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After Gaza rocket attacks resulted in the first fatality since last year's war, Israeli warplanes carried out retaliatory air strikes on at least six targets overnight. Hamas is struggling to contain unaffiliated militants in Gaza.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Treasury Department has taken action against a Gaza-based bank and television station for alleged ties to the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
Student leaders voted early Thursday to drop their investments in companies doing business with Israel and to ask the same of the UC system.
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Pianist Yundi Li and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis are names not often associated with Abu Dhabi, home to more than 7 percent of the world’s oil supply.
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday slammed into an empty field in Israel without causing any casualties or damage, the army said, a day after a rocket killed a Thai labourer.
Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months. They reiterated their condemnation of Israel 's latest move to add Jewish housing in disputed east Jerusalem but did not escalate criticism of the Jewish state.
What's Your Reaction? JERUSALEM — A poll released Friday shows that Israelis overwhelmingly have a favorable impression of President Barack Obama, despite a grave diplomatic feud with the U.S. over east Jerusalem construction.
Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes on at least six targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, just hours after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants killed a foreign migrant worker in southern Israel – the first fatality from a rocket attack since last year’s Gaza war.
In Moscow, the Quartet of Middle East mediators called on Israel and Palestine to return to peace negotiations and condemned ( WSJ ) Israel's expansion of housing settlements in East Jerusalem.
The "Quartet" of peacemakers from the U.S., Russia, the European Union and special representative Tony Blair call for negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months.
MOSCOW—Hoping to defuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims.
By United Press International MOSCOW, March 19 (UPI) -- Russia plans to complete a nuclear power plant for Iran this year, a move in apparent conflict with U.S. moves to limit Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
By United Press International MOSCOW, March 19 (UPI) -- Israel should halt expansion of settlements an international group, which includes the United States, pushing for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Friday.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months. They reiterated their condemnation of Israel's latest move to add Jewish housing in disputed east Jerusalem but did not escalate criticism of the Jewish state. The ...
Joint Statement by the Quartet Washington, DC March 19, 2010 The Quartet -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell, and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union Catherine Ashton -- met in Moscow on March 19, 2010 ...
At an international meeting on Friday, the emphasis was on starting Israel’s indirect talks with the Palestinians.
Two Israeli airforce planes that made a low-level pass over Budapest this week had nothing to do with the killing of a Syrian man in the Hungarian capital on the same day, Hungarian officials said on Friday.
“Delicate issues” including the role of Pope Pius XII in World War II are at the heart of talks in Rome between an international Jewish delegation and senior Vatican officials.
(RTTNews) - The Middle East Peace Quartet, the international sponsors of the Middle East peace negotiations, has called on Israel to 'freeze' all its settlement activities in occupied West Bank land in east Jerusalem.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A rocket fired by Gaza militants smashed into a greenhouse in an Israeli border village Thursday, killing a Thai worker in the first such death since Israel's massiv...
Moscow - The world's leading powers Friday criticized Israeli plans to build a new Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem as they piled pressure on Israelis and Palestinians to resume stalled peace talks as soon as possible. ...
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