Sunday, 31 July 2011

Lebanese, Israeli troops exchange fire on border (AP)

AP - Officials say Israeli and Lebanese troops have exchanged fire on the countries' border, but report no casualties.


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Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank (Reuters)

Reuters - Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Monday, medical officials and the military said.


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Arab unrest, high food prices cast pall on Ramadan (AP)

Jordanian souvenir  shop owner hangs decoration lights of Ramadan, such as lanterns and neon crescents, at his shop, in downtown Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, during which Muslims fast from dawn to dusk expected to begin in early August. (AP Photo/ Mohammad Hannon)AP - From Syria to Libya and Egypt, the uprisings and unrest gripping the Arab world have cast a pall on the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when the traditional focus on piety will likely be eclipsed by more unrest.



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Two rockets fired from Gaza 'hit Israe'l: army (AFP)

Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Sunday, without causing any damage or injuries, the Israeli military said.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)AFP - Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Sunday, without causing any damage or injuries, the Israeli military said.



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Egypt turns back Rafah travellers after Sinai spat (AFP)

Egypt turned back 450 travellers seeking to cross at the Rafah border point after an attack on a Sinai police station, Hamas officials said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)AFP - Egypt turned back 450 travellers seeking to cross from Gaza at the Rafah border point after an attack on a Sinai police station, Hamas officials said on Sunday.



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Saturday, 30 July 2011

Muslim nations declare Ramadan begins Monday (AP)

AP - Religious authorities in most of the Middle East declared that Monday will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection.


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Arab countries declare Ramadan begins Monday (AP)

AP - Religious authorities in Egypt and Saudi Arabia have declared that Monday will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan — a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection.


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Libya and Syria offering US no easy answers (AP)

FILE - In this April 10, 2011, file photo Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures to his supporters in Tripoli, Libya. Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combating him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria's leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combatting him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria's leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on.



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Gaza border violence: Another threat to Palestinian statehood? (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - As Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ramps up his campaign for a United Nations vote on statehood in September, the Gaza Strip is buzzing with speculation that Israel and radical Palestinian elements could derail the effort with cross-border violence.


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Friday, 29 July 2011

Barak says Israel still looking for peace talks formula (AFP)

AFP - Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that his government is striving to find a formula that would allow for the resumption of peace talks with Palestinian leaders.


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Court publishes names of 4 suspects in Hariri case (AP)

Lebanese protesters carry placards as they march during a protest in solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters, in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 29, 2011. The placard (R) depicts 13-year-old Syrian boy Hamza al-Khatib, who activists say was tortured and killed by security forces. The placard (2nd R) reads: AP - A U.N.-backed international court released the names Friday of four officials of the Hezbollah militia who are wanted on suspicion of murder in the 2005 truck bomb that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.



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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Bahrain king 'supports' political reforms (AFP)

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, pictured in 2009, said he supports proposals for political reform submitted to him on Thursday following a AFP - Bahrain's king said he supports proposals for political reform submitted to him on Thursday following a "national dialogue" from which the main Shiite opposition withdrew just two weeks after it began.



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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Jerusalem boxing club aims to topple barriers (AFP)

Israeli and Palestinian boxers train together at a boxing club that encourages breaking boundries between the two sides in West Jerusalem. Known simply as the Jerusalem Boxing Club, it was set up in 1981 by Gershon Luxemburg, a champion boxer who emigrated from the Uzbek city of Tashkent in the former Soviet Union in 1972.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AFP - Everyone looked on curiously as the Palestinian squared off with the Israeli, each seeking to land the decisive punch that would floor his opponent.



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This photo provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, purports to show Al-Qaida's new leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a still image from a web posting by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab, Wednesday July 27, 2011.  Al-Qaida's new leader has lauded protesters in Syria for seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad. In a video message posted Wednesday, Ayman al-Zawahri also alleges that Washington seeks to replace Assad with a leader who protects American and Israeli interests. Al-Zawahri was named al-Qaida's new leader after U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan on May 2.  (AP Photo/IntelCenter)  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE. NO SALES MANDATORY CREDIT, INTELCENTERAP - Al-Qaida's new leader praised Syrian protesters seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad while trying to portray the uprising as an Islamic battle against American and Israeli interests.



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Fatah court nixes Dahlan appeal against expulsion (AFP)

A Palestinian court run by the ruling Fatah movement on Wednesday rejected an appeal by former strongman Mohammed Dahlan, pictured in 2009, against his expulsion from the party, officials said.(AFP/File/Abbas Momani)AFP - A Palestinian court run by the ruling Fatah movement on Wednesday rejected an appeal by former strongman Mohammed Dahlan against his expulsion from the party, officials said.



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October local elections 'only in West Bank': Palestinians (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian local elections in October will only be held in the West Bank as Hamas is hampering preparations in Gaza, a senior electoral official said Wednesday.(AFP/Abbas Momani)AFP - Palestinian local elections in October will only be held in the West Bank as Hamas is hampering preparations in Gaza, a senior electoral official said Wednesday.



