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File - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, center, holds the hands of Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, left, the top Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, and a unidentified member of the Christian church delegation, as they leave Arafat's office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Monday, Dec. 24, 2001.
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser
Palestinians, Christians and the Politics of Compassion
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Article by WorldNews.com correspondent Dallas Darling. Even now as Presbyterian leaders prophetically issue statements calling for the U.S. to end its military aid to Israel unless Tel Aviv stops it settlement activities in occupied land that belongs to Palestinians, they might want to recall what Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer wrote in his book "The...
President Barack Obama holds a working dinner with, clockwise from left, President Hosni Mubarek of Egypt, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, George Mitchell, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, and Tony Blair, the international Middle east envoy and former British Prime Minsiter, in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House, Sept. 1, 2010.
photo: White House / Pete Souza
Israeli and Palestinian leaders face critics of talks
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh criticism for agreeing to the talks at all. Analysts on both sides questioned the ability and desire of their leaders to negotiate a...
Volunteers carry injured people following an explosion during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.
photo: AP / Arshad Butt
Deadly bombing at Pakistan rally
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At least 22 people have been killed in a large suicide blast in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said. The bomber struck a rally of about 2,000 people who had gathered on Friday in support of a separate homeland for Palestinians. Four journalists were among those killed, and another 40 people were injured...
Masked Palestinian Hamas militants hold a press conference in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
Gaza militants vow new Israel attacks after peace talks
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Militants in Gaza have vowed to step up attacks against Israel, following the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian...
Sri Lankan refugees are seen onboard the Oceanic Viking, an Australian Customs Service patrol ship, 14 kilometers off the coast of Kijang, Tanjung Pinang on the Indonesian Island of Bintan on Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009.
photo: AP / Wong Maye-E
Asylum seekers tortured upon return
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By Karlis Salna 6:46 PM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 are believed to have been tortured and jailed following an attempt to return to Australia, says Amnesty International. The human rights group said today it held grave fears for the men who now risk further torture and abuse from...
Members of a Hong Kong police forensic team examine the tourist bus used in the hostage-hijacking on Aug. 23 by an ex-policeman at the auditorium at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City, suburban Manila, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Noel Celis
Manila begins hostage crisis probe
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Authorities in the Philippines have begun a three-day inquiry into a botched hostage rescue operation in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in the capital, Manila. Leila de Lima, the Philippine justice secretary who is heading the probe, launched the proceedings on Friday, summoning Rico Puno, the country's undersecretary of the...
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Earl taken Thursday Sept. 2, 2010.
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Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears US
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HURRICANE Earl weakened today to a Category Two storm as it approached the US east coast but continued to wreck havoc on coastal communities as tourists fled potentially affected areas and events, including a Ke$ha concert, were cancelled. Rainbands moved on to the coast of North Carolina as Earl continued to move northward today at about 18...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Karzai appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the country and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Karzai slams Nato civilian killings
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned an air strike by Nato-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign workers, although US officials maintained it was aimed at an Islamist leader. Nato said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province's normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents on Thursday,...
In this photo taken March 30, 2010, soldiers stand guard at the site of a firefight between gunmen and army soldiers on the outskirts of Monterrey, northern Mexico.
photo: AP / Claudio Cruz
Dozens killed in Mexico shootout
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 At least 25 people have been killed in clashes between soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, local media have reported. The soldiers stormed a training camp allegedly set up by the gang members in a northern border region which has seen an escalation of violence in recent months, including...
Pakistanis displaced by flooding plead for handouts during an aid  distribution by the Pakistani Air Force at a temporary camp set up for residents who had to flee their homes in Sukkar, Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010.
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer
Pakistan gets IMF relief, tightens security
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence. Flood victims left without receiving aid for three days reach for food handouts donated by a group calling themselves Muslim...
 
 
Millions of ballot papers have been sent out yesterday to those eligible to vote in the Labour...
What would Europe be without ARTE TV? This independent TV station is the last one that would...
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Defence Secretary Liam Fox promised "closer co-operation" with the French as military budgets face being squeezed on both sides of the Channel. Dr Fox, who was in Paris for talks with his French counterpart Herve Morin, said the "tough...
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New Delhi - Indian authorities suspended four wrestlers and a shot-putter from next month's Commonwealth Games over failed drug tests, a news report said Friday. The athletes tested...
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It was meant to be Delhi's moment of glory. By staging the Commonwealth Games successfully in its capital, India wanted to announce to the world that it was an emerging...
photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi
 
The Amazon river has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, causing severe economic disruption in a region where it is the main transport route. At least six large boats have been...
photo: AP / Silvia Izquierdo
 
The panel of judges in a mammoth child sex abuse trial in Portugal is to deliver its verdict, more than five years after...
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Attacks on settlers will continue unless the rulers of Gaza can be accommodated, writes MICHAEL JANSEN� BY RESPONDING with violence to the resumption of Fatah-Israeli negotiations, Hamas, ruler of Gaza, is demonstrating that there can be no peace...
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
 
 
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