The retrial of a wealthy former legislator for the murder of a Lebanese pop singer raised questions about what role political connections played in the appeal.

John Shirreffs, the trainer of the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Zenyatta, says he will send out another one of his star females to challenge a field made up mostly of boys in the $10 million Dubai World Cup.

At least two suspects in the killing of a Hamas official in a hotel here in January traveled to the United States afterward, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

A police statement gives new details about a January assassination that has been widely attributed to Israel’s intelligence service, though Israel has not acknowledged involvement.

The police in Dubai released the names of 15 more suspects in the killing of a senior Hamas operative in a Dubai hotel room, expanding the range of an investigation.

Dubai is hunting for at least 26 people over the killing of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel in a suspected Israeli operation that has caused a diplomatic furor.

The condemnation avoided implicating Israel, which has been accused of planning the attack on Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founder of Hamas’s armed wing.

Increasingly, it has seemed in recent days, this is a time of secret wars unfolding in dark places beyond public disclosure, defined in terms of faith and survival.

As diplomatic strains deepened, Britain and Ireland called in Israel’s ambassador to Britain over the use of faked British passports by a hit team in Dubai last month.

As diplomatic strains deepened, the Foreign Office called in Israel’s ambassador to Britain over the use of faked British passports by a hit team in Dubai last month.