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Banned Palestinian activist remains free on bail (AP)

AP - A radical Islamic leader who entered Britain despite being banned will be allowed to remain free on bail while he fights deportation.


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Palestinian leader wants rallies to back UN bid (AP)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Abbas said Wednesday he will ask the United Nations to endorse Palestinian independence this fall even if negotiations restart with Israel. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - Invoking the Arab Spring, the Palestinian president on Wednesday urged his people to take to the streets for massive rallies in support of his government's bid to get the U.N. to recognize an independent Palestinian state.



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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

House bill targets aid to Pakistan (AP)

AP - House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a foreign aid bill that would restrict President Barack Obama's authority on providing U.S. taxpayer dollars to Pakistan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority while cutting money for international organizations.


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The long arm of US law enforcement reached around the world to seize four men accused of AFP - The long arm of US law enforcement reached around the world to seize four men accused of "narco-terrorism" conspiracies to help Hezbollah and the Taliban, officials said Tuesday.



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Turkey mulls harder line if Israel refuses to apologise (AFP)

People wave Palestinian and Turkish flags as they welcome the Mavi Marmara ship at Istanbul's Sarayburnu port in 2010. Turkey is preparing to harden its attitude towards Israel for its refusal to apologise over last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, officials said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Turkey is preparing to harden its attitude towards Israel for its refusal to apologise over last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, official sources said on Tuesday.



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UN envoy says Palestinians ready for statehood (AFP)

The Palestinian Authority is ready to govern a nation but deadlock with Israel has made a two-state solution far from certain, Robert Serry, the UN special envoy for the Middle East peace process, said Tuesday.(AFP/File)AFP - The Palestinian Authority is ready to govern a nation but deadlock with Israel has made a two-state solution far from certain, the UN special envoy for the Middle East peace process said Tuesday.



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Monday, 25 July 2011

Israel intercepts boat with weapons on Dead Sea (AP)

This hand out photo provided by the Israeli Defense Forces on Monday, July 25, 2011, claims, according to the Israeli army, to show weapons confiscated from a boat intercepted by Israeli security forces on the Dead Sea, displayed in an unspecified location near the Dead Sea. Israeli security forces on Monday intercepted a boat on the Dead Sea carrying two Palestinians along with assault rifles, ammunition magazines and other unspecified weapons, security officials said Monday. (AP Photo, Israel Defence Forces, HO)AP - Israeli security forces intercepted a boat Monday on the Dead Sea carrying assault rifles and ammunition from Jordan, Israeli authorities said.



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Sunday, 24 July 2011

Bahrain commission to investigate army, torture claims (Reuters)

Reuters - A commission tasked by Bahrain to investigate weeks of protests that rocked the Gulf island kingdom said Sunday it would look at the role of the security forces in the unrest and examine charges of torture.


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International panel begins probe of Bahrain unrest (AP)

A Bahraini Shiite man punches his fist into the air as he and thousands of others chant support for their senior clerics during a public forum Saturday, July 23, 2011,  at a religious community center in Sanabis, Bahrain, denouncing the alleged destruction and vandalizing of Shiite mosques, community centers and cemeteries during a government crackdown on a largely Shiite spring uprising.  Clerics who spoke during the meeting, blamed Saudi Arabia for targeting religious sites, because they allegedly distrusts its own Shia minority and sent forces to help quell the Bahrain uprising. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - An international panel has begun investigating the five months of Shiite protests in Bahrain and the crackdown by the island nation's Sunni rulers that has killed at least 32 people.



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Israel's Lieberman won't quit on apology to Turkey (Reuters)

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (C) arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem July 24, 2011. Israel's nationalist Foreign Minister Lieberman said on Sunday he would not quit the coalition government should it decide to apologise to Turkey for the lethal seizure of a Gaza-bound activist ship last year. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunReuters - Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday he would not quit the coalition government if it decides to apologize to Turkey for killing 9 Turks aboard a pro-Palestinian activist ship last year.



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Saturday, 23 July 2011

Shiite mosques demolished in Bahrain crackdown (AP)

A Bahraini woman holds a sign during a rally Friday, July 22, 2011, of several thousand anti-government protesters in the Musala neighborhood of Manama, Bahrain. Wefaq, the largest opposition group, organized the rally after pulling out of the dialogue earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - A Bahraini cleric says authorities have demolished 30 Shiite mosques during their five-month-old crackdown on dissent in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom.



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Turkey PM demands Israeli apology for flotilla dead (Reuters)

Pro-Palestinian activists attend a rally to mark the first anniversary of the Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla incident in central Istanbul May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Osman OrsalReuters - Normal ties between Turkey and Israel are "unthinkable" until Israel apologizes for the nine Turks killed when Israeli troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Prime Miniser Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.



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