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EXTRA: Israeli cabinet approves 10-month settlement moratorium
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner security cabinet approved a 10-month moratorium of Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Channel 2 television reported Wednesday evening. The moratorium does not include...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Netanyahu asks cabinet to okay settlement building halt - Summary
Jerusalem/Ramallah - Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu asked ministers Wednesday to approve a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, in a move designed to address an issue preventing the restart of peace talks with the ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

1STLEAD: Netanyahu asks cabinet to okay settlement building freeze
Jerusalem/Ramallah - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his inner cabinet Wednesday to discuss plans for a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, but not in East Jerusalem. But even before the ministers m...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Family of six among 11 killed in fresh Iraq violence - Summary
Baghdad - A family of six was among the 11 people killed in a series of bloody attacks across Iraq on Wednesday. Men wearing the uniforms of Iraqi security forces burst into the family's home in the district of al-Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, early on ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Hamas split over agreeing to prisoner swap with Israel - Summary
Gaza City/Jerusalem/Damascus - A delegation of top Hamas leaders from the Gaza Strip was in Syria Wednesday to consult with the Palestinian Islamist movement's exiled leadership over whether to accept Israel's latest offer for a prisoners swap. The d...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

EXTRA: Netanyahu asks cabinet to approve settlement building freeze
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his inner cabinet Wednesday afternoon to discuss plans for a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. An Israeli government communique said the freeze would in...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Excluding East Jerusalem from settlement halt 'major issue': Fayyad
Ramallah - Excluding occupied East Jerusalem from any possible temporary Israel settlement construction freeze is a major issue for Palestinians, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Wednesday. Reacting to reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

At least five dead, 41 injured, in twin Iraq bombings - Summary
Baghdad - At least five people were killed and 46 injured when two bombs exploded in the central Iraqi city of Karbala on Wednesday, doctors told the German Press Agency dpa. Witnesses said the first bomb badly damaged a restaurant on Karbala's Jamai...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Iran's defence minister predict more wars in region
Tehran - Iran's defence minister on Wednesday predicted more wars in the volatile Middle East, ISNA news agency reported. We are living in a region which has in the recent years witnessed several wars such as the (1980-88) Iran-Iraq war, the first a...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Iran's supreme leader says efforts by opposition futile - Summary
Tehran - The Iranian supreme leader said Wednesday that efforts by the opposition to change the country's political status quo were futile. Those who are deceived by a smile or applause by the enemy and try to confront the establishment and constitu...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

EXTRA: NATO must worker harder in Afghanistan, Rasmussen says

Released Canadian, Australian journalists arrive in Kenya - Summary

BACKGROUND: German airstrike throws up legal and political issues

Pressure mounts on Iran at ElBaradei's final IAEA board - Update

One dead in shooting at Hungarian university campus

Turkish president to visit Jordan on Tuesday

Brazilian Ze Roberto out for rest of year

Former Chelsea boss Grant named as Portsmouth manager

Anti-Islamic Dutch politician forced to cancel Prague visit

Floods kill 48 as hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia - Summary

Lindsay Lohan has posed topless for French magazine Purple.

Seal to adopt

Man basher Ashley Greene

Taylor Lautner's school torment

Usher in record row

PREVIEW: Commonwealth summit to grapple with climate change, rights

Floods kill 48 as hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia

Malta's ex chief justice jailed for two years and nine months

Astana granted 2010 Pro Tour licence but with conditions

German army top brass lose jobs over Afghan cover-up - Update