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Though Esha Momeni is out on bail, her father says authorities have seized her passport. Momeni, who was researching her master's thesis in Iran, faces charges of undermining national security.
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COLUMN ONE
The Iraqi capital's first commuter train is slow but steady through streets often tied up by checkpoints and bombings. Just beware the crossing cars, stone-throwing youths and meandering cows. >>
A brazen attack far out at sea, on a huge tanker with a capacity of 2 million barrels, raises concerns about the regional menace. The pirates appeared to be steering the ship to Somalia. >>
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As Iraq's parliament plans to vote on a deal that would set Dec. 31, 2011, as the end date for U.S. occupation, The Times answers questions about the pact. >>
Tel Aviv police suspect a rival crime family is behind Yaakov Alperon's death. The Alperons have been locked in a dispute over a lucrative recycling business and have a laundry list of enemies. >>
This much Hiba Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does that mean for her? >>
BELIEFS
A recent forum at the Vatican designed to foster interfaith communication is the kind of thing local followers have been doing for years. >>
The long-negotiated security pact is expected to face opposition in parliament by lawmakers who see it as a sellout. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr has threatened a renewed uprising. >>
Salafists, accused of being terrorists in other parts of the Arab world, are moving into the mainstream with the help of leading politician Saad Hariri in exchange for bolstering his religious base. >>
Shipments out of Pakistan bound for U.S. and NATO forces have been suspended pending a review of security in the vulnerable Khyber Pass, near where Taliban fighters hijacked several transports. >>
Israel says it targeted militants preparing to fire a rocket amid fighting that threatens to unravel a 5-month-old cease-fire. Later, a rocket from Gaza lands near a home in southern Israel. >>
Hijackings are just the latest danger Kenyans face in a profession that has suffered under two decades of neglect and exploitation. >>
ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD
Conservative Muslims may find it harder to rally opposition to a U.S. led by a multicultural, charismatic president. He could also inspire an Internet-based revolt. >>
Marques I. Knight had a tough childhood. As his sister, Summer, recalled, their parents died when they were both young in Alabama. >>
Gaza Strip: Border closure depletes food supplies / Somalia: Rebels take another port town / Iran: State TV says spies detained / Mexico: 1,500 protest Tijuana violence >>
The U.S. ally's finance chief says the International Monetary Fund agreed to the bailout after endorsing plans to tackle the country's huge budget and trade deficits. >>
Nouri Maliki had not publicly backed the deal to extend U.S. mandate. His support comes after the U.S. accepts key conditions, among them that troops leave Iraqi cities by next summer. >>
COLUMN ONE
In an impoverished Tehran district, a hairdresser-turned-activist helps girls and women help themselves through books, health workshops and civic action. >>
A fuel shortage shuts down the electricity plant. Relief supplies also are blocked from entering the Gaza Strip, leaving a U.N. agency without food for the Palestinian territory's many needy families. >>
The rebel group seeks to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, in Somalia. >>
Once the mightiest of Shiite militias, the Mahdi Army finds itself on the run as rivals benefit from government ties and U.S. backing. Efforts to reorganize into a socio-religious group may not help. >>
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