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LEBANON
Rich Feast Through Month of Fasting
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Although not a celebration in the traditional sense, Ramadan in Lebanon is a time of joy for many, during which families reconnect and share their wealth with the poor. But in this country of extremes, not everyone has the luxury of celebrating the holy month.
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MIDEAST
Pessimistic About Peace, Yet…
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Peter Klochendler
JERUSALEM - As President Obama on Wednesday initiates the ninth U.S. attempt in the last 30 years to bring about a final Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement, expectations are low and pessimism is high.
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MIDEAST
Netanyahu Ignores President, and Wife
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEl AVIV - Thousands of Israelis have protested in a central park here demanding that their government revoke its decision to deport 400 children of migrant workers.
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EGYPT
Military Court Sentences Civilian Workers
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - An Egyptian military court handed down sentences Monday in the trial of eight civilian factory workers who led a protest against deteriorating safety conditions in an army-owned factory. Rights groups say the trial should never have taken place.
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US-MIDEAST
Light At End of Tunnel Elusive, Despite Obama’s Efforts
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will try this week to underline his progress in extricating the United States from the morass his predecessor's "global war on terror" in the Greater Middle East.
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MIDEAST
Bureaucracy Limits Rights of Palestinian Women
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling these advances.
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MIDEAST
'McCarthyism' Rises in Israel
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move is under way by right-wing parties in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to limit the freedom of action of civil and human rights-minded NGOs.
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RIGHTS-BAHRAIN
Law on Young Offenders Needs Fixing - Critics

By Suad Hamada
MANAMA - It was his second time to be caught stealing a car, so Turki was meted a jail term of five years. But the young repeat offender was only 17 years old at the time of his arrest, and therefore was still considered a minor under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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MIDEAST
This Math Class May Figure Out Israel
By Eva Bartlett
AL ZAHARA, Central Gaza Strip - In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digit addition they are asked to make. One student stands before the numbers on the chalkboard and a red and yellow-beaded abacus. But her attention is on the abacus she visualises in her mind.
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MIDEAST
Palestinian Patients Suffer From Political Rivalry
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Cancer patient Ahmed Abu Fuad needs chemotherapy to survive. Muhammad Subeh needs an eye-transplant while paramedic Alaa Sarhan desperately needs surgery to remove shrapnel from his body. But these Gazans are unable to leave the area to seek the required medical treatment elsewhere, and it is not because of the Israeli siege.
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Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Presence
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insisting that the United States must continue to assume that U.S. combat forces should and can remain in Iraq indefinitely.
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MIDEAST
Darkness Dawns at Ramadan
By Eva Bartlett
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - "It's been days without electricity and water. We can't do anything, and it's unbearably hot now." Abu Fouad, 83, speaks of the power cuts plaguing all of the Gaza Strip.
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ISRAEL-LEBANON
U.N. Treads Cautiously in Probe of Border Firefight
By Jennifer Leong
UNITED NATIONS - Three weeks after a fatal exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon along the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has yet to make recommendations on easing tension at the border.
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MIDEAST
Stitching Together a Living, Somehow
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY - Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City's main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, with only intermittent electricity for some hours a day at best, sits a single battered and aging sewing machine.
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New Book Assembles Eyewitness Accounts from Mavi Marmara
By Kumari Karandawala
NEW YORK - A growing number of activists is contradicting the claims of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) regarding the Gaza Freedom Flotilla debacle in May, including a large faction of both Israeli and U.S. Jews.
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