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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 3:46 am ET
Gaza/Tel Aviv - A team of four French doctors visited the Gaza Strip last week to examine an Israeli soldier held there for three-and-a-half years, ahead of a possible prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. There was, however, no official confir...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 8:27 am ET
Israeli objections to releasing certain prisoners are blocking a swap deal in which an Israeli soldier captured three years would be freed, an official of the Palestinian movement Hamas said on Friday.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 9:31 am ET
Gaza/Tel Aviv - A team of four French doctors visited the Gaza Strip last week to examine an Israeli soldier held there for three-and-a-half years, ahead of a possible prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas, media reports said Sunday. Hamas stron...
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UPI - Sun Dec 6, 1:50 pm ET
GAZA, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Mahmoud Zahar, described as a strongman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, says doctors have not visited abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 4:31 am ET
Dubai - Egypt will demand compensation for damage suffered by Egyptian companies in Algeria during football-related violence last month, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview published Sunday. We will demand compensation and suppo...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 6:18 am ET
A team of French doctors have performed medical check-ups on captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gaza Strip, the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported on Sunday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 2:48 pm ET
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday signed an agreement with the World Bank and other donors for $64 million to help it prepare for statehood.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Dec 4, 8:51 am ET
Israel and Lebanon have more pressing concerns than war with each other, but bickering could escalate to incite war if the US and Europe don't help.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:11 pm ET
A deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit could go ahead within two weeks, an Israeli MP said on Saturday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 8:37 pm ET
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's visit to Beirut on Monday casts the spotlight on the plight of nearly 300,000 Palestinians in Lebanon who fear they are doomed to be refugees for life.
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The Star-Ledger - Sun Dec 6, 9:42 pm ET
'The values I learned in this hospital were instrumental in my decision to move to Israel and build bridges between the two countries and various communities,' says Oren
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The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Sun Dec 6, 6:43 pm ET
Israel has begun negotiations which could lead to its withdrawal from the northern part of a divided village on the Lebanon border, Channel Two reported on Sunday.
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The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Sun Dec 6, 6:29 pm ET
The World Bank said it will give the Palestinian Authority $64 million to build institutions in preparation for a state in two years. The gift was announced Sunday during a high-level World Bank Group delegation fact-finding mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 8:01 am ET
Damascus - A bus and a lorry collided Sunday on the road between Damascus and Baghdad, killing 12 people and injuring seven, the Syrian news agency reported. The accident took place on the Syrian side of the border, the SANA agency said, noting that ...
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JTA - Sun Dec 6, 7:51 am ET
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Negotiations between Hamas and Israel to release kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit have hit a significant snag, according to news reports.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 10:17 am ET
Sana'a - Yemen on Sunday refused for a second time to receive the Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, amid growing tensions between the two countries, according to a media report. Al Arabiya TV reported on its website that the refusal came ag...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 3:36 pm ET
Senior Hamas officials said Monday that the Islamic militant group is still wrangling with Israel over the names of 50 prisoners it wants released in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier, signaling significant gaps in the way of an anticipated deal.
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New America Media - Fri Dec 4, 4:14 pm ET
Fifty-eight people are dead as elections in the Philippines turn deadly, Honduras has elected a new president amidst much political turmoil, and I Heart Hamas is the title of a new one woman show by Jennifer Jajeh.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 10:31 am ET
Baghdad - Six people were killed and six injured in attacks targeting mostly police stations and patrols in Iraq on Sunday, police said. Two people were killed and six injured in several attacks in the northern city of Kirkuk. The victims were believ...
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EARTHtimes.org - 42 minutes ago
Tel Aviv - Israeli soldiers at the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip shot dead an Israeli citizen who climbed over a security fence into Palestinian territory, the military said Monday. The security personnel called on the man to sto...