Ian McKellen, Rachel Weisz honored at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards Rachel Weisz took top acting honors and Ian McKellen was recognized for ...
Thousands in Nazareth celebrate beatification of late Palestinian nun A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls on Sunday ...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on Sunday acknowledged differences over the contentious issue of Jerusalem, after talks in Cairo. "I don't deny there are differences in our positions, but I believe they are bridgeable," Peres told reporters ...
JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 22: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd R) and Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom (R) look at artwork displayed at the Prime Ministry, to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women before the weekly cabinet ...
Around 2,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews protested at an Israeli plant of giant US chipmaker Intel for the second Saturday in a row, voicing outrage at the factory's decision to operate on the Sabbath. Angry shouts of "Shabbat, Shabbat" rose from outside the Jerusalem ...
Israel defended on Wednesday its decision to build hundreds of new Jewish homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem as US President Barack Obama warned the "dangerous" move pushed peace further away. New settlement construction "embitters the Palestinians in a way that could ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may be telling Israelis that building settlements round Jerusalem risks dangerously fuelling Palestinian anger, but some of his fellow Democrats brought the opposite message to the city on Wednesday. Dov Hikind, a member of New York ...
Israel on Wednesday defended its move to build hundreds of new homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem amid warnings that it was undermining US-led efforts to relaunch Middle East peace talks. US President Barack Obama warned that new settlement construction "embitters the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to make sufficient concessions on Jewish settlement building to stop the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, one of the Israeli architects of the deal that created it said on Wednesday. "Netanyahu is set to announce ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama warned Israel Wednesday its approval of new construction in a Jewish settlement could prove "very dangerous" by fuelling Palestinian anger and harming prospects for peace. Obama's outspoken criticism of a plan to build 900 new ...
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Wednesday signed a two million euro (three million dollar) reconstruction project for a Gaza hospital heavily damaged during Israel's offensive. Kouchner, on a one-day visit to Israel, inked the project at a ceremony in the French ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed U.S. anger at Israel's approval for new homes in a settlement near Jerusalem, saying it was part of a routine building program. Netanyahu seemed keen to contain the ...
