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World: Mideast Today's Headlines  |  December 1, 2008

Foreseeing a Clinton State Dept., Israelis and Arabs retool their expectations By Richard Boudreaux, Jeffrey Fleishman and Paul Richter Israel is applauding her all-but-certain nomination as a check on Obama, while the news has damped Arabs' hopes of a swing away from Bush policies. Dissident poet is allowed to speak, but Egypt's leaders aren't listening By Jeffrey Fleishman Iman Bakry has risen to national prominence with her politically barbed verse about repression, corruption and poverty, appealing to the intellectual as well as the illiterate. L.A. Chabad mourns couple slain in Mumbai By Jason Song and Ted Rohrlich About 1,000 people gather in Westwood for a memorial. Plans are made to transfer the Holtzbergs' 2-year-old son to Israel. After Mumbai attacks, Israel debates protection for Chabad Houses By Ashraf Khalil 'There's not much we can actually do,' says an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman. 'Not only is it not governmental, it's not even Israeli.' Relatives meet remains of Kurds found in mass graves By Asso Ahmed The remains of 150 found in southern Iraq are met at the airport in Irbil. There is a ceremony, but also disappointment for many. World Briefing Zimbabwe: Cholera death toll mounts / Romania: Leftists appear to win vote / Switzerland: Voters make heroin program permanent / Mideast: Iran, Iraq swap troops' remains / Nigeria: Violence quelled U.S. journalist in Iraq escapes blast uninjured A bomb attached to the vehicle used by an NPR correspondent and three Iraqi colleagues explodes. But a warning from Iraqi soldiers helps all escape harm. Students beat the odds in Somalia Twenty doctors and dozens of teachers will graduate from a university in Somalia this week in the first graduation ceremony for almost two decades in the failed Horn of Africa state. Mumbai residents fear attacks' aftereffects By Mark Magnier In addition to taking lives, the terrorists apparently targeted the city's economy. Hindu-Muslim relations could also suffer. Pakistan pledges to look into any militant role in Mumbai attacks By Josh Meyer and Sebastian Rotella Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says India had not presented Pakistan with evidence linking the terrorists to militants on its territory. Rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone kills 2 By Tina Susman The strike near the local U.N. headquarters may reflect the anger of Shiite militias over a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact. An earlier rocket hit the U.S. military compound Camp Victory. BLOG Babylon & Beyond Iran, from inside and outside: Web-only coverage about the Middle East powerhouse that is a cause for concern in capitals around the globe. The Egyptian Sphinx: Exclusive coverage of the political tumult and cultural wonders of the Arab world's largest, most storied and oldest nation. SPECIAL REPORT: JERUSALEM Struggle for the heart of a holy city The Los Angeles Times looks at Jerusalem 40 years after the 1967 war. FOREIGN BUREAUS Explore The Times' world From Baghdad to Buenos Aires, 30 foreign correspondents cover news for the Los Angeles Times from around the globe. SUBSCRIBE Click here to subscribe to World: Mideast, The Times' free daily e-mail newsletter on the Middle East.

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