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Palestinians to fund renovation of Nativity Church (AFP)

September 2nd, 2010 Arab News No comments

A general view shows the Church of the Nativity from the roof of Bethlehem's municipality building. The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders on Thursday signed an accord to repair the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on the traditional site of Jesus's birth.(AFP/Musa al-Shaer)AFP – The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders on Thursday signed an accord to repair the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on the traditional site of Jesus’s birth.

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Netanyahu sparks ‘cautious hope’ at peace talks (AFP)

September 2nd, 2010 Arab News No comments

AFP – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to forge a “historic” peace with the Palestinians Wednesday, injecting cautious hope into US President Barack Obama’s long-odds Middle East talks.

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Obama readies bold Mideast peace bid (AFP)

September 1st, 2010 Arab News No comments

An Israeli border policeman blocks the road after a settlers' car was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen killing two woman and two men next to Kiryat Arba settlement in the southern West Bank. The Obama administration geared up for a bold bid to relaunch direct Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and clinch a peace deal within a year as Middle East leaders gathered in Washington.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)AFP – President Barack Obama steps into Middle East peace efforts on Wednesday in a bid to relaunch direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations after four Jewish settlers were gunned down in the West Bank.

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Abbas & Barak met secretly in Amman …

August 31st, 2010 Arab News No comments

AFP:
“… The two met on Sunday in a private home in the Jordanian capital, where Barak also held talks with King Abdullah II…”

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Netanyahu heads to Washington for renewed talks (AFP)

August 31st, 2010 Arab News No comments

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with fellow Likud party members during a meeting in Tel Aviv on August 30. Netanyahu on Tuesday left Israel for Washington where he is due to restart direct peace talks with the Palestinians after a 20-month hiatus.(AFP/Jack Guez)AFP – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday left Israel for Washington where he is due to restart direct peace talks with the Palestinians after a 20-month hiatus.

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Israel PM assures right wing ahead of Washington summit (AFP)

August 30th, 2010 Arab News No comments

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a meeting with his Likud party members in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu tried to reassure his right-wing Likud bloc in Israel's ruling coalition on Monday he would not bow to territorial concessions in peace talks with the Palestinians.(AFP/Jack Guez)AFP – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to reassure his right-wing Likud bloc in Israel’s ruling coalition on Monday he would not bow to territorial concessions in peace talks with the Palestinians.

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UN investigators to probe Gaza flotilla raid (AFP)

August 30th, 2010 Arab News No comments

AFP – A UN human rights inquiry into Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla started on Monday a probe in Jordan where investigators interviewed four Jordanian activists.

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Level of US role in peace talks key to success: experts (AFP)

August 30th, 2010 Arab News No comments

A Palestinian man rides his past a mosque built on what formerly was the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, close to Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 16. The Obama administration will relaunch direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks next week, ready to intervene as needed in what analysts hope will mean unprecedented US engagement and pressure.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)AFP – The Obama administration will relaunch direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks next week, ready to intervene as needed in what analysts hope will mean unprecedented US engagement and pressure.

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One Million Displaced as Rising Waters Threaten Major Cities

August 29th, 2010 Arab News No comments

AFP reports that Pakistani troops are on a ‘war footing’ in their desperate efforts to save the southern Sindhi city of Thatta from advancing flood waters, as they attempt to repair breaches in levees that have allowed water around the city to rise alarmingly. The 300,000 inhabitants of Thatta have fled, along with 700,000 others in surrounding areas in recent days– that is, a further million is now displaced and homeless, adding to the millions who were already in that situation. The waters are now headed toward the town of Sajawal and have knocked out its electricity plant. Thousands are fleeing.

A string of towns and cities already hit by the floodwaters is sitting empty in the absence of the owners.

Dawn writes that 400,000 of the displaced are gathered in the open in Makli, without shelter, abandoned by the state, and not knowing where their next meal is coming from

The United Nations fears that children are at risk from water-borne diseases, as water-purification processes have broken down with the flooding.

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Israeli theatre folk say ‘no’ to settlement performances (AFP)

August 29th, 2010 Arab News No comments

A general view of prefabricated houses for students at a local college in the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. Leading lights of the Israeli theatre world have vowed to boycott Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing threats from right-wingers who say the rebels risk losing public funding.(AFP/File/Yehuda Raizner)AFP – Leading lights of the Israeli theatre world have vowed to boycott Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing threats from right-wingers who say the rebels risk losing public funding.

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