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Palestinian children’s health in decline, says report

A two-year international investigation has revealed an increase in the number of stunted children in the occupied Palestinian territories and conditions so extreme that Palestinian women have on occasion been forced to give birth at Israeli military checkpoints...

The forgotten Damascus Spring

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria may be feeling the effects of President Obama’s promised "change". After years of US-imposed isolation, Assad has received two US Congressional delegations since Obama became president, plus a visit from John Kerry, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee..

Iran sought Turkey’s help to mend links with US, says Erdogan

Iran has asked Turkey to help it resolve its 30-year dispute with the US as a possible prelude to re-establishing ties, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has told the Guardia..

Is political Islam a threat to the west?

To be fair, the side arguing against the motion did not articulate the complex variety of "political Islam" either. Instead, they spent an inordinate amount of time on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as a model of non-violent Islamism. ..

Towards the enlightened middle

To quell the simmering discontent between the US and Muslims, Obama must embrace diplomacy and foster respectful dialogue..

Gaza conflict will shake the Arab world

Egypt’s leadership could be the first hit by shockwaves sent through the neighbourhood by Israel’s attacks..

A year of healthy scepticism

Though the injustices of this world will continue, people will be less willing to swallow the lines fed them by the media and governments..

Palling with dictators?

Analysis of the "global response" to Barack Obama’s stunning victory last night tends to oscillate erratically between the elite and the street, interspersing the thoughts of diplomatic officialdom with quotes from random taxi drivers encountered by the reporter on the way to the airport. Neither approach offers a particularly satisfying insight into the significance of Obama’s victory beyond America’s borders, and it’s easy to question the veracity of sweeping generalisations regardin..

Egypt fails on free speech

Along with arresting newspaper editors, the state security apparatus is restricting access to websites, and the internet itself..

Brace yourselves - George Bush Will Soon Be Free To Do Just What He Wants

We are about to enter the twilight zone, that strange black hole in political time and space that appears no more than once every four years. It is known as the period of transition, and it starts a week from today, the time when the United States has not one president but two. One will be the president-elect, the other George Bush, in power for 12 more weeks in which he can do pretty much whatever he likes. Not only will he never again have to face voters, he won’t even have to worry ..

New brushstrokes on Egypt’s canvas

The internet, ham-fisted censorship and an outspoken young generation are combining to redraw the media landscape..

Desmond Tutu: Israeli shelling in Gaza may be war crime•

Desmond Tutu, the South African Nobel laureate, said yesterday there was a "possibility" Israel had committed a war crime when 18 Palestinians from a single family were killed by Israeli artillery shells in Gaza two years ago...

Too racy for Ramadan

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, is a time for fasting, prayer and contemplation as well as elaborate evening meals and family get-togethers...

Did neocons start the second cold war?

Dick Cheney’s whirlwind Caucasus tour, which began today, will be interpreted by conspiracy theorists, Kremlin apologists, and by the Russian government, as further "proof" of their contention that the hawkish US vice-president and his neocon ..

Egypt is ablaze with conspiracy theories

Cynics suspect government involvement in a fire at the Shura council in Cairo: a sign of how volatile the country has becomeAll comments ()..

Egypt: bread shortages, hunger and unrest

Hoda al-Latif and the son she describes as "ill in the head" have long relied on the comfort of friends and neighbours. Sympathisers paid the rent on a cramped flat in the rundown east side of Cairo and picked up extra meat at the butchers for the near destitute widow and 25-year-old Ahmed, who the government classifies as mentally handicapped..

We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary

The Guardian, Wednesday April 30 2008 Article historyIn May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust...

Forgotten but not gone

If governments around the world want the legal black hole of Guant?namo Bay to end, they need to take responsibility for those still held there..

Hamas condemns the Holocaust

As the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe") - the dispossession and expulsion of most of our people from our land - those remaining in Palestine face escalating aggression, killings, imprisonment, ethnic cleansing and siege...

Gaza’s economic growth has halted, World Bank says

Gaza’s economic growth has ground to a halt and will continue to shrink unless Israel lifts its economic blockade on the beleaguered Palestinian territory, a new World Bank report says. After three years of warning that Palestinian businesses were on the brink of collapse, the World Bank yesterday reported that Gaza’s economy had recorded zero growth in 2007...