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Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah Wednesday to bid farewell to their most famous poet and the author of their declaration of independence.
Mahmoud Darwish died at a United States hospital on Friday following open heart surgery. He was 67.
His coffin arrived in a Jordanian helicopter from Amman at the headquarters of Palestinian... |
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Syrian intelligence authorities released four
Syrian human rights activists, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
said Tuesday. The rights group said Syrian authorities on
Monday released Kays Ahmad Ali, arrested on April 2, 2008; and Hamman
Haddad, Barhouz Sharif Youssef, and Hussein Mulla Ahmad, arrested on
May 5, 2008. The...
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Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is to travel to Washington Tuesday night for another round of peace negotiations
with Palestinians under the auspices of US officials scheduled for
Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Former
Palestinian premier Ahmed Qureia would represent the Palestinian side
in the three-way talks...
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Turkish police continued investigations
Tuesday into a bomb blast on Sunday in Istanbul that killed 17 people
and injured more than 150 with officials pointing the blame at the
separatist Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), charges the PKK have denied.
As the families of the dead continued funeral preparations police
were seeking a man...
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An Israeli lawyer has asked the country's
attorney-general to probe a newspaper that published the contents of a
note US Democratic Party presidential hopeful left at the Western Wall
in Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post daily reported Monday.
Attorney Shahar Alon has also called for a commercial boycott of the
Ma'ariv newspaper,...
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The death toll of attacks on Shiite pilgrims
in Baghdad carried out in quick succession by three female suicide
bombers on Monday rose to at least 25, while another suicide bombing
targeting crowds at a protest in Kirkuk caused seven fatalities.
An Iraqi military spokesman, Qasim Atta, confirmed that three women
wearing explosive...
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 Violent fighting erupted on Thursday in southern Afghanistan when scores of Taliban rebels
assailed an Afghan Army convoy on the main highway, south of the capital Kabul, the New York Times
reported. Afghan authorities declared that the Taliban insurgents were also
beaten by soldiers and police officers, and that 35 attackers were...
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A state security court in Sana'a imposed a media gag order Monday in the trial of three opposition leaders charged with stirring up violent protests in southern Yemen earlier this year.Presiding judge Muhssien Alwan issued the order at the start of the second hearing into the case, saying that the gag order applied to both local and...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown received a red carpet welcome in Israel on Sunday, with President Shimon Peres calling him 'one of the most respected leaders of our time in my judgement.'Brown's visit to Israel is his first since he took office a year ago. He is scheduled to hold talks with both Israeli and Palestinian officials,...
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Released prisoner Samir Kuntar accused Israel
late Thursday of fabricating the story of how he killed the
four-year-old daughter of an Israeli man in 1979. 'Israel has
fabricated the story about how I killed the child during the attack I
carried out in 1979,' Kuntar told the Hezbollah- run Al Manar
television. He said that he...
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Lebanese Sunni leader Saad Hariri met Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Thursday during a rather
calm day in Iraq after a deadly explosion that took place north of the
capital the night before. According to the Voices of Iraq
(VOI) news agency, the Shiite Iraqi leader congratulated Hariri on the
formation of a...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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