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Page last updated at 15:35 GMT, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:35 UK

Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora (l) meets Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki
Lebanon PM visits Iraq for talks
Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora arrives in Baghdad, in the first visit by a Lebanese leader since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Iraq violence in figures
In depth: Struggle for Iraq

Map Iran condemned for youth hanging
Amnesty International condemns the hanging in Iran of a youth for a crime committed when he was under 18 years old.

Jose Luis Nazario US ex-marine faces Iraq charges
The civil trial opens of an ex-US marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in Falluja, in the first case of its kind.

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Roof tanks, Beit Jalla, near Bethlehem Tanks running dry
Drought heightens West Bank water woes
Gaza fisherman Under blockade
Hamas-Israel truce brings little relief to the Gaza Strip
Moshe Eliahu studying Torah, Jerusalem A life apart
A rare insight into the world of Israel's Haredi Jews

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