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Reconciliation talks to resume if Fatah releases prisoners
A Hamas official said his group will resume reconciliation talks with rival Fatah if that group releases all imprisoned Hamas members, a newspaper reported Friday. "If (Palestinian President) Abu Mazen released the prisoners and stopped his security measures, talks would start immediately," Mussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of...

Reconciliation talks to resume if Fatah releases prisoners

Hamas delegation in Cairo for national unity talks
A delegation of senior members of the Palestinian group Hamas arrived in Cairo Tuesday for talks with Egyptian officials aimed at ending the Hamas-Fatah power struggle in Gaza and the West Bank and achieving Palestinian national reconciliation. Headed by Musa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, the delegation is...

Hamas delegation in Cairo for national unity talks

Arab foreign ministers wring hands over Palestinian feud
Arab League foreign ministers have expressed exasperation at the continued impasse between factions in the Palestinian Territories. This emerged Tuesday after the ministers late Monday ended a one- day meeting in Cairo chaired by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al- Faisal. While political division in the Palestinian Territories...

Arab foreign ministers wring hands over Palestinian feud
 

Hamas frees Fatah prisoners ahead of Cairo unity talks
Extending an olive branch to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of unity talks in Cairo next month, the Islamic Hamas movement released 17 members of the president's Fatah movement it had detained in the Gaza Strip in July. The 17 were among dozens of Fatah activists arrested by Hamas police after a car bomb killed five Hamas...

Hamas frees Fatah prisoners ahead of Cairo unity talks

Abbas, Olmert to meet for last time before Israel's Kadima primary
 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday evening, for their last talks before his ruling Kadima party chooses a new leader. The parley would be business as usual, senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, adding the Palestinians would work with Israel's prime...

Abbas, Olmert to meet for last time before Israel's Kadima primary

Israeli defence minister arrives in Egypt for talks with Mubarak
Israeli Defencse Minister Ehud Barak arrived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Tuesday, to continue talks with the Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak. Talks are to focus on the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, kidnapped by Hamas-linked militants in June 2006. The situation in the Gaza strip and the...

Israeli defence minister arrives in Egypt for talks with Mubarak

Israel holds 8,500 Palestinian security prisoners: B'Tselem
Israel currently holds some 8,500 Palestinian security prisoners in its jails, a spokeswoman for the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said Monday. As of July 30, the number of Palestinian security prisoners in the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) stood at 8,472, B'Tselem said. They include 5,176 Palestinians serving a sentence,...

Israel holds 8,500 Palestinian security prisoners: B'Tselem

Gunmen burn down Gaza beachfront resort
Unknown militants stormed a Gaza Strip beach resort early Wednesday and burned it down, after handcuffing three security guards, witnesses and security sources said. The militants left the Ebad al-Rahman resort after confiscating three computers, the sources added. The resort, which opened this summer, is located in the...

Gunmen burn down Gaza beachfront resort

Israel prepares to transfer Fatah Gaza refugees to West Bank
Israeli is preparing to transfer to the West Bank Palestinian Fatah activists who fled internecine fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Ministry said Monday. The move comes amid fierce inter-Palestinian clashes in the Strip between Fatah and Hamas, which administers the enclave. It overturns a previous decision made at...

Israel prepares to transfer Fatah Gaza refugees to West Bank

PA, Hamas continue back and forth arrest of leaders
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continued their back-and-forth arrests of top party leaders Friday, capping a week of detentions sparked by a car explosion in the Gaza Strip that killed five Hamas militants and a girl. Hamas blamed Fatah for the blast; Fatah said the explosion was due to...

PA, Hamas continue back and forth arrest of leaders

Abbas warns Israel against freeing Hamas lawmakers
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged Israel not to release jailed Hamas legislators as part of a deal to free an Israeli soldier held in Gaza Strip, the Ha'aretz daily reported Wednesday. According to the Israeli newspaper, Abbas even threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) if Israel did release them. It...

Abbas warns Israel against freeing Hamas lawmakers

Tony Blair cancels visit to Gaza
Former British prime minister Tony Blair cancelled a visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for Tuesday morning, Israel Radio reported. The radio would give no reason, but one official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Israeli authorities had warned Blair at the last minute of new intelligence information from Gaza, as he was...

