Outside the walls
of national unity
Following their recent rapprochement in Cairo, the PLO factions met in Ramallah on Tuesday. But how national is the new Palestinian "national unity"? Graham Usher writes from Ramallah and Ain Helweh in Lebanon
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Coming down
on Hamas
In what could have been a coordinated action, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan have clamped down on the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. Khaled Amayreh reports from Jerusalem
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Burger blaze
The closure of a Burger King store in a West Bank settlement was celebrated as a triumph for the Arabs but, as Rasha Saad writes, it might not be the last battle
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Pope unimpressed by US ire
Baghdad hopes that Pope John Paul II's projected visit to Iraq in December will highlight the plight of its people and put on hold the nearly daily US attacks over north and south Iraq, Samia Nkrumah writes from Rome
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Turkey's time of reckoning
The Turkish government is trying to restore public confidence after failing to react quickly to the latest tragic earthquake, writes Gareth Jenkins from Istanbul
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A phantom is haunting Yemen
This week's explosions in Yemen emphasised the security file as the real challenge facing President Ali Abdullah Saleh's coming presidential term, reports Sherine Bahaa
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New face; same old story
Washington's appointment of a new special envoy for Sudan could spark trouble for Khartoum, writes Gamal Nkrumah
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