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Israel to withhold tax transfers to Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies....
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank, United Nations, Politics, Government
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Palestinian group reports human rights violations by rulers increasing in Gaza, West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian report shows human rights abuses by the rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza are on the rise. The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said in its annual report Tuesday that incidents...Tags: Justice and Rights, West Bank, Fatah, Civil Rights, Human Rights
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Egyptian army blocks Sinai roads in hunt for kidnappers
ReutersSHEIKH ZUWAID, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian army and police forces stepped up roadblocks in north Sinai in a hunt for militant Islamists who kidnapped seven security officers last week, a security source said on Tuesday. The militants seized the men on a...Tags: Criminals, Wars and Interventions, Egypt, Politics, Cairo (Egypt)
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Peace debate exposes deep rifts in Israeli government
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's coalition government presented a divided front on Palestinian statehood on Tuesday as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared a new mission to revive long-defunct peace talks. Appearing before a parliamentary committee,...Tags: West Bank, Likud, Labor Legislation, Fishing, John Kerry
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Israel extends Palestinians' Gaza fishing zone
ReutersJERUSALEM, May 21 (Reuters) - Israel on Tuesday expanded the distance it permits Gaza fishermen to head out to sea, restoring a limit it cut in half two months ago in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave. The Defence Ministry announced...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Fishing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Israel
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Egypt's border with Gaza stays closed as protest continues
CAIRO — Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip remained closed Sunday as the families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped in the northern Sinai Peninsula last week continued a sit-in. A video was briefly posted on YouTube...
Tags: Kidnapping, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, Egypt, Cairo (Egypt)
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Supporters of abducted soldiers keep Sinai-Gaza border shut
CAIRO — The families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped last week in North Sinai kept Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip closed Sunday for the third day in a row. Nearly 170 demonstrators have gathered inside the...
Tags: Fatah, Kidnapping, Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Tel Aviv (Israel), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Politics, Bashar Assad
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Enraged by kidnapping, Egyptian police block Gaza border
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday...Tags: Kidnapping, Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera (tv network), Hosni Mubarak, Gaza Strip
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Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say
The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...
Tags: Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Ocean City, Tobacco Products, Business
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Turkish prime minister, Obama discuss Syria's civil war in White House meeting
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but there's "no magic formula" to stop his violence. At a news conference with Turkish...Tags: West Bank, Wars and Interventions, Cyprus, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011)
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...Tags: West Bank, Wars and Interventions, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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