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MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

AP News 2 days ago

Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, center, greets Palestinian pilgrims waiting to cross to Egypt for the upcoming Eid al-Adha festival, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. A Hamas delegation was in Egypt on Tuesday meeting with the German ...

Spanish PM says Mideast peace efforts must continue

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Tuesday that efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East must go on, despite the lack so far of tangible progress. "It is necessary to keep expectations high," Zapatero told reporters in ...

Libya says Gaddafi will mediate in soccer dispute

Reuters US Online Report World News 2 days ago

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accepted an Arab League request to calm tension between Egypt and Algeria sparked by their soccer World Cup play-off matches, Libyan state media reported Tuesday. Egypt and Algeria have each accused the other of ...

HP quarterly net profit up 14 percent

AFP American Edition 3 days ago

US computer giant Hewlett-Packard posted a 14 percent rise in quarterly net profit Monday as slumping personal computer sales were offset by a solid performance in its services division. The Palo Alto, California-based HP reported fourth-quarter net profit of 2.4 billion dollars, ...

Israel says no deal yet on Shalit prisoner swap

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

Israel said on Monday there was no deal yet on a prisoner swap with Hamas, as efforts appeared to gather pace on an accord that could see a Gaza-held soldier exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians. "There is no deal yet," Israeli Prime ...

Israel says no deal yet on Hamas prisoner swap

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

Israel said on Monday there was no deal yet on a prisoner swap with Hamas, as efforts appeared to gather pace on an accord that could see a Gaza-held soldier exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians. "There is no deal yet," Israeli Prime ...

Mideast Egypt Algeria Soccer Row

AP News 4 days ago

In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2009, Egyptian and Algerian players clash during their World Cup qualifying playoff soccer match at the Marrikh Stadium in Khartoum, Sudan. Egypt on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Algeria for consultations as part of a growing ...

Egypt's media stoked soccer fan anger with Algeria

AP News 4 days ago

Venomous headlines in Egyptian media fed soccer fans' anger with Algeria Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that portrayed Algerians as ...

Israeli president plays down settlement work

Reuters US Online Report World News 4 days ago

CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel's president said on Sunday expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was a "marginal" issue blocking resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, speaking at a joint news conference with Shimon Peres, ...

Egypt's president warns Israel over Jerusalem

AP News 4 days ago

Egypt president tells Peres that Jerusalem is an issue for all Muslims, not just Palestinians Egypt's president on Sunday criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlement activity in the disputed sector of the holy city threatens to ...

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