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Clinton meets Palestinian leaders in West Bank
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks today with Palestinian leaders concerned over whether Israel's next government will commit to a US-backed peace process leading to a Palestinian state.
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Fighting for life: American activist shot by Israelis
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Parents demand inquiry into how son was critically injured by gas canister
Clashes as Israeli far-right marches in Arab town
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Dozens of Jewish ultranationalists marched along the outskirts of one of Israel's biggest Arab towns today, sparking stone-throwing protests by residents who were then dispersed by riot police.
UN accuses troops of using boy, 11, as human shield
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
An 11-year-old boy was used as a human shield by Israeli troops during their 22-day offensive in Gaza – including when they came under fire – according to a report by UN human rights experts published yesterday.
Going home to Baghdad
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Haider Al-Safi left Iraq in 2005, anxious about his safety, and came to Britain. Last week he went back.
Bomber kills 15 at Kurdish funeral
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
A suicide bomber struck a Kurdish funeral tent north-east of Baghdad yesterday in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed 24 people across the country.
Fatah official among dead in Lebanon blast
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
A bomb killed a senior official in the Palestinian Fatah faction and four other people in southern Lebanon yesterday, security sources said, increasing tensions in the country's volatile refugee camps.
Iraq bomber kills 25 at funeral
Monday, 23 March 2009
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Kurdish funeral in Iraq's volatile, ethnically mixed northern Diyala province today, killing 25 people and wounding 45, police said.
Netanyahu signs coalition deal with hawkish Shas
Monday, 23 March 2009
Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought a nationalist religious party into his emerging coalition today, taking a major step toward securing the parliamentary majority he needs to form a government.
Katherine Butler: It will take more than poetry to heal the Iranian wounds
Monday, 23 March 2009
Why has Iran apparently dismissed Barack Obama's call for "a new beginning"? As Iranians celebrated Nowruz, the Persian new year, marking renewal and the arrival of spring, the US President offered them his gift: a video in which he praised their great civilisation, said that he wanted to pursue dialogue across the range of differences while urging them to give up their old threats.
New demands by kidnappers holding Britons
Monday, 23 March 2009
The British Embassy said yesterday it had received a new video showing one of five Britons taken hostage nearly two years ago allegedly by Shiite extremists that the US believes are backed by Iran.
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