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U.S. promotes free elections, only to see allies lose
DUBAI — Political spin masters in Lebanon have been trying in recent days to explain the results of a pivotal special election last Sunday, which saw a relative unknown from the opposition narrowly b...
Saudi king tells Arab leaders that U.S. occupation of Iraq is illegal
RIYADH — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has told Arab leaders that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settle their differences, foreign powers like the Unit...
Talk in Saudi Arabia turns to ‘Iranian threat’
RIYADH — At a late-night reading earlier this week, a self-styled poet held up his hand for silence and began a riff on the events in neighboring Iraq, in the old style of Bedouin storytellers. “S...