the site hit last month by ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to "foreign interference" that has worsened Lebanon's political crisis and urged rival Lebanese parties to elect a new president, warning against a power ...

Independent experts have satellite imagery of what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear site targeted in an Israeli air strike last month, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Independent experts have satellite imagery of what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear site targeted in an Israeli air strike last month, The Washington Post reports.

One Lebanese MP yearns to see the sun, another to have his child fall asleep in his arms and a third would love to go to his dentist to treat a painful tooth.

FRAYING TIES WITH TURKEY By Graham E. Fuller Baltimore Sun Oct 22 2007 Turkish-American relations are in crisis.

LANDSDOWNE, Va. : Vice President Dick Cheney issued a pointed warning to Iran on Sunday, calling the government in Tehran "a growing obstacle to peace in the Middle East" and promising "serious consequences" if ...

Syria denied yesterday media reports suggesting that its U.N. envoy had said a nuclear site was hit in an Israeli air strike last month, saying there was no such thing on its soil.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assadis scheduled to pay an official visit to Turkey on Tuesday, the official SANA news agency reported on Monday.

Cases in Denmark and Germany illustrate a dangerous emerging pattern. Danish police search the area in front of an apartment building in northwestern Copenhagen.

“It's obvious that men are attracted to this series because it reminds them of something they miss, which is an obedient woman, which is what men want”

With its tales of brave men and dutiful women in a simpler, long-vanished Middle East, a Syrian soap opera has become the latest rage in the Arab world during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Throughout the month, people across the Middle East have rushed from mosques and flocked to coffeehouses each evening to catch 'Bab el-Hara,' or 'The Neighborhood Gate.' When the popular leader of the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah gave a televised address last Friday, many of his supporters watched the soap instead. Read more

Damascus - Syria was ready to improve relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but would not take part in the US-sponsored Annapolis peace conference, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Tunisia's ...

Israel admits air attack on Syria Abbas, Olmert meet again At least three people were killed and two injured Wednesday when a car exploded outside the Hamas Navy Force building in Gaza City.

“They treat Iraqis as guests, they deserve more support from the international community in taking care of these people”

Syria's decision to enforce new restrictions on Iraqi refugees this week has effectively cut off the last outside haven for people fleeing violence in Iraq, the UN refugee agency said Friday. via Independent Online

" - " Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah claimed on Friday that Israel was behind the assassination of Lebanese politicians and urged feuding parties to agree on who should become president in order to end the ...