Sex trumps torture and corruption

Paul McGeough This is about carnal relations, not global security - got it? We're talking sex, so if you're looking for heavy breathing about ethics and morality, move on, turn the page.

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Obama changes course between courses

Paul McGeough For a time there, it looked like business as usual in the Middle East.

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Rash Israel lights Arab Spring powder keg

Paul McGeough The Middle East this week? Think Colorado in July and the movie megaplex massacre.

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Bibi the fall guy as Barack wins the lot

Paul McGeough Moscow's thinking on the new Obama line-up comes discreetly, deniably.

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Rebels bank on Aleppo as new Benghazi

Paul McGeough Let's get real. The Syrian conflict is a war, not a French-knitting circle.

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Brass hue to silver lining of a new Egypt

Paul McGeough An all's-well presumption in some quarters on the Egyptian presidential election is bizarre.

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Why Obama faces a hopeless war in Syria

Paul McGeough ''Sensible'' doesn't cut it when women and children are being murdered on YouTube.

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Authoritarian habits prove hard to break

Paul McGeough If the rise of the Egyptian Islamists gives us a few laughs, the refusal by the Cairo generals to relinquish power is the stuff of tears.

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A fledgling democracy needs support, not suspicion

Paul McGeough AS IF they do not have enough on their plate, the biggest challenge for Egyptians after dislodging Hosni Mubarak is to prove that their uprising is not a repeat of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which...