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June 17, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Non-Orthodox Jews start making inroads in Israel
With the holy city of Jerusalem visible in the background, a man and woman standing side-by-side lead prayers for about 50 congregants who have come to welcome the Sabbath in this suburb's Reform synagogue.
June 17, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Al-Qaeda leader urges Egypt to cancel peace treaty with Israel, institute Islamic rule
Al-Qaeda’s leader has urged Egypt to cancel its peace treaty with Israel and to establish Islamic rule, according to an audio message released Sunday.
June 17, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Egypt’s military cements its powers as voting ends
The Muslim Brotherhood early Monday projected its candidate, an Islamist, as the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, hours after the ruling military council issued an interim constitution granting itself broad power over the future government, all but eliminating the president’s authority in an apparent effort to guard against just such a victory.
June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Tunisian government bans planned protests by rival groups as religious tensions grow
The Tunisian government has banned a series of marches planned for this Friday by hardline Islamists and rival groups citing concerns of possible violence in the country, which is grappling with rising religious tension as it struggles to emerge from years of secular dictatorship.
June 12, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Libya weapons aid Tuareg rebellion in Mali
Abdallah takes out his pistol and hands it to a friend. He says he is in good company, so he does not need it.
June 12, 2012 - The Washington Post
WaPo: Egyptian presidential hopeful attacks Islamists to gain support
Just days before the final round of Egypt’s presidential election, religion has become a deciding factor for many voters, who face a stark choice between a conservative Islamist and a secular former military officer.
June 12, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: With eye on Turkey, Israel debates Armenia deaths
The Israeli parliament debated Tuesday whether to recognize the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 100 years ago as genocide, a move that would enrage Turkey and further strain already tense ties between the two countries.
June 10, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Israel forms two lines over shopping on the Sabbath
It's a bright Saturday morning and shopkeepers at the trendy Tel Aviv Port shopping mall are bracing for the thousands of Israeli families about to descend upon the city's busiest outdoor retail promenade.
June 08, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Ghostly sect of Syria’s past haunts its future
When the French ruled Syria after the carve-up of the Middle East that followed the First World War, they needed a local group they could rely on, a favoured minority to keep the rest in check and to help to enforce their mandate.
June 07, 2012 - The Moscow Times
Moscow Times: Orthodox Church destruction fought in Morocco
The Russian Orthodox Church is fighting the demolition of a church in Casablanca after a defrocked priest illegally sold it to a local developer, church officials say.
June 06, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Israel moves to improve religious freedom – for Jews
Israel has always touted a national respect for freedom of religion in a region where religious intolerance runs high.
June 03, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Lebanon, a worrying sectarian spillover from Syria
Rival Sunni and Alawite factions fought on Saturday some of the heaviest gunbattles seen in Lebanon's second largest city since the dark days of the the civil war which ended more than two decades ago.
June 02, 2012 - The Telegraph
Telegraph: The Shabiha: Inside Assad's death squads
The door to Dr Mousab Azzawi's clinic, on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, was always open to anyone who needed help.
May 31, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Muslims accuse Ethiopian government of meddling in mosques
Ethiopia's Muslims have been protesting 'state interference' in their affairs for the past six months.
May 31, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night
After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites.
May 29, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Syria ‘at a tipping point,’ Annan declares
As the civil war veers toward what the UN’s peace envoy called a decisive moment, grisly details from the scene of a massacre have prompted Canada and several other countries to expel Syrian diplomats.
May 29, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Egypt: Islamist candidate reassures women, Copts
The presidential candidate for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday sought to expand his support base ahead of a tight runoff against an ex-regime figure next month, vowing to ensure the full rights of Christians and women if he is elected.
May 29, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Egypt further polarised by choice between theocrat and enforcer
EGYPTIAN VOTERS defied pundits, pollsters and the people as a whole by projecting two old regime figures, Muslim fundamentalist Muhammad Mursi and former minister Ahmad Shafiq, into the second round of the presidential election on June 16th-17th.
May 28, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Afghanistan: The Taliban’s high-tech urban strategy
Qari Jamal has returned safely from a reconnaissance mission in Kabul.
May 28, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pair of villages in Holy Land teaching Aramaic in effort to revive language that Jesus spoke
Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East.
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