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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accused Israel on Sunday of stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas for a captured Israeli soldier by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners.
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.
Two missiles fired into southern Israel have been identified as advanced Russian-made rockets. The missiles, which did not explode, landed Sunday morning and caused no damage, according to the Jerusalem Post. They were located several hours after they were fired from Gaza near Kibbutz Alumim.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The World Bank said it will give the Palestinian Authority $64 million to build institutions in preparation for a state in two years.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accused Israel on Sunday of stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas for a captured Israeli soldier by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners.
World Bank gives Palestinian Authority $64 million to help it prepare for statehood
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.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a halt to building in West Bank settlements will last for no longer than the scheduled 10 months as police arrested two Jewish settlers protesting the freeze.
The Daily News recently carried two letters of extreme interest to the future of our country. One carried the title "Being Politically Correct Is Not Correct" and the other was titled "Lunatic Muslims Should be Rounded Up in Camps.
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...
Today is Saturday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2009. There are 12 days left in the year. On Dec. 19, 1843, "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2009. There are 16 days left in the year. On Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect following ratification by Virginia.
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...
The Israeli government has denied that it refused Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin permission to visit Gaza as he stated in the Irish media last week.
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...
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 ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Negotiations between Hamas and Israel to release kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit have hit a significant snag, according to news reports.
Federal prosecutors have moved to seize the assets of a Manhattan-based Islamic charity that, they say, has been an illegal front for the government of Iran for decades. Besides considerable real-estate holdings around the country — including a 36-s...
The Israeli leader, speaking before the weekly Cabinet meeting today, acknowledged the “difficulties” that the construction moratorium had created for the almost 300,000 residents of the West Bank who live among 2.5 million Palestinians.
TEL AVIV | Amid swirling speculation about an imminent Israel-Hamas prisoner swap, the possible release of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti could change the political dynamic in stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. More than any other of the hundreds of Palestinians that are expected to be freed by Israel in return for Sgt. Gilad Shalit after three years of captivity in Gaza, the possibility ...
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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