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CORRUPTION: Afghanistan, Iraq Near Bottom of Transparency Index
U.S.: Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group
RIGHTS: Iraqi Minorities Dying Over Turf War
U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings
RIGHTS-US: Lawsuit Probes Role of Psychologists in Terror War
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U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
MIDEAST: U.S. Credibility as Peace Broker Eroding by the Day
MIDEAST: West Is East, When Israel Decides
MIDEAST: Palestinians Threaten Unilateral Independent State
MIDEAST: U.S. Takes Aim Over Jordan's Shoulder
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LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
By Dalila Mahdawi
BEIRUT - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.
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U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror".
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MIDEAST: U.S. Credibility as Peace Broker Eroding by the Day
By Ellen Massey
WASHINGTON - In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, movement in the standoff between the two sides can be as often backward as it is forward. The past couple of weeks have seen moves from both sides that have garnered the attention of the world, but forward progress remains elusive.
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MIDEAST: West Is East, When Israel Decides
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Along a wall not about to come down - a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost.
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HEALTH-EGYPT: Over the Top With Anti-Swine Flu Steps
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - As authorities consider suspending a whole academic year to check the spread of swine flu among school children there is a feeling that measures to contain the H1N1 virus - known to be less dangerous than the one responsible for seasonal flu - are going over the top.
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MIDEAST: Palestinians Threaten Unilateral Independent State
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Following the political deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to take the matter directly to the U.N. Security Council.
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MIDEAST: U.S. Takes Aim Over Jordan's Shoulder
By Jon Elmer
MUWAQQAR, Jordan - In the bleak and seemingly endless desert expanse that unfolds east of Jordan's capital city, Amman, lies a crucial cog in the ambitious regional designs of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.
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MIDEAST: Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
By Mel Frykberg
EZBT ABBED RABBO - Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
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RIGHTS-TURKEY: Transforming Men from Culprits to Allies
By Hilmi Toros
ISTANBUL - Success in fighting violence against women may well hinge on partnership with an often overlooked but still a critically vital party - men themselves.
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Q&A: No Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian State, Says Erekat
Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler interview SAEB EREKAT, the chief Palestinian negotiator
JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority has embarked on a new strategic drive to get renewed international recognition for the borders of the future Palestinian state. Last Thursday it gained backing for this approach from the Arab League.
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US-MIDEAST: Baseball Team Urged to Cut Ties with Israeli Group
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the "violent and racist" Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets' stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21.
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POLITICS-US: Right Seizes on Ft. Hood Killings as "Islamic Terror"
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Senior military and Barack Obama administration officials have been on a full-court press to preempt an anti-Muslim backlash since the shooting spree by a Muslim soldier at Fort Hood, Texas, but right-wing pundits have wasted no time in characterising Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions as an act of terrorism by a radical Islamic extremist.
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MIDEAST: Gaza Graduates Search for Vitamin W
By Mohammed Omer
THE HAGUE - "We fast a long time," says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. "Only to break our fast on a piece of onion."
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