Tony Blair cancels visit to Gaza

Palestinian official: Swap will include 160 Fatah bodies
The head of the Palestinian Fatah movement in southern Lebanon said Sunday that the expected swap between Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla movement and Israel will include the bodies of Palestinian guerrillas who fell in Lebanon or carried out attacks inside Israeli territories during the 1970s. 'Among the bodies that Lebanon will...

Palestinian official: Swap will include 160 Fatah bodies

Bomb explodes in car of Palestinian attorney-general
A small bomb exploded in the car of Palestinian Attorney-General Ahmad Mughani as he drove away early Tuesday from his home in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, police said. Police spokesman Adnan Damiri said the incident was under investigation and several suspect were being interrogated. The small device, hidden in the...

Bomb explodes in car of Palestinian attorney-general

Carter's Meeting with Hamas Leader in Syria
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Khalid Meshaal, an exiled leader of Hamas, and his deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk met again on Saturday morning. Carter, the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, went to Syria to talk with leaders of the militant group Hamas and the unusual visit was considered a study mission and a part of U.S.'s...

Carter's Meeting with Hamas Leader in Syria

Cheney Says Hamas Trying to “Torpedo” Peace
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that Palestinian militant group Hamas is trying to “torpedo” the Middle East peace talks, along with Syria and Iran. “There is evidence that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and they are doing everything they can do to torpedo the peace process,” Cheney declared quoted by...

Cheney Says Hamas Trying to “Torpedo” Peace

Israel Intensifies Air Strikes and Raids on Gaza, 17 Killed
During an Israeli army raid carried out early Thursday morning on the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city, two Palestinian gunmen were killed in a fire exchange in Nablus according to the local hospital officials.Several other Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air strikes.The sound of gun fire broke the silence of...

Israel Intensifies Air Strikes and Raids on Gaza, 17 Killed

Hamas Calls On EU To Determine Israel To Lift Embargo Over Gaza
Hamas asked the European Union on Friday to pressure on Israel to put an end to the economic and military blockade of the Gaza Strip. Gaza has been ruled by Hamas Islamists since June, when Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were expelled. “We urge the European Union not to limit its action to purely...

Hamas Calls On EU To Determine Israel To Lift Embargo Over Gaza

Israeli Forces Launch More Aistrikes in Gaza
Israel launched three more airstrikes Friday, targeting also Gaza City's Hamas-run Interior Ministry, in response to three days of escalating violence during which Palestinian militants fired at least 130 rockets and mortar shells at the Jewish state. A 52-year-old woman was killed and at least 46 people were injured in the strike...

Israeli Forces Launch More Aistrikes in Gaza

Israeli Air Strike Kills Five Palestinians in Gaza Strip (Update)
Five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were killed in two Israeli Israeli airstrikes Thursday, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that Israel will not continue to "suffer unending Qassam rocket fire" from the salient. The second airstrike, in the evening, killed three people, including a mother and her son, as well as a...

Israeli Air Strike Kills Five Palestinians in Gaza Strip (Update)

Israeli Troops Kill At Least 19 Palestinians in Northern Gaza (Update)
Israeli troops rolled into northern Gaza Tuesday, sparking the deadliest fighting with local militants in more than a year and killing at least 19 Palestinians, including two killed in the evening in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip. Another 45 people were injured, 12 of them seriously, hospital officials said. Taher...

Israeli Troops Kill At Least 19 Palestinians in Northern Gaza (Update)

Fatah Accuses Bush of Violating UN Resolution
The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday accused US President George W Bush of violating United Nations resolution 194 on the return of Palestinian refugees and the payment to them of compensation. According to Azzam al-Ahmad, the chief of the Fatah parliamentary bloc, Bush has offered just to...

Fatah Accuses Bush of Violating UN Resolution

Six Palestinian Militants Killed in Gaza Clash (Update)
Tensions surrounding the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip heightened Wednesday, as Israel killed six Palestinian gunmen in a military raid, and also expressed fury at Egypt for opening its border with Gaza to allow the return of hundreds of stranded pilgrims. The Gaza-Egypt border crossing of Rafah has been shut down since the radical...

