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Iran executes two alleged spies
Iranian authorities have executed two men after they were charged and convicted for spying Israel and the United States. Iran has repeatedly accused Israel and the U.S. of carrying out covert intelligence operations following ongoing pressure on the country over its nuclear programme, which the Western nations suspect as being used to build an atomic weapon, despite Tehran's insistence that the ...
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Egyptian Police Block Israel Border Crossing in Fury at Kidnapping
CAIRO Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday, security sources said. Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim ...
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Netanyahu Takes Aim at Weapons Leakage in Syria
JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli sources say it has ...
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Israel to keep preventing arms transfer to Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government remains committed to prevent transfer of the advanced weaponry to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. "We are acting in accordance with the policy we had set to prevent as much as possible the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu as saying Sunday. "The Israeli ...
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Lebanon president denies receiving a warning from Israel
Lebanon President Michel Suleiman denied on Monday receiving a warning from Israel that it would destroy Lebanon in case of a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state. The denial came after an Israeli website reported that Tel Aviv has sent a warning to Lebanon through the U.S. administration that it would "take Lebanon 50 years backwards" if Hezbollah attacked ...
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Gunman and 4 others dead in Israeli bank robbery gone wrong
Israeli security gather outside following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheva, on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police said. (DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty ...
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The killing of Mohammed al-Durrah in Gaza became the defining image of the second intifada. Only Israel claims it was all a fake
One of the most evocative and shocking episodes of the second Intifada, the shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli army, was staged. Indeed, Mohammed al-Durrah was not even injured in the incident. Those, at least, are the findings of an investigation by the Israeli government, published today, which has described the case as a "blood libel on the state of ...
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Palestinian film of love and betrayal breaks new ground at Cannes
CANNES (Reuters) - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema ...
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Threats daubed at Israeli woman prayer activists home
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Threatening slogans were daubed on Monday outside the doorway of an Israeli activist in a Jewish women's prayer group seeking equal rights of worship for women at Jerusalem's holy Western ...
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Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone
Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone GAZA - Palestinian Government in Gaza announced that the tunnels between Egypt and Gaza were closed, and the border was declared as a military zone."The tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, where the smuggling and shipment of some goods were made, were closed, and the border was declared as a closed military ...
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Turkey has begun 5th Mavi Marmara flotilla trial of 4 top Israeli commanders blamed for a deadly 2010 clash on a Turkish flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza
Turkey has begun 5th Mavi Marmara flotilla trial of 4 top Israeli commanders blamed for a deadly 2010 clash on a Turkish flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza ISTANBUL - A Turkish court has launched on Monday fifth trial of Mavi Marmara flotilla trial of four top Israeli commanders accused of a deadly 2010 raid on a Turkish flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.The accused ...
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Israel said to be world leader in UAV exports
Israel's high-tech defense industry leads the world in exporting unmanned aerial vehicles, a new study says, while UAV designers are reported to be moving toward developing drones so advanced they could replace manned aircraft. The international business consultancy Frost and Sullivan reports that over the last eight years Israeli manufacturers have sold UAVs worth more than $4.6 billion. ...
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Pope Meets with President Shimon Peres of Israel
Discuss Concerns Regarding Current Political and Social Situation in the Middle EastVATICAN CITY, April 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis met this morning with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. Shortly after, President Peres met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, who was accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for ...
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5 dead in bank robbery mystery in Israel
5 dead in bank robbery? A gunmen shot four people in a bank, took a hostage, and then killed himself. Early reports said it was a bank robbery, but Israeli police are not so ...
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U.S. pays Israeli firm to supply Arab militaries
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON -- In an unprecedented step, an Israeli subsidiary has been contracted by the United States to supply equipment to Arab militaries. The U.S. Defense Department has awarded the U.S. subsidiary of Elbit Systems a contract to supply aircraft components to such Arab League states as Iraq and Kuwait. The $31 million contract to Vision Systems International ...
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Palestinian Authority arrests journalists critical of Abbas despite ‘guaranteed’ rights
Special to WorldTribune.com RAMALLAH -- The Palestinian Authority, despite appeals from Western donors, continues its crackdown on the media in the West Bank. PA security forces have been arresting Palestinian journalists on charges of insulting chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Opposition sources said the arrests were conducted by the Preventive Security Apparatus and General Intelligence ...
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Shooting of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura staged claims Israeli report - video
Middle east editor Ian Black discusses the Israeli report into the death of Muhammad al-Dura, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in Gaza in 2000. The report concludes that there was no evidence to suggest that the Israeli Defence Force was responsible, and that there were grounds to believe that the event was staged for cameras. The cameraman who filmed the notorious images claims he was ...
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Israeli police think twice over robbery as motive for bank shootout
Police in Israel are investigating a shootout at a bank in the southern city of Be’er Sheva in which a man killed four people before turning his gun on himself. The assailant is said to have been local, Jewish and in his 40s. But what was at first thought to have been a bungled attempted robbery, police now think may have been a dispute over the refusal of a loan. The incident drew ...
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Five dead in bungled Israel bank raid
An Israeli woman is taken out of a bank in the town of Beersheba, southern Israel, on Monday after an attempted robbery in which at least five people were ...
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Iran hangs spies it says worked for US Israel
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media in early May as he registered his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election in Tehran, Iran. On Sunday, Iran hung two convicted spies, ahead of the June 14 presidential election. ...
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Barbra Streisand to receive honorary PhD in Israel
JERUSALEM -; A leading Israeli university says it will present singer Barbra Streisand with an honorary Ph.D. when she visits Israel next ...
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The Problem with Partition Human Rights Provide an Alternative for Israel and the Palestinians
"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is ...
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Israeli Doctors Save Syrian Toddler
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli pediatric surgeons corrected congenital heart defects on a four-year-old Syrian girl at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on ...
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Official Israeli-Palestinian Talks to Resume Soon
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Secretary of State John Kerry plans to return to Israel in two weeks to keep the momentum up for restarting peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. According to one Israeli official quoted ...
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As many as 40 names to be on Iranian ballot
There may be as many as 40 candidates on the ballot when Iranians vote June 14 to select their next president, a Guardian Council spokesman said. At least 600 people registered to compete in Iranian presidential elections. Any Iranian national with political or clerical credentials can register, though qualifications are vetted by the 12-member Guardian Council. Council ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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