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Yemeni women walk past a huge portrait of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen's southern port city Aden

Thousands protest over power cuts in Yemen's south

Thousands of people set car tyres ablaze and vandalised property in several areas of the southern Yemen city of Aden on Monday in protest at a power cut, an AFP journalist and local officials said Full Story


Bacchus inspires new wine-makers in Lebanon

Sebastien Khoury tests a sample of his red wine at his  Domaine Du Baal

In the heart of the Bekaa Valley, a few miles from a temple dedicated to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, Lebanon's vineyards are in full bloom as the country edges into the global wine market Full Story

Abu Dhabi's giant wealth fund hires GM's chief economist

The General Motors Company World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, has hired General Motors' Ted Chu as its chief economist, the investing firm said on Monday Full Story

Syria still stonewalling in nuclear probe: IAEA

Syrian capital Damascus in 2008

The UN atomic watchdog said Monday it has been unable to make any progress in its two-year investigation into alleged illicit nuclear activities in Syria as Damascus is still refusing to cooperate Full Story

84 charged over deadly Beirut shootout

A Lebanese gunman taking position along Burj Abi Haidar street in Beirut on August 24

Eighty-four people have been charged in connection with a deadly clash last month between Hezbollah and a pro-Syrian Sunni faction, Lebanon's official National News Agency reported Full Story

Jordan king briefs Syria's Assad on peace talks

Jordan's King Abdullah II

President Bashar al-Assad and Jordan's King Abdullah II met in Syria on Monday for talks on the resumption of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, SANA news agency reported Full Story

Captured Israeli soldier's family maintains vigil

Israelis hold banners showing captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit

The parents of a captive Israeli soldier on Monday brushed off a plea by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take a break from a protest vigil outside his residence for the Jewish New Year Full Story

Iran stoning woman's son says fears execution

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani was convicted on May 15, 2006 of having an  illicit relationship  with two men

The adult son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan Full Story

Iraq govt wants Aziz to die in prison: son

Tareq Aziz turned himself in to US forces in April 2003

The Iraqi government wants jailed former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to die in prison and has shown no compassion for his declining health, his Amman-based son said on Monday Full Story

Five killed in attack north of Baghdad: police

An Iraqi army helicopter patrols over the skies of the capital Baghdad

Five Iraqi businessmen who were involved in building a police station and a youth centre north of Baghdad were killed in a gun and knife attack overnight, police and medical officials said on Monday Full Story

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