Six Palestinian Militants Killed in Gaza Clash (Update)

Security Forces Arrested 14 Hamas Members in West Bank
Palestinian security forces arrested 14 members of Hamas as part of a West Bank crackdown on the Islamic movement, Hamas said Saturday. The detentions took place in Hebron and Nablus, Hamas added in the statement. In June, Hamas took over Gaza Strip after routing forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. As a result,...

Security Forces Arrested 14 Hamas Members in West Bank

Two Israelis Killed in Southern West Bank
Palestinian gunmen shot dead two Israeli settlers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron Friday, before one of them was shot dead himself and the second wounded in an ensuing fire- fight, Israel Radio reported. The two gunmen opened fire at a group of Israelis as they were hiking in a valley near the city, police spokesman...

Two Israelis Killed in Southern West Bank

Abbas, Olmert Seek "Common Ground"
Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Thursday afternoon, in the shadow of a row over Israeli settlement building which has prevented progress in two rounds of talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators. An Israeli official said the two men would attempt to find "common ground" in...

Abbas, Olmert Seek "Common Ground"

Israel Will Not Build New Neighbourhood in East Jerusalem
Israel said Friday that it had sent a message to US Ambassador Richard Jones in Tel Aviv, reassuring him that it will not build a new Jewish neighbourhood in a northern area of occupied East Jerusalem. Israel, meanwhile, denied that it was holding indirect contacts with the radical Islamic Hamas movement over a truce in Gaza, as...

Israel Will Not Build New Neighbourhood in East Jerusalem

Donors at Paris Conference Pledge Billions to Palestinians
Donors at a key international conference in Paris pledged hundreds of millions of US dollars Monday to help boost moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his effort to resuscitate his ailing economy. By mid-day, donations had reached at least 2 billion US dollars, nearly half the sum asked for by the Palestinians. EU...

Donors at Paris Conference Pledge Billions to Palestinians

Hamas Supporters Take to the Streets on 20th Anniversary (Update)
Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader in Gaza, on Saturday said his movement would not concede the right of return for Palestinians as tens of thousands of Hamas supporters gathered in Gaza city to mark the Islamic movement's 20th anniversary. "No to making concessions on the right of return - and there can be no such thing as a...

Hamas Supporters Take to the Streets on 20th Anniversary (Update)

Explosion Kills Four in Gaza City
At least four people died and more than 30 were injured Friday when a grenade exploded during a funeral procession in Gaza City, prompting Fatah to accuse Hamas and again raising tensions between the two rival Palestinian movements. The heightened tensions come a day before Hamas is to mark 20 years since the radical Islamic...

Explosion Kills Four in Gaza City

Lebanon Mourns Assassinated Army General
Lebanon observed a day of national mourning Friday as the funeral took place of Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, whose assassination earlier in the week deepened the political crisis in the country. Wrapped in a Lebanese flag, the coffin of al-Hajj, who was killed on Wednesday by a car bomb, was taken from his family home in...

Lebanon Mourns Assassinated Army General

US President Condemns Slaying of Lebanese General
US President George W Bush on Thursday condemned the assassination of a Lebanese general and called on Syria to put an end to tactics aimed at intimidating the Lebanese people. The killing of Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj and his bodyguard by a bomb in Beirut Wednesday came two days after parliament postponed the presidential...

US President Condemns Slaying of Lebanese General

Blast Kills Lebanese Army General (Update)
A senior Lebanese army officer was killed along with his bodyguard in a rush-hour explosion in eastern Beirut on Wednesday morning, sending shock waves across a country already mired in political deadlock. Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj was killed in front of a municipal government building near the presidential palace in...

Blast Kills Lebanese Army General (Update)

Israeli Army Kills Three Militants in Gaza
An Israeli aircraft fired a missile near the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya Wednesday morning, killing two Palestinian militants and a civilian, hospital officials said. The militants belonged to the radical Islamic Hamas movement ruling Gaza. Five other people were wounded, two of them seriously, said Mo'awyea Hassanein,...

Israeli Army Kills Three Militants in Gaza

Israel to Release More Prisoners as 199 Palestinians Leave Gaza
Israel will release 429 Palestinian prisoners Monday morning, a spokesman for the Israel Prison Service said. Meanwhile, 199 Palestinians were allowed Sunday out of the Gaza Strip to travel abroad. However, Marwan Barghouti, considered the highest ranking Palestinian in Israeli jails, called the prisoner release a...

