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US wants Israeli-Palestinian meetings evolve into real solutions

- The United States wants to see direct meetings under way between the Israelis and the Palestinians evolve into ...

UN chief to visit Lebanon, UAE for mideast talks

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon travels to Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates this month, where he will discuss the ...

No breakthrough on mideast peace, talks to go on

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators made no breakthrough during their first high-level discussions in more than a year ...

Israeli minister says meeting with Palestinians "positive"

A senior Israeli cabinet minister on Monday said that a planned meeting with Palestinian negotiators after a 16-month ...

Israel arrests six more over army base attack

Israeli police arrested six Jewish extremists on suspicion of attacking an army base in the northern West Bank this ...

Palestinians fire on illegal Israeli pilgrims

Palestinian police shot at a group of Israelis illegally visiting a West Bank religious site, injuring one, ...

Gingrich calls Palestinians an "invented" people

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the ...

Palestinian mosque attacked in West Bank

Unknown attackers scrawled anti-Arab graffiti on the walls of a West Bank mosque overnight and tried to set it on ...

Seven Israeli women held over right-wing violence

Seven young Israeli women, six of them minors, have been arrested on suspicion of participating in the destruction of ...

ASEAN leaders reiterate commitment to supporting Palestine

A few United Nations Security Council members may try to block Palestine`s bid for full UN membership but ASEAN ...

Jordan`s king meets Abbas on rare west bank visit

Jordan`s King Abdullah II held talks in Ramallah on Monday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on his first visit ...

UN committee says devided on Palestinian UN bid

A U.N. Security Council committee said on Friday it had failed to reach agreement over a Palestinian application for ...

Palestinian rivals to hold new unity talks

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal are to meet this month in an attempt to move ahead ...

Israel pm orders UNESCO funding halt

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday ordered a halt to Israel`s financial contributions to UNESCO ...

Israel to speed up settlement building in West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the accelerated construction of some 2,000 housing units in ...