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Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator
Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard what sounded like a small explosion, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floors above the ground. The 15 people inside were trapped for 45 frightening minutes until rescuers managed to pry open the doors.
updated: 49 minutes ago

Palestinian force makes gains in West Bank
The security men brandished their weapons and ordered the suspicious car to halt, forcing the occupants to get out and put their hands in their air. The suspects were quickly handcuffed, frisked and made to kneel on the ground as the vehicle was swept for explosives.
updated: 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

Life imitates art in Oscar-nominated Israeli film
There's a reason for the gritty feel of reality in "Ajami," an Oscar-nominated Israeli film about the lives of Arabs and Jews in the impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods of this Mediterranean city: Its amateur actors' lives eerily mirror their art.
updated: 2 hours, 22 minutes ago

Netanyahu's government tries to save settler house
The Israeli government has stepped in to save a house built illegally by Jewish settlers in a volatile Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, complicating already troubled U.S. efforts to renew Mideast peacemaking.
updated: 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

Palestinian refugee agency warns of funding gap
The head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is warning of a looming funding shortfall and appealing for another $100 million.
updated: 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program
Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.
updated: Feb 9th - 8:50am

Tel Aviv "savior" accused of enslaving women
The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name _ Savior.
updated: Feb 8th - 3:59pm

Egypt arrests 3 top Muslim Brotherhood leaders
The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures were arrested by police Monday in a dawn sweep targeting members of the nation's most powerful opposition group.
updated: Feb 8th - 3:32pm

Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief urges new attacks
The deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen called for attacks on Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the region in a new audio message posted Monday on the Internet.
updated: Feb 8th - 2:45pm

Chad's leader travels to Sudan to smooth relations
The president of Chad traveled to neighboring Sudan Monday for the first time in nearly six years to try to smooth relations strained over the troubled Darfur region.
updated: Feb 8th - 2:12pm

Rights watchdog says Bahrain police using torture
After abolishing torture more than 10 years ago, Bahrain's security services are once more resorting to the practice to extract confessions from detainees, including many Shiite protesters, said a report released Monday by an international human rights group.
updated: Feb 8th - 11:47am

Iran to cut ties with British Museum over loan
Iran said it will cut ties with the British Museum on Monday because of the museum's failure to lend Tehran an ancient Babylonian artifact described as the world's earliest bill of rights.
updated: Feb 8th - 10:46am

Israeli court releases pro-Palestinian activists
A pro-Palestinian organization says Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the release of two of its activists who were arrested in a West Bank raid.
updated: Feb 8th - 9:14am

Iran's leader vows to thwart protests this week
Iran's supreme leader vowed Monday to deliver a "punch in the mouth" to the country's enemies if the opposition goes ahead with major new protests planned for this week, as a senior pro-reform figure was sentenced to six years in prison over postelection unrest.
updated: Feb 8th - 8:44am

Iraqi PM: Appeals panel can review election law
Iraq's prime minister says he accepts an appeals panel's jurisdiction over a ban on candidates from March 7 parliamentary elections for their suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime.
updated: Feb 8th - 8:02am

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