Israel to Release More Prisoners as 199 Palestinians Leave Gaza

Israeli Forces Kill Five Hamas Militants in Gaza
Five Islamic Hamas militants were killed and seven wounded before dawn Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip in missile strikes by Israeli aircraft, medics and witnesses said. Hamas sources said that five militants from the groups armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, were killed and seven wounded in an airstrike carried out by Israeli...

Israeli Forces Kill Five Hamas Militants in Gaza

Hundreds Of Palestinians Protest Against Annapolis Conference
Opponents of the international Mideast conference being held in Annapolis, Maryland, took to the streets Tuesday, battling police in Ramallah and loudly cheering declarations in Gaza never to recognise Israel's right to exist. Police fired in the air and threw tear gas at demonstrators in Ramallah as they tried to break up a...

Hundreds Of Palestinians Protest Against Annapolis Conference

Israel Allows Weapon Shipment
Local media reports say that Israel said on Wednesday that it had authorized a shipment of 25 armored vehicles and 1,000 rifles to bolster a promised Palestinian police crackdown on armed militants in the West Bank. The shipment was proposed by Russia two years ago but stalled by Israeli opposition. Approval of the plan is aimed at...

Israel Allows Weapon Shipment

Israel to Release 441 Palestinians Despite Differences Over Joint Statement
Israel said Monday it will stop building new settlements and will release 441 Palestinian prisoners ahead of an upcoming meeting on the Middle East conflict, but Palestinians said the sides are still unable to agree on a joint document they hope to present to the parley. With the conference due to start in one week, the sides have...

Israel to Release 441 Palestinians Despite Differences Over Joint Statement

Palestinian Militants Fire Rockets Into Israel
The military wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement claimed responsibility Saturday for firing rockets into southern Israel as the United Nations body for Palestinian refugees expressed concerns over Israeli plans to reduce electricity to the Gaza Strip. Israeli radio reported three home-made missiles landed...

Palestinian Militants Fire Rockets Into Israel

Abbas Urges Palestinians to Overthrow the Hamas Regime
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Thursday for the ouster of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, in his strongest statements against the Islamic movement since it seized control of the salient in mid-June. "We have to bring down this bunch of people who took over the Gaza Strip by force," he said in a...

Abbas Urges Palestinians to Overthrow the Hamas Regime

Hamas Imposes New Restrictions on Journalists in Gaza
The Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip has decided to toughen the access journalists will have to its leaders, or to events organized by the organization, officials in the office of deposed prime minister Ismail Haniya said Wednesday. The officials, who spoke on conditions of anonymity, said the Hamas administration has...

Hamas Imposes New Restrictions on Journalists in Gaza

Five Die In Gunfire at Gaza Fatah Rally
According to local officials and a local medic, gunfire killed at least five people on Monday at a Fatah memorial rally for Yasser Arafat that drew hundreds of thousands of supporters of the defeated faction in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. A sea of yellow Fatah flags had filled a Gaza square for the biggest assembly Palestinian...

Five Die In Gunfire at Gaza Fatah Rally

Police Discovers Explosive Devices in West Bank
Palestinian police on Saturday discovered explosive devices stored in the West Bank city of Nablus, a police chief said. Colonel Ahmed al-Sharqawi, director of Nablus police, said his forces discovered the explosives in the Old City district two days after a municipal worker was killed and a second wounded in a mysterious explosion...

Police Discovers Explosive Devices in West Bank

Israeli Strike Kills Four In Gaza
According to local officials, four people have died in an Israeli strike on a Hamas-run police station in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Palestinians say. The Israeli military said in a statement it had targeted a rocket crew position in southern Gaza. It said it attacked "in response to rocket and...

Israeli Strike Kills Four In Gaza

Israel Cuts Power to Gaza
According to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, an upcoming Mideast peace conference would not result in a final deal with the Palestinians and may not take place at all. His government moved closer to a punishing regime of power cuts to the Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket attacks. Israel has consistently played down the...

Israel Cuts Power to Gaza

Car Explodes, Injures Three Hamas Militants
Hamas officials along with local medical workers have reported a car carrying Hamas militants that exploded today, injuring at least three people. Hamas said it believed the blast was caused by a roadside bomb, although it had claimed earlier that the explosion was caused by an Israeli air strike. An Israeli army spokeswoman...

