By SABRINA TAVERNISE AND ETHAN BRONNER
Turkey, Israel's closest Muslim ally, protested the war with a month of angry remarks capped when its prime minister stalked off the stage during a debate with the Israeli president.
By SAM DAGHER
A tribal leader in Anbar Province has threatened to take up arms against a rival party whose officials he accused of manipulating vote tallies.
By ISABEL KERSHNER AND TAGHREED EL-KHODARY
Palestinians receiving food aid at a UN center at a refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday.
The charges signal tensions between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the Islamic rulers of the Palestinian enclave.
By ROBERT F. WORTH
The 11 suspects released from Guantánamo Bay passed a Saudi rehabilitation program before rejoining terror groups.
By HELENE COOPER AND MARK LANDLER
While Obama is expected to soften the Bush administration's line against talking to Iran, he also may try to toughen sanctions.
By BARRY BEARAK
The national government has fired the mayor of this capital city, something of a reprisal after the mayor announced over the weekend that he was taking over the government.
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
A burned tanker carrying high-grade gasoline overturned on Saturday on a road near the town of Molo. Witnesses said that one looter lit a match and threw it into a pool of gushing gasoline.
The death toll rose to more than 100 people after an overturned gasoline tanker exploded on a Kenyan highway as looters tried to scoop up the spilled fuel.
POLITICUS
By JOHN VINOCUR
An aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said, "I believe that Mr. Ahmadinejad's message to congratulate Obama should be considered as an unclenched fist."
This business about clenched fists and extended hands between the Americans and Iranians (who's doing the clenching and what constitutes reaching out?) is getting confusing.
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Israel rejects calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stepped up preparations for a ground offensive.
As 2008 draws to a close, Iraqi forces prepare to take over from coalition forces on Jan. 1.
Boys coming of age in the refugee camps in Darfur, Sudan, constitute a rising political force.
East Africa Bureau Chief Jeffrey Gettleman reports on efforts to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
The leader of the East Congalese rebel forces says they aren't responsible for the mass killings in November.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Obama election and the challenges ahead for Africa.
Thousands of Iraqis gathered in Baghdad on Friday to protest a security agreement with the United States.
Pirates have plagued the Horn of Africa for years, but attacks are increasing in number and audacity.
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