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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has announced presidential and legislative elections will be held on January 24.
The announcement on Friday said elections will be held across the Palestinian territories including the Hamas-ruled Gaza...
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Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...
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A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was...
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representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....
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THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and...
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Mahmoud Abbas, the “president” (his term expired and elections have been postponed) of the Palestinian Authority, is facing a great credibility and...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbads is reportedly pushing for a vote on Goldstone which supposedly proves the occurrence of war crimes in Gaza during the Israeli...
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly pushing for a vote on the Goldstone report which supposedly proves the occurrence of war crimes in Gaza during Israeli...
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Clashes have broken out in East Jerusalem amid high tensions after Palestinian groups called for a day of protest over access to al-Aqsa mosque.
Eleven police officers...
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With all the current talks about Gaza, the Goldstone report, the Israeli government and Mahmoud Abbas, I thought it would be good to write a small briefing about what...
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To the waste dump of history is where Palestinian collaborator Mahmoud Abbas belongs. This is a man who has sold out his people and their aspirations for nothing more...
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This has to be one of my favorite photos:
Look at Abass on the right. What a puppet? What a buffoon? Bibi and Obama are literally rubbing elbows laughing at what one...
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Most Palestinians who want a state of their own would like to achieve it through a peace deal with Israel but there is still substantial support for the Islamist Hamas...
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Reporting from Washington and New York - President Obama, exasperated by the disappointing course of Mideast peace efforts, urged Israelis and Palestinians on Tuesday...
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Fatah, the Palestinian group led by Mahmoud Abbas, today elected a group of younger leaders, as the movement seeks to shake off its reputation for corruption and...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sought to reinvigorate his Fatah movement Tuesday, launching the party’s first congress in 20 years — and its...
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Not, as most will think, because his family was expelled from Safed by “the Jews, but because his family feared that “the Jews” would act in the way they would be...
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Al-Jazeera now has the dubious distinction of being banned by both
The Israeli and West Bank Palestinian governments for being biased against them.
Palestinians ban...
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I’ve always believed that it’s bad karma to lie, and that fibbing does more harm than good. Besides, in the end, the Truth will always be revealed, so why...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his office today slammed as “barbaric” and “unnecessary” Israel’s air strikes in Gaza,...
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Israel is coming under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life in the West Bank which senior diplomats...
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The Yemeni-brokered agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas Sunday did not receive the approval of the Palestinian Authority leadership in Ramallah, PA officials said...
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Palestinians militants and Israel reach the much-awaited truce on Saturday, both the factions have decided on a ceasefire that comes into effect on today putting an end...
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