Car Explodes, Injures Three Hamas Militants

Hamas Police and Gaza Clans Fight Again
According to local media, armed clashes between Hamas-run police and a Gaza-based clan started again on Saturday morning after two days of ceasefire, killing a clan member. They said that Mohammed Helles of their family was killed and a number of the family members have been wounded in the new surge of violence between the Helles...

Hamas Police and Gaza Clans Fight Again

Israeli Troops Kill Two Pakistani
According to a Palestinian official, Israeli troops shot dead an elderly Palestinian and an armed fighter after pushing into the West Bank city of Nablus before dawn on Tuesday to make arrests. Around 40 Israeli jeeps and three bulldozers drove into the flashpoint city before dawn, as troops took up position around homes in...

Israeli Troops Kill Two Pakistani

Israel Wages War On Gaza
After numerous attacks from Islamic Jihad groups in the Gaza Strip during the past few days, Israel has finally decidesdto take maters into its own hands and is planning a counter-attack. Israel took the decision after a rocket hit near a day care center in the town of Sderot on Monday. Nobody was hurt but the explosion scared...

Israel Wages War On Gaza

Israel Releases around 250 Palestinian Prisoners
Israel released about 250 Palestinian prisoners, mostly from Abbas' Fatah faction, aiming at boosting the authority of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas islamists took over the Gaza Strip."We welcome home our men and women," said senior Abbas aide Saeb Erekat to Reuters. An Israeli Prisons Service spokesman told...

Israel Releases around 250 Palestinian Prisoners

Meeting Between Olmert and Abbas Kicks Off in Jerusalem
Both US and Israel pledged to support the newly-formed government of Mahmoud Abbas for the sake of peace in the region and ending a historical feud between Palestinians and Israel.A new era began on Monday in Jerusalem, where Premier Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Abbas met for the first time after a long period of lagging....

Meeting Between Olmert and Abbas Kicks Off in Jerusalem

Two Soldiers Die as Lebanese Army Resumes Shelling
The Lebanese army resumed its bombardment on Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, two soldiers being reported dead on Saturday.The al-Qaeda inspired militants responded with Katyusha rockets, at least three such projectiles being launched during the morning hours. No casualties were reported, the rockets...

Two Soldiers Die as Lebanese Army Resumes Shelling
 

Hamas says committed to Gaza truce; rocket fire, closure continues
 Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, said Friday his movement remained interested in its informal truce with Israel, which had held for nearly five months, but has been jeopardized by renewed violence over the past two weeks and more. Israel meanwhile kept up a near-total closure of the Gaza Strip Friday for the...

Hamas says committed to Gaza truce; rocket fire, closure continues

Israeli soldiers, Palestinian gunmen clash in southern Gaza
Several Israeli tanks and bulldozers crossed into the south-east Gaza Strip Tuesday morning, sparking clashes with Palestinian gunmen, witnesses and the Israeli military said. The witnesses said that three tanks and two bulldozers rolled some 100 metres across the border east of the town of Rafah. They said the bulldozers were...

Israeli soldiers, Palestinian gunmen clash in southern Gaza

Arab League chief arrives in Damascus
Arab League chief Amr Mussa arrived in Damascus Saturday, where he is expected to discuss with Syrian officials a recent broadcast on Syrian TV where prisoners alleged terrorist ties to Lebanon, Lebanese media reported. The November 6 broadcast showed prisoners confessing to a September bomb blast in Damascus and claiming links exist...

Arab League chief arrives in Damascus

Arab League chief arrives in Damascus
Arab League chief Amr Mussa arrived in Damascus Saturday, where he is expected to discuss with Syrian officials a recent broadcast on Syrian TV where prisoners alleged terrorist ties to Lebanon, Lebanese media reported. The November 6 broadcast showed prisoners confessing to a September bomb blast in Damascus and claiming links exist...

Arab League chief arrives in Damascus

Fatah al-Islam denies involvement in Damascus blast
Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked militant movement, on Monday denied any links with the September 27 bomb attack in the Syrian capital that killed 17 people. "We deny any involvement in the Damascus blast ... and the allegations which were shown on (Syrian) television," Fatah al-Islam said in a statement faxed to the media...

