Tuesday, July 9, 2013

BBC News - Middle East

BBC News - Middle East


Egypt opposition rejects poll plan

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 05:38 PM PDT

The main liberal opposition coalition in Egypt rejects interim leader Adly Mansour's decree, which sets a new poll timetable to try to stop the unrest.

Key Morocco party quits government

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 02:44 PM PDT

The junior partner in Morocco's Islamist-led government, the secular centre-right Istiqlal party, quits amid a dispute over subsidy cuts.

Car bomb rocks south Beirut suburbs

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:05 AM PDT

A car bomb attack wounds dozens of people in a stronghold of Lebanon's Shia militant group Hezbollah in southern Beirut.

Syria rebels accused of sarin use

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 12:18 PM PDT

Russia says it has evidence showing a projectile that hit a northern Syrian village contained the nerve agent sarin and was most likely fired by rebels.

Saudi women urge end to jail term

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Two women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia call on their government to overturn a jail sentence for inciting a woman to defy her husband's authority.

UK pledges refugee aid for Lebanon

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 06:01 PM PDT

The government is to announce £10m in aid to Lebanon to help it cope with the influx of Syrian refugees.

Hard choices in Egypt's middle class

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 04:22 PM PDT

Hard choices for Egypt's middle classes

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