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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offers his congratulations to Barack Obama on his US presidential win.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears to concede that a Mid-East peace deal will not be reached by the end of the year.

No easy way out of Iraq for next US commander-in-chief

Baghdad is quieter, but Iraq still relies on US firepower

Four people have been killed by twin bombs at a checkpoint in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.

Israel says it favours an extension of the truce in Gaza, despite an outbreak of violence in the past two days.

Child brides in Yemen fight back in the courts

Police in Iraq say that at least eleven people have been killed in two separate explosions in the capital Baghdad.

Iran's parliament votes to sack Interior Minister Ali Kordan after he admits his degree from Oxford was in fact a forgery.

Fear of dying still stalks streets of Iraq's capital