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Page last updated at 09:05 GMT, Friday, 21 November 2008

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US Lockerbie families compensated
The families of US victims of the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing say they have received full compensation from Libya.
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Libya compensates terror victims
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American dominance is likely to weaken by 2025 as India and China grow stronger, a new US intelligence report says.

Manor al-Kassar US convicts Syrian arms dealer
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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Woman waits for food aid, Rafah, south Gaza, 18.11.08 Despair and anger
Gazans report worst ever living conditions
Jamal Khader Syrian business
Long-isolated Syria warms to tourism in Damascus
Sahwa Council member Returning sons
Awakening Council move hailed as a success in Iraq

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Al-Qaeda vows to hurt Obama's US
Syria and UK 'share intelligence'
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UK hopeful of Middle East change
UN fears over Gaza blockade
Egypt 'must halt' Israel gas deal

BUSINESS

Opec 'lost $700bn on cheaper oil'
Global gloom depresses oil price

MEDIA ROUND-UP
Algeria constitution vote dismay
Mid-East press ponder Israel vote

YOUR PERSPECTIVE
Gaza voices on the closure
Egypt: On TV, in a headscarf
Iraqi Christians: fleeing Mosul

FEATURES
Questioning the ceasefire in Gaza
Eviction in battle for East Jerusalem
Cleaning up at the Beirut races
'Painful' US-Libya era nears end
Iraq's damaged Babylon

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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
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Abu Dhabi is determined to scale the cultural heights
Hassan Berwari Iraqi voices
Views on the recently struck deal on US troops
Yehuda Shaul argues with an Israeli police officer Jerusalem diary
Court ruling creates strange Israeli bedfellows
STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ
Security draws Iraqi doctors home
Iraq leader defends US troop deal
Iraq war 'violated rule of law'
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Jackson to appear at High Court
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