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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:12 GMT

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) shakes hands with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas at Mercy Museum in Salvador, Bahia State. sraeli settlement expansion on Palestinian territory must stop immediately, Lula said Friday after meeting Abbas.(AFP/Evaristo Sa)AFP - Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian territory must stop immediately, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday as he seeks to position Brazil as a player in the Middle East.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:23:16 GMT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pauses during a meeting of the PLO executive committee at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)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.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:16 GMT

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to a religious museum in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. President Abbas is on three-day official visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)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.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:42 GMT

Israeli opposition chief Tzipi Livni (right) shakes hands with an envoy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Rafik El Hussaini, at a forum in Tangiers. Livni reiterated her support for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world.(AFP/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - Opposition chief Tzipi Livni reiterated her support Friday for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:48 GMT

Palestinian students from refugee camps sit for their final exams at a school in Tripoli in northern Lebanon in 2007. UN officials have warned that the school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education.(AFP/File/Ousama Ayoub)AFP - The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned on Friday.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:32:06 GMT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a PLO executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 16, 2009. REUTERS/Abed Omar QusiniReuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:38:58 GMT

Israel's Trade and Industry Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (seen here in 2008) has said he is to travel to Turkey, in the first such visit since Israel's military offensive in Gaza at the turn of the year strained ties with Turkey.(AFP/File/Awad Awad)AFP - An Israeli minister said on Friday he was to travel to Turkey, in the first such visit since Israel's military offensive in Gaza at the turn of the year strained ties with Turkey.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:34:06 GMT

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday received Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, pictured on November 17, Thursday for the first in a series of discussions on forging peace in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Thursday.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle)AFP - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday received Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas here Thursday for the first in a series of discussions on forging peace in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Thursday.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:25:35 GMT

A picture released by Hezbollah Press Office shows Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in 2008. Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:02:48 GMT

A picture released by Hezbollah Press Office shows Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in 2008. Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:35:58 GMT

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, walks among crowds of supporters as he is escorted by his bodyguards during a commemoration in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon. The militant Hezbollah group says that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the group's leader for a sixth term. Nasrallah has held the post since an Israeli helicopter gunship killed his predecessor, Sheik Abbas Musawi, in south Lebanon in 1992. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)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.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:42 GMT

Palestinians walk in a smuggling tunnel while repairing it in Rafah near Gaza's border with Egypt in this January 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaReuters - Fearing loss of life and money, Palestinians are abandoning tunnels that supply the blockaded Gaza Strip with everything from food to fridges to weapons.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:53:15 GMT

A Palestinian man inspects damage following Israeli air strikes on smuggling tunnels in Rafah on the border southern Gaza and Egypt. Israeli warplanes have attacked a building and two tunnels in the Gaza Strip following the launch of rockets by Palestinian militants, a military spokeswoman has said.(AFP/Said Khatib)AFP - Israeli warplanes on Thursday attacked a building and two tunnels in the Gaza Strip following the launch of rockets by Palestinian militants, a military spokeswoman said.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - The Hmoud family once prospered in this arid Palestinian farm village by cultivating banana and eggplant crops, earning enough to send a son abroad for medical school and to build a house with a showy staircase and a two-story window.
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:50:27 GMT

Hamas police officers take part in a training session on the outskirts of Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. A Gaza charity linked to the ruling Hamas militant group is offering $1.4 million to anybody who captures an Israeli soldier.  The Waad group sent an e-mail on Wednesday calling on people living in Israel to try to take soldiers hostage. The organization, which supports Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, is headed by Hamas' Interior Minister Fathi Hamad. He did not return calls seeking comment. Waad's director, Usama Kahlout, says the offer is in response to an Israeli group's offer to pay Gazans for information on the whereabouts of a captured soldier held by Hamas for more than three years. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)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.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:55:45 GMT
Reuters - Israeli warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels and a military training compound in the Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding three people, said officials in the Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement.
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:41:26 GMT

US President Barack Obama (R) speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), seen here in September 2009. The Obama administration is hardening its tone against Israel, but analysts warned Wednesday the tough talk was mere bluster hiding the lack of a viable plan to revive the Middle East peace process.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - The Obama administration is hardening its tone against Israel, but analysts warned Wednesday the tough talk was mere bluster hiding the lack of a viable plan to revive the Middle East peace process.


Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:56:30 GMT

A group of Jews visiting from North America, including New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (7th L), attend a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new Jewish neighbourhood at an enclave near the Arab East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber November 18, 2009. Hikind plans to buy a home on occupied land overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem and says it is outrageous that President Barack Obama would challenge a Jew's right to build there. REUTERS/Darren WhitesideReuters - President Barack Obama may be telling Israelis that building settlements round Jerusalem risks dangerously fuelling Palestinian anger, but some of his fellow Democrats brought the opposite message to the city on Wednesday.


Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:07:19 GMT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to make sufficient concessions on Jewish settlement building to stop the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Yossi Beilin, one of the Israeli architects of the deal that created it said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Amro Maraghi)AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to make sufficient concessions on Jewish settlement building to stop the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, one of the Israeli architects of the deal that created it said on Wednesday.


Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:53:30 GMT

A Palestinian construction worker is seen at a large apartment building complex being built in the Jerusalem settlement suburb of Gilo. Israel has defended its decision to build hundreds of new Jewish homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem as US President Barack Obama warned the AFP - Israel defended on Wednesday its decision to build hundreds of new Jewish homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem as US President Barack Obama warned the "dangerous" move pushed peace further away.


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