Fatah al-Islam denies involvement in Damascus blast

Lebanese judge issues terrorism arrest warrants
  Lebanese military court investigator Judge Rachid Mezher issued on Friday eight arrest warrants for suspects involved in an explosion that killed five people in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in September. The explosion on September 29 targeted a military bus carrying at least 20 soldiers, leaving at least five dead and 21...

Lebanese judge issues terrorism arrest warrants

Lebanese sceptical of terrorist confessions on Syrian TV
  A Syrian state television broadcast showing people tied to Lebanese organizations confessing to a September Damascus bomb attack is an attempt to smear Lebanese institutions, Lebanese politicians said Friday. The Thursday-night broadcast showed ten men and a woman alleged to be members of the group Fatah al-Islam confessing to...

Lebanese sceptical of terrorist confessions on Syrian TV

Hamas leader in Beirut for talks
 The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas met Monday with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and Premier Fouad Seniora. Syria-based Khaled Mashaal said he "told both Lebanese officials that the internal Palestinian situation was good and affirmed that Hamas supported Lebanese reconciliation." He added that his...

Hamas leader in Beirut for talks

Abbas sacks intelligence chief ahead of Fatah-Hamas talks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sacked his chief of intelligence, Tawfiq Tirawi, officials at his office confirmed Wednesday. Abbas issued a presidential decree, appointing Tirawi, 61, as a security advisor to the president with the rank of minister, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not...

Abbas sacks intelligence chief ahead of Fatah-Hamas talks

Abbas says he will not quit when his term ends
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not quit his post when his term officially ends on January 9, the Ramallah- based al-Ayyam daily reported Monday. The daily quoted Abbas as telling newspaper columnists at his office Sunday night that since the Palestinian election law states that presidential and legislative elections should...

Abbas says he will not quit when his term ends

Positive signals from Egypt-brokered talks, says Palestinian leader
There were positive signals from talks brokered by Egypt with Palestinian factions, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in New Delhi Thursday. Speaking to reporters at the conclusion of a four-day visit to India, Abbas also said a decision on elections in the Palestinian Territories - presidential and legislative -...

Positive signals from Egypt-brokered talks, says Palestinian leader

Explosion kills five, injures 30 in northern Lebanon
At least five people were killed and 30 wounded on Monday in a bomb blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, Lebanese security sources said. Hospital officials said three of those killed were soldiers. At least 30 people who sustained medium and serious injuries had been admitted,...

Explosion kills five, injures 30 in northern Lebanon

Refugee camp blast kills one, wounds 4 in south Lebanon
 An explosion Tuesday ripped through the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el Hilweh in southern Lebanon, killing one person and wounding foru others, Palestinian sources said. The sources inside the camp said Ahmad Qassem was killed and four others were injured in an explosion near the camp's al-Nour Mosque, which is controlled by...

Refugee camp blast kills one, wounds 4 in south Lebanon

Israel's ruling party to chose new leader, replace Olmert
 Members of Israel's ruling Kadima party is choosing a new leader Wednesday to replace discredited Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Some 74,000 registered members of the centrist party are eligible to vote at 114 polling stations placed in 93 different locations throughout the country. Polls are scheduled to open 10 am (0700 GMT) and...

Israel's ruling party to chose new leader, replace Olmert

11 killed in new outbreak of inter-Palestinian clashes
At least 11 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in a fresh outbreak of violent internecine clashes in the Gaza Strip, the worst in more than a month, security officials said. The clashes erupted when Hamas police forces raided a neighbourhood in southern Gaza City before dawn, seeking to arrest members of a powerful local clan, the...

11 killed in new outbreak of inter-Palestinian clashes

Lebanese army confirms death of officer in chopper incident
The Lebanese army command confirmed Thursday that officer Samer Hana was killed when his helicoper came under fire from unknown militants and crashed on landing in southern Lebanon. "Officer Samer Hana was killed when his helicopter was fired at, from militants in the area of Iqlim al Tuffah," said a Lebanese army...

Lebanese army confirms death of officer in chopper incident

Clashes inside Palestinian camp wounds one person
At least one person was wounded Wednesday in clashes that erupted between rival Palestinians inside a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Palestinian sources said. The clashes erupted between the mainstream Fatah faction and extremists from Jund al-Sham in the camp at Ain el-Hilweh, east of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, the...

