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Germany officially recognises the Libyan Rebel Government

fter months of hesitations, Germany has yesterday recognised Libya's rebels as "the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people", becoming the 13th country to do so after after Australia, Britain, France, Gambia, Italy, Jordan, Malta, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Anti-government protesters shout during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in Sanaa

Yemen deal broken: A slow slide into civil war?

Relief could be felt and hope expressed after the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced that he was willing to sign a transition deal. However, on Wednesday and despite Washington's insistence on the necessity of a deal being signed so Yemen could "move forward immediately" with political reform, the agreement fell through. It seems that unhappy about certain details, the Yemeni president backed out of a deal that would have granted him immunity from prosecution and allowed him...
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The rest and the West: The Middle East through a distorting prism?

In comparison to other regions in the world, the Middle East attracts a relatively large part of US foreign policy time and has often presented it with its most enduring challenges. In the last decades, protecting the US interests within the region has become a complicated tasks as America has had to deal with the rise of Iran as a regional and influential power in the region and its illegal nuclear activities, the toppling of Saddam Hussein and his regime, invade Afghanistan, try to fight...
A soldier from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) forces prays in front of his Armour Personnel Carrier in Manama

Strained to breaking point? Saudi Arabia's intervention in Bahrain could break the camel's back

Forget Britain's "Special Relationship" with America, largely a mirage of the Foreign Office and its existence unknown to most Americans. Even as World War II was ending, the cracks in the relationship between Britain and the United States were becoming ever more obvious to contemporaries and for more recent generations can be studied by reading books, both military and political, such as Armageddon and Nemesis by Max Hastings.
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Why the UAE Banned Blackberrys

The BlackBerry uses proprietary software that encrypts all wireless transmissions from Blackberry devices which the UAE can't break.