Beirut: Ruling team obedient to US orders
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Member of the Lebanese Parliamentary Liberation and Development Bloc, Kassem Hashem has stressed that the decisions which were taken by the ruling authority came in response to the directives of the US administration....Full text
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Three Palestinians wounded in West Bank fight
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A Palestinian civilian was severely wounded and two militants were hurt in a gunfight between Palestinian security forces and militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses and hospital officials said. ...Full text
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Israels Rejectionist Approach
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Changing attitudes seems particularly important in an area that is often neglected: the relationship of Arabs and Jews outside Israel. The 1982 and 2006 aggression against Lebanon provoked major divisions in Jewish communities around the world, and one has the sense that an opening was thereby created for promoting greater Arab-Jewish understanding. Vigorous efforts have been made by the Israeli government to close that gap, and it is not apparent that equally energetic efforts have come from the Arab side to keep it open....Full text
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Civilians targeted in Somalia conflict
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All parties in Somalia`s conflict have carried out rights abuses including executions, rape and torture, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, adding there were reports Ethiopian soldiers had slit civilians` throats. ...Full text
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UN aid deliveries back on track in Gaza
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The UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees said it was "back from the brink" on Monday after new fuel supplies allowed the continuation of aid deliveries it had been set to suspend in the besieged Gaza Strip. ...Full text
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Martyrs` Day. A landmark in modern Arab history
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The Arab people mark the Martyrs` Day every year on May 6th, which is the symbol of the men who sacrificed their lives in the year 1916 in defence of the Arab nation`s character and dignity. The martyrs of May 6th were the true leaders of Arab national renaissance movement which marked the beginning of a new era in modern Arab history. That movement stood tall and steadfast in confrontation of the colonial hegemony and the policy of obliteration of the Arab national character pursued by the then Ottoman empire in the Arab region at that time....Full text
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Great Britain`s moral responsibility for Palestine tragedy
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On the 28th of November 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed the Partition Plan for Palestine with a majority of one vote(GA181). A vivid account of the pressure used by the US Administration at the time on the various members of the United Nation to change their vote to yes is given in the book (What Price Israel by Alfred Lilienthal, Henry Regnery Co.1953.). The plan gave 45% of the land to the proposed Arab State and 55% to the Jewish State. At the time the Arab populations of Palestine were a million and a two hundred thousand, and the Jewish populations were merely 600,000.accourding to the census of the Mandatory Authority of 1947....Full text
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Top Lebanon cleric heads for US talks
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Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, from whose Maronite community Lebanese presidents are drawn, left on Sunday for the United States, for talks due to focus on Lebanon`s protracted presidential vacuum. ...Full text
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South Africa`s Mbeki to visit to Qatar
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South African President Thabo Mbeki leaves today on a state visit to Qatar where he will discuss economic, political and trade relations with the gas-rich Gulf emirate, the government said. ...Full text
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Egypt intelligence chief to visit Israel
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Egyptian intelligence supremo Omar Suleiman will head to Israel after its 60th anniversary celebrations to discuss a truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, President Hosni Mubarak told reporters on Sunday. ...Full text
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Myanmar cyclone kills at least 241
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At least 241 people were killed and nearly 100,000 left homeless when tropical cyclone Nargis tore through Myanmar, razing thousands of buildings and smashing up streets, officials said Sunday. ...Full text
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Abbas, Olmert to meet tomorrow
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday for Middle East peace negotiations, a senior Palestinian negotiator said Saturday. ...Full text
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Clashes break out in Yemen as truce falters
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Clashes erupted between Yemeni forces and rebels led by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi on Saturday, dealing a new blow to a faltering ceasefire a day after a mosque bombing killed 15 people in the northern city of Saada. ...Full text
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Peace and Maintaining Legality
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On the Palestinian level, the issue of settlements represents not only a threat of physical displacement for the Palestinians living in the occupied territories (and one cannot really have any confidence that the fanatical Zionism advocating displacement will in fact be ultimately rejected in Israel) but also a political challenge which has yet to be met....Full text
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Clinton seeks gas tax vote; Obama calls it `shell` game
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Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs. ...Full text
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Cyclone knocks out electricity in much of Yangon
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A tropical cyclone packing 120-mile per hour winds ripped through Yangon early Saturday, tearing off roofs, uprooting trees and knocking out electricity in much of the country`s commercial capital, an official said....Full text
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