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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: Hosni Mubarak, Cairo (Egypt), Military Equipment, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Politics, West Bank, Human Rights
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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: Religion and Belief, Tzipi Livni, Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu, Fishing
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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: Lifestyle and Leisure, Benjamin Netanyahu, Fishing, 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: Armed Conflicts, Kidnapping, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Kidnapping, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Fatah
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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: Bashar Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Manufacturing and Engineering
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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 travelers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when...Tags: Kidnapping, Hosni Mubarak, Al Jazeera (tv network), Gaza Strip, Mohamed Morsi
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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: Organized Crime, Brooklyn (New York City), Holidays, Companies and Corporations, Bankruptcy
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New York breaks militant-linked cigarette smuggling ring
Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multimillion-dollar cigarette smuggling ring, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist...Tags: Ramadan, Brooklyn (New York City), Holidays, New York City, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Washington, DC, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, U.S. Military
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Global Voices: Palestinian quest for statehood a moving target
In the 65 years since the creation of Israel and the scattering of millions of Palestinians from their historic homeland, hope of resolving the core crisis of the Middle East has risen to joyous pinnacles like Camp David and crashed into despair with...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Fatah, International Monetary Fund
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