Syria War Triggers Rifts in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon
Source: Newyork Times
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2012-06-05 03:23:59 -0700 | political-news
As Syria 's yearlong conflict has heightened tensions in neighboring Lebanon between groups loyal or hostile to the Syrian regime, discord and factional infighting in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps have added to the country's instability. The country's camps are becoming...
Opinion: Call Syria conflict a war
Source: CNN
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated 2012-06-04 22:19:13 -0700 | political-news
EDT, Wed April 4, 2012 Mourners carry the coffin of Ahmad Qarush, 13, who was killed in Shermin...Editor's note: Laurie Blank is the director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at the Emory University School of Law.
Landmines blocking Iraq's development, UN says
Source: NOW Lebanon
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-06-04 12:08:30 -0700 | political-news
Landmines and unexploded ordinance are inhibiting development in Iraq, one of countries worst-affected by such explosives worldwide, a United Nations factsheet released on Wednesday said. "Years of war and internal conflict have left a dangerous legacy of landmines and unexploded...
VIDEO: Syrian violence goes on despite talks
Source: BBC
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2012-06-04 02:00:19 -0700 | political-news
Syrian forces continue crackdown despite UN deadline 3 April 2012 Last updated at 12:50 ET Syrian forces have continued their violent crackdown on rebels throughout the country despite the agreement of a peace plan deadline. However, Kofi Annan's spokesman has...
Lieberman: We worked discreetly against PA bid to ICC
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-06-03 15:54:22 -0700 | political-news
C Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman addressed the International Criminal Court's announcement on Tuesday that is rejects the bid by the Palestinian Authority to clear the way for the permanent war crimes tribunal to investigate the 2008 Gaza conflict. "Not...
Marouni criticizes division among Syrian opposition
Source: NOW Lebanon
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2012-07-11 16:50:24 -0700 | political-news
Kataeb bloc MP Elie Marouni on Tuesday criticized the Syrian opposition's state of division and said that disunity was enabling the Syrian regime to survive. The opposition bears responsibility for [providing the opportunity], through division and the lack of a unified...
Yesha Council chief: Machpelah house eviction ן¿½ political use of IDF
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-06-03 15:53:33 -0700 | political-news
Machpelah house eviction political use of IDF Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan addressed the planned eviction of Machpelah house in Hebron and said that "should Defense Minister Ehud Barak use the IDF in Hebron against the government's stance, it would...
The nuclear countdown in Iran
Source: Edgewater View
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-06-03 15:53:30 -0700 | political-news
The Record Not long ago, an astute reader noted that it has been nearly two years since I wrote in a column that "most experts now estimate that Iran needs about 18 months to complete a nuclear device and a...
'Saudi Peace Initiative would have economic benefit'
Source: Jerusalem Post
Netanya :: Israel | updated 2012-06-03 05:47:12 -0700 | political-news
The day before it was published, a Hamas suicide bomber detonated himself inside the Park Hotel in Netanya, killing 30 Israelis in the bloodiest attack of the second intifada. The next day then-prime minister Ariel Sharon launched Operation Defensive Shield...
Media on Friends of Syria meeting
Source: BBC
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2012-06-02 19:41:52 -0700 | political-news
A writer in a Qatari paper says that the recognition of the opposition Syrian National Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people at the gathering ''means the beginning of the end of the Syrian regime". However, a Turkish...
Palestinian detainee sent to Gaza
Source: BBC
Tau :: Norway | updated 2012-06-02 09:36:17 -0700 | political-news
A Palestinian woman prisoner who had been on hunger strike for more than 40 days has been released by the Israeli authorities and exiled to Gaza. Hana Shalabi, a 30-year-old supporter of Islamic Jihad, was placed in "administrative detention" in...
Israel to scale down intelligence in Iran - officials
Source: Russia Today
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-07-16 16:00:01 -0700 | political-news
Israeli intelligence are scaling down their covert operations in Iran and spy recruitment, Israeli security officials say...One security official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was afraid that the operations would get exposed by Iran. The official notes that this fear...
Libya: With freedom comes chaos
Source: Seattle Times
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-06-02 09:36:07 -0700 | business-news
Arab states in the Persian Gulf offered a monthly stipend of several million dollars to pay opposition fighters in Syria and encourage more defections from President Bashar al-Assad's army, participants attending the Friends of Syria conference in Istanbul said.
Naval commander's April Fools' stunt leaves him with egg on face
Source: Ynet News
Haifa :: Israel | updated 2012-06-01 18:29:13 -0700 | political-news
Bad Joke Israel Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ram Rotberg Photo: Yedioth Ahronoth Senior naval officers called in for 'secret' exercise, troops up all night preparing, all revealed as Vice Admiral Rotberg's idea of April Fools' joke, but no one...
Firefighters Gain Control of Ra'anana Fire
Source: Israel National News
Tel Aviv :: Israel | updated 2012-06-01 18:28:30 -0700 | political-news
Free Daily Israel Report Latest News Briefs "+arr[i][1]+" 17:38 Reported News Brief 4/1/2012, Nisan 9, 5772 Firefighters Gain Control of Ra'anana Blaze Firefighters gained control, Sunday afternoon, over fires that resulted in explosions at a gasoline station and a...
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