The Middle East was the third area that we focused on today.
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However, scientists think this interbreeding could have occurred outside Europe, in the eastern Mediterranean or Middle East region (the area archaeologists call the "Levant"), and quite probably even deeper in time - some 80, 000-90, 000 years or so ago.
One of the those Arab officials at the meeting, the Egyptian Finance Minister Medhat Hassanein, said afterwards in a BBC interview that a Middle East and US free trade area, even one including Israel, is a eventually a possibility, but only if there is first what he called a just peace in the region.
On the pro side is the fact that the Golan has been the most peaceful area of the Middle East for the last 20 years.
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Petraeus, who took over Friday as head of U.S. Central Command, is overseeing his own review across the 20 countries that make up the command's area of operations in the Middle East and Asia.
The leaked memo reportedly reflects the views of a significant number of senior and mid-level officers in Centcom, including large numbers of intelligence officers, as well as a significant number of area analysts stationed in the Middle East.
The largest area stretches from Saharan Africa across the Middle East and Central Asia into parts of China.
Financial linkages are less important in CIS countries and in the Middle East and north Africa, but a deeper euro-area recession will batter export industries there, too.
Orientalist paintings, as they are called, refer to 19th century images of the Orient, an area roughly corresponding to the present-day Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
Today, General Lloyd Austin became the first African-American to lead the U.S. Central Command, which has a wide-ranging area of responsibility for 20 countries in the Middle East and southwest Asia.
The ship carried a Navy mobile security team that is authorized to respond to perceived threats, as do all military-contracted ships in the 5th Fleet's area of command in the waters surrounding the turbulent Middle East and East Africa, the Navy said.
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Although initial reaction to Mr. Freeman's selection has focused on his views of the Middle East, that region is by no means Mr. Freeman's only area of interest.
There are about 300, 000 ethnic Arabs in the Detroit metropolitan area, the biggest concentration of Arabs anywhere in the world outside the Middle East.
"We are attempting to go in the affected area again today, " said Hicham Hassan, the Syrian Observatory's spokesman for the Middle East.
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