8 February 2010 Iran is set to begin enriching uranium and plans to build 10 new facilities over the next year where enrichment can be carried out, the head of the country's atomic energy organisation has said.
8 February 2010 Sheikh Anwar al-Aulaqi , a Yemeni religious scholar, has told Al Jazeera that the suspect accused of attempting to blow up a US passenger jet on Christmas Day, was one of his students.
8 February 2010 Iran has cut links with the British Museum over its failure to lend the Islamic Republic an ancient Persian treasure, according to Iranian media.
5 February 2010 The UN secretary general has said he cannot determine if the Israelis and Palestinians have complied with a UN demand to carry out credible and independent investigations into alleged war crimes during the war in Gaza more than a year ago.
5 February 2010 Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims have poured into Iraq’s holy city of Karbala, ignoring government warnings that they could be targets of bomb attacks.
8 January 2010 President Michel Sleiman met with a US Congress delegation at Baabda Palace on Friday. The meeting addressed local and regional developments as well as bilateral relations.
8 January 2010 In an interview with Al Akhbar newspaper, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said that the Lebanese political system is caught in a vicious cycle, which cannot be broken by the current political balances.
8 January 2010 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed readiness for war with Lebanon by next May 20 amid Israeli accusations that Hizbullah was responsible for placing large quantities of explosives in southern Lebanon.
8 January 2010 The Lebanese army intelligence has reportedly arrested a suspected Fatah al-Islam member and seized devices and equipment during a raid of an apartment in Beirut.
An Nahar daily on Friday described the man as a "hefty catch" given his participation in terrorist activities in Lebanon.
8 January 2010 High-ranking Lebanese security sources said the large quantities of explosives found in the southern town of Khiam Dec. 26 were not set to explode.
They told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in remarks published Friday the story of how the explosives were found 10 days ago.
7 January 2010 In an interview with NBN television on Wednesday night, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said that being qualified is the best criterion for making the administrative appointments. However, he added that the politicization of the appointments is unavoidable.
