Traffic plan threatens ancient quarter of Damascus
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Pilgrim buses clog a road just outside the Old City of Damascus. Partly to solve that nuisance, municipal planners want to carve a highway through a historic but neglected quarter of the Syrian capital.
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Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr relinquished control of its revered shrine under a peace deal.
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An attempted takeover of the US Embassy in Damascus highlights Syria's own multiple enemies.
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Israeli planners have redrawn the  route of a planned barrier in the southern West Bank to avoid  grabbing occupied land, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on  Monday.
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BEIRUT: With a new government likely due by month's end, Damascus is expected to use the coming weeks to smooth the tense internal and international atmosphere provoked by its unpopular decision to extend ...
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The Jerusalem municipality will submit new plans for a walkway leading to a disputed holy compound, a City Hall spokesman said Monday, but work was scheduled to continue at the site.
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Information minister says bombing of car belonging to Hamas member in Damascus shows Israel rejects peace. DAMASCUS- Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah on Tuesday said the bombing of a car belonging
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Security is tight in Beirut amid fears that anti-government protests led by the Hezbollah militia may turn violent.
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Travel: Is Damascus the new Marrakesh? We've asked top travel insiders to pick their destinations to watch
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Plans for a new walkway to Jerusalem's holiest site are scrapped amid archaeological concerns, Israeli officials say.
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Israel will renovate the crumbling entrance to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City that is revered by Jews and Muslims, officials said Monday.
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Some streets are bullet-riddled and abandoned danger zones â the boundaries between Sunni and Shiite areas.
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The isolation of Syria appears to be breaking as Damascus seeks deals with the Saudis and the Lebanese.
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Here's a city with a parking crisis, crippling traffic jams, and unaffordable rents.
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A suspected bomb blew up in a car in a crowded district of Damascus on Monday, destroying the vehicle and slightly wounding a passerby, residents said.
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: Nepalâs Maoist rebels said today they would indefinitely block vehicles travelling on two of the three main highways leading to the capital, raising fears of another serious disruption of supplies to Kathmandu.
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The government's repairs to New Orleans' hurricane-damaged levees may put the French Quarter in greater danger than it was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness planners said couldn't be helped, at least for now.