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A senior Hamas leader has been killed by an Israeli air strike on his home in the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials say.A senior Hamas leader has been killed by an Israeli air strike on his home in the Gaza... more
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The fighting early on Saturday came a day after Israel closed the borders to Gaza and bombed an empty Hamas building in increasing efforts to stop rocket fire from Hamas onto Israeli border towns.
Hamas vowed to continue fighting.The fighting early on Saturday came a day after Israel closed the borders to Gaza and... more
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Surprise! Mid-East peace can't be achieved in a week. Bush is asking for support from neighboring Arab leaders (he's in Kuwait now), but Condi Rice is cautioning that Arab support may take a while to come. Gasp - really?! I had no idea this was a hard thing to accomplish!Surprise! Mid-East peace can't be achieved in a week. Bush is asking for... more
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Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran?s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear ?bunker-busters?, according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran?s uranium enrichment facilities... more
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The British Foreign Office said Friday that six world powers had agreed to push ahead with a third round of United Nations sanctions against Iran unless reports this month indicate the country has tried to address their concerns about its nuclear program.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said that senior officials from the six countries Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China would meet again Nov. 19 to assess reports from Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Javier Solana, the European Unions foreign policy chief.The British Foreign Office said Friday that six world powers had agreed to push ahead... more
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Condoleezza Rice says now is the time for a Palestinian state. Now, if she can only get the two sides to agree to how that's going to work and look... She's in Egypt now, trying to rally support for the process there, but Egypt is only saying the planned meeting should only happen if there is substantial agreement beforehand. Which there is not yet.Condoleezza Rice says now is the time for a Palestinian state. Now, if she can only... more
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Israel freed 57 Palestinian prisoners, most of them members of the Fatah party and none from Hamas, as a gesture to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are working on a peace plan that would establish a Palestinian state, and hopefully, finally, bring peace to the region. Israel has about 11,000 Palestinians in custody.Israel freed 57 Palestinian prisoners, most of them members of the Fatah party and... more
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Mahmoud Abbas is saying he expects a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians could be signed by as early as Mid May, 2008. Abbas expects final questions over the status of Palestinian territories to be resolved at an international peace conference scheduled for November 15, 2007, and said all other details should be ironed out within 6 months of that meeting. The question is whether whatever is decided upon in November and in the following six months will be considered sufficient by Hamas. Abbas is a member of rival party Fatah, and so far, Hamas has remained critical of Abbas' work with Israel. Mahmoud Abbas is saying he expects a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians... more
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