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Palestinians to set new date for elections
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting....
Brazil leader urges freeze on Israeli settlements
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians....
Hassan Nasrallah re-elected as Hezbollah leader
BEIRUT (AP) -- The militant Hezbollah group announced Thursday that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the Shiite Muslim group's leader for a sixth term....
Israeli aircraft hit Gaza after rocket attacks
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said....
Tiny survivor doesn't remember Mumbai attack
KFAR CHABAD, Israel (AP) -- Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do - he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack in Mumbai, India....
Hamas-linked group offers cash for Israeli capture
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier....
Obama criticizes new Israeli move on settlements
BEIJING (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Israel's latest move to build hundreds of new apartments in a neighborhood claimed by the Palestinians complicates administration efforts to relaunch peace talks and embitters the Palestinians....
White House: Israeli housing plans dismaying
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House rebuked Israel with heavy criticism Tuesday after the Jerusalem city government moved toward the construction of 900 additional housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim for the capital of their future state....
Israel's Peres: Chavez, Ahmadinejad will fall
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Israel President Shimon Peres predicts the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long....
Israel army punishes troops for settlement protest
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli army punished six soldiers, sending two to prison, for protesting the army's demolition of structures at an unauthorized settler outpost in the West Bank, the military said Tuesday.... |
