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Abbas: No talks Without Settlement Building Freeze
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Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that he had warned Israel's prime minister that he would quit peace talks unless the Israel extended a curb on settlement construction. Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched negotiations at a summit in Washington last week. A 10-month freeze on settlement housing ends September 26, and Netanyahu is under pressure from hardline allies to resume construction. ...
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Israeli Warplanes Stage Mock Air Raids over South Lebanon
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Israeli warplanes carried out mock air raids Sunday while flying at medium altitude over south Lebanese areas. State-run National News Agency said Israeli fighter jets have been performing mock air raids over Nabatiyeh, Iqlim Tuffah, Khiam, Marjayoun and Arqoub since 10:50 am. ...
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Hamas Vows to Attack More Settlers
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A Hamas spokesman told Arab language newspaper Al-Hayat that the group intends to continue its attacks on settlers because they are "legitimate targets" on Saturday. Azat al-Ghashek reportedly said that "Zionist settlers" made up an entire army living on occupied land, with a large cache of weapons at their disposal. "Hurting Zionist settlers is a natural thing… they now constitute an actual army, in the full sense of the word. ...
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Barak: Israel Unlikely to Extend Current Settlement Freeze
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Israel's slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is unlikely to continue in its current form after it expires at the end of this month, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday. But Barak said he did not believe Israel will entirely cancel the 10-month curbs and the minister appeared to be leaving room for a compromise that might allow the Palestinians to continue the fragile direct negotiations, which began in Washington last week. ...
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Iran's Ahmadinejad visits Qatar
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The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Qatar on Sunday for a brief visit to its Gulf ally, QNA state news agency reported. Ahmadinejad will hold talks with Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on issues including the Palestinian question and the devastating floods in Pakistan, Iran's ambassador Abdollah Sohrabi said on Thursday. Unlike other Gulf Arab states which have echoed Western suspicions about Iran's nuclear ...
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Five killed, Scores Injured in Dagestan Suicide Bombing
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A suicide bomber rammed into a Russian firing range killing five people and wounding scores on Sunday in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, law enforcement sources said. The explosives-packed car attacked a military base used by the motor rifle brigade at Dalny near the city of Buynaksk, some 40 kilometers west of the local capital Makhachkala, said the sources, who refused to be identified. "Five people are dead. Three of them died on the ...
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Most UAE Banks Stop Money Transfers to Iran
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Most banks in the United Arab Emirates, an important trading partner for Iran, have stopped money transfers there after the latest round of sanctions on the Islamic republic, bankers said on Sunday. "We stopped transfers to Iran in all currencies in July," an executive from an international bank, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. The UN Security Council hit Iran with a fourth round of sanctions on June 9 over its nuclear program. ...
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ETA Declares Ceasefire in Independence Campaign against Spain
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Basque separatist group ETA declared a ceasefire Sunday in its bloody 42-year campaign for a homeland independent of Spain, vowing to give up guns and bombs to seek a democratic solution. ETA, blamed for the deaths of 829 people in attacks on Spanish targets, said it decided several months ago that it "will not carry out armed offensive actions." It did not specify if the ceasefire was temporary or permanent. ETA made the ...
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Suicide Attacks Kill Eight in Baghdad
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As many as five suicide bombers killed eight people on Sunday at an Iraqi army complex, the first major attack to hit the capital since the US military declared an end to combat operations last week. The coordinated attack occurred in the morning at the rear gate of the Rusafa Military Command headquarters in central Baghdad, which only three weeks ago was hit by a massive suicide bombing that killed dozens. Accounts of it varied ...
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Clinton Says Time Ticking for Israel-Palestinian Peace
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged Israel and the Palestinians to overcome the final obstacles to peace, saying their new talks may be a last chance to end the conflict. Clinton, speaking to Israeli and Palestinian television one day after direct peace talks between the two sides were re-launched in Washington, said skepticism and suspicion cannot be allowed to derail the talks as has happened so many times in the past. ...
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British Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
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A British occupation soldier was killed Sunday by an exploding grenade in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense in London said. The soldier, from The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, was part of a reconnaissance force in the Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The death takes to 333 the British death toll in Afghanistan since 2001. Britain has around 10,000 troops as part of a ...
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53 Martyred, 197 Pakistanis Wounded in Suicide Attack at Al-Quds Rally
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A suicide bomber killed at least 53 people at a Shiite Muslim rally in Pakistan as the country struggles with the aftermath of massive floods, AFP reported. The bomber was among the 450-strong crowd marching through the southwestern city of Quetta on Friday and blew himself up as the procession reached the main square. "According to the reports collected from hospitals, 53 people have been killed and 197 have been injured," ...
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Egypt Journalist Faces Trial over FM 'Rubbish Bag' Analogy
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A prominent opposition journalist is to go on trial for allegedly libeling Egypt's foreign minister in a newspaper, a judicial source said on Sunday. Hamdi Qandeel could face prison or a fine if found guilty of the charge of "insulting and libeling a public servant or citizen performing their work," the source said. Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit filed a complaint against Qandeel, writing in the independent daily Shorouk, likened the ...
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India Tests Supersonic Cruise Missile
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India on Sunday successfully tested a surface-to-surface version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which it has developed jointly with Russia, officials said. The missile was fired from a mobile launcher 200 kilometers northeast of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern state of Orissa. "The test of surface-to-surface version of BrahMos was successful and matched all the mission objectives", director of the Integrated Test Range at ...
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The political exploitation of the Burj Abu Haidar incidents aims at covering false witnesses and undermining evidence implicating Israel in Hariri's assassination
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