Clashes inside Palestinian camp wounds one person

Freed Palestinian prisoners head for official welcome
Vehicles containing 198 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons crossed into the Palestinian territories on Monday to cheers and whistles from a watching crowd, under an Israeli prisoner release undertaken as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The vehicles were being driven from the Betyunia checkpoint, near...

Freed Palestinian prisoners head for official welcome

Israel authorizes list of 200 Palestinian prisoners to be freed
An Israeli ministerial committee Monday approved a list with the names of 200 Palestinian militants who will be freed from Israeli prisons later this month, an Israeli official said. The release is a "goodwill gesture" to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, to start this...

Israel authorizes list of 200 Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Jordanian government in talks with Palestinian Hamas group
Head of Jordan's General Intelligence Department on Wednesday met with a delegation representing the hardline Islamic Palestinian Hamas movement in an apparent bid to improve ties, a Jordanian newspaper reported Thursday. The meeting between General Mohammad Dahabi and the delegation, led by Hamas politburo member Mohammad Nazal was...

Jordanian government in talks with Palestinian Hamas group

Israel Cuts Off Electrical Supply in Gaza
Israel announced yesterday that it had cut off 1% of the electricity to Gaza, and it will continue to reduce the electrical power until the Palestinian militants cease the attacks. In response to that, Palestinian fighters launched today 20 rockets into Israel, which reportedly did not cause casualties. Hamas officials defiantly...

Israel Cuts Off Electrical Supply in Gaza
 

Rice to Attend Meeting with Olmert and Barak
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting with top Israeli officials on Wednesday as a last stop in her Middle East tour. The main issue to be debated at the scheduled meeting will be the Israel-Gaza peace efforts. However, the meeting has been somewhat overshadowed by the latest Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip in...

Rice to Attend Meeting with Olmert and Barak

US Looking For Settlement Between Israeli And Palestinian Conflic
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will commence a two-day visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank on Tuesday, in preparation for a Washington-proposed international conference on the Middle East. The Bush administration under direct supervision of the president has proposed a conference in the US in November to confront...

US Looking For Settlement Between Israeli And Palestinian Conflic

Four Palestinians Killed in an Israeli Military Operation
Four Palestinians were killed and another twelve were injured in a clash with the Israeli ground forces while the latter were in a raid on the Gaza Strip, region controlled by Hamas. One Hamas militant and one 40-year-old bystander were shot during the raid, nearby the Qarara and Abassan villages, according to hospital...

Four Palestinians Killed in an Israeli Military Operation
 

Bush Says Middle East Peace Conference Is Only the Beginning
US President George W Bush was set to kick off the first Middle East peace conference in seven years Tuesday by cautioning that it marked only the beginning of efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that difficult challenges lie ahead. The parley is aimed at relaunching peace talks between the sides, and an Israeli...

Bush Says Middle East Peace Conference Is Only the Beginning

Bush Tackles Middle East Issue, Offers Aid to Abbas
During a speech held Monday, US leader George Bush tackled the pressing issue of peace in the Middle East, promising aid to Mahmoud Abbas’ government.Bush also made an appeal to Palestinian and Israeli leaders to renew talks that would end the feud and bring a long-desired Palestinian state closer. Bush said officials from Middle Eastern...

Bush Tackles Middle East Issue, Offers Aid to Abbas
 

Six novels on short list for German Book Prize
Six novels have been short-listed by judges for the German Book Prize, an annual, 25,000-euro (35,000-dollar) award for German-speaking authors, the German Book Trade Federation said in Frankfurt Wednesday. The novels and authors were The Tower (Uwe Tellkamp), Adam and Evelyn (Ingo Schulze), Abolition of Species (Dietmar Dath), Dark...

Six novels on short list for German Book Prize

Day of Mourning in Spain After Six Soldiers Die in Lebanon
Tuesday was a day of national mourning in Spain after six peacekeeping soldiers were killed Sunday in southern Lebanon by a car bomb.Numerous high-ranked dignitaries attended the state funeral, headed by crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia. The six troopers were decorated by Prince Felipe, who took his father’s place King Juan...

Day of Mourning in Spain After Six Soldiers Die in Lebanon
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