Campaigning in Taba
Talks in Taba seemed more about weakening Sharon's chances in Israel's elections than about achieving any real progress towards a final settlement, Khaled Dawoud, in the Egyptian resort, writes

Daylight at night -- remembering Sharon
As Ariel Sharon stands poised to be the new Israeli prime minister, Graham Usher -- in Shatila and Jerusalem -- looks at how Israeli politicians and Palestinian refugees at once forget and remember his past

Laying the ground for Sharon
The Israeli army continues its killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank despite the understandings reached in Taba to put an end to the Israeli violence, Khaled Amayreh reports from Hebron

A cancerous web of deception
Depleted uranium, used extensively in both the Gulf war and the conflict in the Balkans, has been revealed to be a cause of cancer. Ashraf El-Bayoumi traces the history of a cover-up

Innocent victims of a dirty war
Ten years after the Gulf War, Karim El-Gohari talks to doctors in the Basra region of southern Iraq about the increase in cases of deformed babies and childhood cancer, blamed on the use of depleted uranium by US and British troops

Bashing the boycott
Ties with Israel had government and opposition embroiled in fierce confrontation in Jordan this week, Lola Keilani reports from Amman

Risky Judgment
Iran sentences intelligence agents to death for murdering dissidents. But as Azadeh Moaveni, in Tehran, reports, both reformists and the victims' families hint at a cover-up

Yet another cabinet
Convincing Barak

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