Ahmadinejad says Israel-Palestinian peace talks ‘doomed’
Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a pro-Palestinian rally on Friday that revived Middle East peace talks are “doomed” to fail, as Islamist militiamen stopped one of his arch rivals from attending the annual march. Calling Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas a hostage of Israel, Ahmadinejad said the talks that…
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Israeli, Palestinian leaders agree to continue direct contacts
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed at a U.S.-mediated meeting in Washington on Thursday to continue direct peace negotiations, with the next round scheduled for mid-September.
U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian delegations held trilateral discussions in the U.S. Department of State on Thursday, followed by a smaller meeting of Israeli Prime…
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Palestinian armed groups vow more attacks on Israel
Leaders of more than a dozen of Palestinian armed groups, who gathered for a meeting in the Gaza City, told a news conference they would step up attacks against Israel to frustrate the ongoing direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. “The factions agreed that all means are open to the Palestinian resistance…
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PNA condemns killing of Israelis in West Bank
The prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority condemned Tuesday’s killing of Israelis in the West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.
Four Israelis were killed in the West Bank on the eve of the start of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The armed wing of Islamist…
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Iranian reactor use ‘totally unacceptable’: Israel
Israel denounced Iran’s fueling up of its first nuclear power plant as “totally unacceptable” and called for more international pressure to force Tehran to cease any uranium enrichment.
Israel, widely assumed to be the only Middle East country to have nuclear weapons, has said a nuclear-armed Iran would be a…
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Israel and Palestinians agree to direct peace talks
Israel and the Palestinians accepted an invitation by the United States and other powers to restart direct talks on September 2 in a modest step toward forging a deal within 12 months to create a Palestinian state and peacefully end one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. US Secretary of…
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Israel, Palestinians agree to start direct peace talks in Washington
Israel and Palestinians agreed to start direct peace talks in Washington in early September. Earlier on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Washington on September 2 to relaunch negotiations on peace settlement.
The Quartet of mediators in…
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Israel, Palestinians to resume direct talks
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to announce Friday that Israel and the Palestinians will resume direct peace talks in Washington in early September, sources close to the talks said. President Barack Obama, who has pushed hard for reviving talks suspended since December 2008, would host the negotiations…
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No conditions for talks with Palestinians: Israel
Israel will not accept conditions for resuming direct negotiations with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Cabinet ministers affirmed in a meeting late Sunday, reflecting a hard line just as invitations to the talks appeared to be near. The Palestinians want the framework and agenda of negotiations worked…
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Israel unlikely to attack Iran before US: Castro
Israel will not be the first state to attack Iran, because such an act would make it an enemy of all nuclear powers, Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said in his Reflections column on the Cuba Debate website. Earlier the Western press reported that several former CIA officers had warned…
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UN commission probing Freedom Flotilla attack starts work
An independent international commission investigating Israel’s seizure of a humanitarian aid convoy officially started work on Tuesday with a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the UN said.
The Israeli military stormed the Freedom Flotilla ships in neutral waters in the Mediterranean Sea in late May as they tried…
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Senate body seeks report from PSO
ISLAMABAD – The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Monday sought a report from Pakistan State Oil (PSO) on grant of a contract to Israeli company Turpak-Orpak in violation of criteria and rules.
The Committee unearthed a scam in the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) for awarding Contract to Turpak-Orpak, a…
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Five killed in Israel-Lebanon border clash
Three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli officer have been killed in the first serious border clash since Israel’s 2006 conflict with Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The Lebanese army says Israeli soldiers crossed the border to uproot a tree which was blocking their view near the Lebanese village of Adaysseh. A Lebanese army…
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UN urges restraint after Israel-Lebanon border clash
Israel and Lebanon must show “utmost restraint”, the UN Security Council says, after a clash between troops on the border left five people dead.The UN urged both sides to abide by the deal that ended the last cross-border conflict in 2006.Both sides blamed each other after three Lebanese soldiers, a…
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UN launches int’l probe into Israeli raid on aid flotilla
UNITED NATIONS – Calling it an “unprecedented development,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday a four-member panel to investigate the May 31 deadly Israeli raid on Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine Turkish peace activists dead.
“For the past two months, I have engaged in intensive consultation with the leaders…
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Israel, Ukraine to sign visa-free travel agreement
The foreign ministers of Israel and Ukraine, Avigdor Lieberman and Kostyantyn Hryshchenko, will on Wednesday sign a visa-free travel agreement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
The new border crossing procedure will take effect within three months since the signing of the document, which is also to undergo internal ratification procedures.<br…
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India to get two more AWACS, other radars to make airspace impregnable
India will go in for two more AWACS (airborne warning and control systems), the “formidable eyes in the sky”, after the last of the three Israeli Phalcons already ordered is inducted in December.
IAF is also on course to induct a wide array of radars, from 19 LLTRs (low-level transportable…
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