The White House has announced that the US president will host three-way talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday.
Barack Obama is due to meet Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, separately before the three go into a joint session, the White House said.
The meeting is expected to take place in New York before a session of [...]
September 20, 2009 | Posted in
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George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, has returned to Washington after failing to secure a compromise deal for renewed peace talks bewteen Israel and the Palestinians.
Mitchell had hoped to reach a deal on a settlement freeze that would allow the two sides to meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly [...]
September 18, 2009 | Posted in
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You need not to be Pat Condell to know that Islamic cultural values are becoming increasingly well recognised throughout the world (take, for example, the existence of Islam merchandise shops, like the one in Reading, Berkshire, UK, bordering the cemetery, on King’s Road, A329, just before the traffic lights-marked A329 / A4 crossing).
And if theteddy [...]
September 17, 2009 | Posted in
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SANAA, (IRIN): At least 16 Africans died, and 49 others are missing and presumed dead, in three separate incidents as boats smuggling them from Somalia to Yemen capsized in the Gulf of Aden on 13 and 14 September, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Ahmad Akam, a Yemeni coast guard official, said the people smuggling [...]
September 17, 2009 | Posted in
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At least 11 people including six African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed after two large car bombs exploded in the AU’s headquarters in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
Seven more people were also killed and 18 wounded in gun battles that broke out after the blasts on Thursday, witnesses said.
Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, an spokesman for rebel [...]
September 17, 2009 | Posted in
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MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press Writer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ― About half of students enrolled in the Wyoming Virtual School who took the statewide assessment this year scored much worse than students in traditional schools around the state.
As for the other half, no one knows.
District-by-district and school-by-school results from this year’s Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming [...]
September 2, 2009 | Posted in
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The Israeli authorities have charged Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, with corruption.
The indictments include illegal acceptance of funds from an American supporter and double-billing for foreign trips, the attorney-general’s office said on Sunday.
“The attorney-general … has decided to press charges against former prime minister Ehud Olmert,” a statement from the office of Menahem [...]
August 30, 2009 | Posted in
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The Afghan government has called for an international media blackout on reporting violent acts on the day of its presidential elections, following a series of attacks across the country.
The call came after at least 12 people were killed in more than a dozen bomb and rocket attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday - just two days before the country’s ballot.
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