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Cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted in New York
NEW YORK - Authorities in New York are claiming to have busted a multi-million cigarette smuggling ring and arrested at least 16 Palestinian immigrants having alleged links with known terror organisations. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Thursday said that the 16 members of the criminal ring in New York City, Albany County and Schenectady County ...
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First create Palestinian state then peace
First create a Palestinian state, and then make peace, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday in Washington, in a reversal of the conventional wisdom regarding what is needed to achieve an Israeli- Palestinian agreement.Erdogan, who called Hamas as well as Fatah his "brothers," said during the question and answer period following an address at the Brookings ...
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El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state
El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state Palestine-El Salvador, Politics, 8/26/2011 El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian officials. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the president of El Salvador for the recognition, expressing hope that it will bolster bilateral relations. Foreign Minister Riyad Malki had ...
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Gandhian protest is more relevant in Palestine Shaath
Gandhian protest is 'more relevant' in Palestine: Shaath Palestine-India, Politics, 8/26/2011 Terming the Gandhian way of protest as "more relevant" in Palestine, its ambassador Nabeel Shaath yesterday said Mahatma Gandhi has inspired the new generation in his homeland to carry out their struggle in a non-violent way. IRNA reported him saying the "Gandhian formula ...
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China Announces Its Full Support of Palestinian Move Date 2482011 Time 2334
China Announces Its Full Support of Palestinian Move Date : 24/8/2011 Time : 23:34 Palestine-China, Politics, 8/26/2011 The Chinese Middle East envoy to the peace process, Wu Sike, transferred on Wednesday a message from the Chinese leadership confirming China's full support for the Palestinian UN bid in a meeting with Presidential General Secretary, Tayyeb Abdul Rahim, in the ...
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Five palestinians killed 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
Five palestinians killed, 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/26/2011 Five Palestinians were killed and 22 were injured at dawn yesterday in two Israeli air strikes targeting a sports club in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza, and a tunnel in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Israeli F16 warplanes bombed the sports club, located in a ...
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Reporters Without Borders condemns mistreatment of Palestinian journalists
Reporters Without Borders condemns mistreatment of Palestinian journalists Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/26/2011 Reporters Without Borders reported Tuesday about what it described as "the complete failure to punish abusive treatment of Palestinian journalists by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank." It said in a statement that Israel carried out "many arbitrary ...
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Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike
Two Palestinians have been killed in air strikes on the Gaza Strip after they had clashed with Israeli troops crossing into the territory, medical sources ...
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Excerpts Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influencein Egypt Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013
Excerpts: Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influence in Egypt? Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013 +++SOURCE:The Syria Report 13 ...
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The Bank of Israel will purchase foreign exchange in order to offset theeffect of natural gas production on the exchange rate
The Bank of Israel will purchase foreign exchange in order to offset the effect of natural gas production on the exchange rate 13/05/2013 Natural gas production in Israel is causing an improvement in the current account, which is leading to appreciation pressures on the shekel. This phenomenon, often referred to ...
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The West Bank Wall What Life Is Like For Palestinians And Israelis Divided By The Barrier
JERUSALEM -- From Al-Walajah, a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium, one of the venues for the European Under-21 Football Cup in June, is only a few hundred meters away. But this village on a hill couldn't be further from the city and the international audiences watching games broadcast from so close. Soon, it will be enclosed by the separation ...
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2 journalists say Palestinian Authority interrogated them
Two Palestinian journalists said they were detained and questioned this week by the Palestinian authority, despite a promise to respect freedom of the press. One of the journalists, a documentary filmmaker, said he was forced to reveal the passwords to his personal email and Facebook page, the Jerusalem Post reported. Haroun Abu Arrah said he was questioned for more than 2 hours by agents of ...
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Israelis Palestinians battle over access to religious site
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian protesters Saturday near a mosque in East Jerusalem, Palestinian officials said. Israeli security forces arrested five people and fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets on Palestinians protesting an Israeli decision to close Aqsa Mosque to Muslims Thursday and Friday in Jerusalem's Old City so ultraorthodox Jews could enter the compound to ...
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Sheep attack hiker on Israel National Trail
A hiker was hospitalized after a sheep attacked him Saturday on the Israel National Trail, authorities said. The attack occurred near Kfar Qara, south of Haifa, Ynetnews.com reported. The hiker, a 56-year-old man, was conscious and was able to call for help on his cellphone. Paramedics treated the hiker at the scene and he was then transported to the Hillel Yaffa Hospital in Hadeera. He had ...
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Assad Israel supporting terror groups in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "directly supporting terrorist groups" in Syria, referring to rebels fighting against his regime, in an exclusive interview with Argentinian ...
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Egypt keeps Gaza border closed due to kidnapping
CAIRO - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said.The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the ...
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Israel warns against Russian arms supply to Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Saturday that advanced weapons supplied by Russia to war-torn Syria could end up in the wrong hands and be used against the Jewish ...
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AP PHOTOS Palestinians in Egypt village exhibit consequences of 65 years of mass displacement
In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo, Palestinian refugee Sulaiman al-Namodi, 92, sits outside of his house in Gezirat al-Fadel village, Sharqiya, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat al-Fadel say they have it ...
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Is Obama already a lame duck president
It is not a comparison that many people thought would ever get much traction. But, assailed this week by multiple scandals and at the mercy of a furious press, President Obama has endured a legion of pundits wondering if he is the 21st-century Richard Nixon - and whether his second term is already a lame-duck disaster. Certainly conservative writers have leapt at the idea that the now ...
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Bashar al-Assad ‘We can’t negotiate with fragmented rebels’
‘s reporter Marcelo Cantelmi from the library of his palace, said that a continuing lack of unity between the myriad rebel groups meant that opposition leaders would be unable to implement any ceasefire measures agreed at a summit, such as surrendering arms. ';They are not a single entity,'; he said. ';They are different groups and bands, not dozens but hundreds. They are a ...
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Palestinian activists sue Israel for the return of 6000 books
Anahid Melikian, left, and her niece Anahid Melikian Helewa have tried to find out about their family's books from the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa. Marianne Helm for The ...
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Gaza tunnel collapse kills Palestinian
A smuggler carries food from Kentucky Fried Chicken to be delivered through an underground tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, on May 13, 2013 in Rafah. AFP ...
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‘Israel prefers Bashar al Assad to Islamist rebels’
A weakened Bashar Assad is preferable for Syria and the whole region, to a takeover by rebel forces increasingly ruled by Islamic extremists, Israeli officials said overnight Friday-Saturday. "Better the devil we know than the demons we can only imagine if Syria falls into chaos and the extremists from across the Arab world gain a foothold ...
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Israel-Syria tensions reminder of pre-1967 war period says ex-intel chief
Underlining growing concerns over friction between Jerusalem and Damascus, the highly-respected former head of the Israeli army's Military Intelligence hierarchy on Friday compared current Israeli-Syrian tensions to the strains that presaged the 1967 Israel-Arab war. He also said Moscow, by continuing to stand by President Bashar Assad, was signaling to that it was not going to let the US ...
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U.S. should heed Russia include Iran in Syria talks
After opposing the inclusion of Iran in negotiations over Syria for more than two years, the administration of US President Barack Obama may finally decide to change course. Secretary of State John Kerry, appearing on Wednesday, May 15, at ...
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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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