Latest News on Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu: Four-country draft deal with Iran 'positive' - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

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Mitchell preparing Clinton Mideast talks - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday welcomed US efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks as soon as possible, ahead of a first visit to Israel by Washington's top diplomat Hillary Clinton since Netanyahu took office in March...

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Netanyahu: Israel sees four-country proposal to Iran as 'positive'
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

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EXTRA: Mitchell to Netanyahu: regional peace 'common objective'
Jerusalem - Washington's special envoy to the Middle East ended a more than two-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, preparing the ground for a one-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. George Mitchell...

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Netanyahu, Sarkozy meet in Paris amidst peace stalemate - Summary
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Paris Wednesday for talks on the stalled Mideast peace process. In a terse joint statement issued after the meeting, the two leaders said they agreed to ma...

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Netanyahu in Paris for talks with Sarkozy
Paris - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Paris Wednesday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy on the stalled Mideast peace process. The meeting promises to be tense, as Sarkozy has repeatedly called for a total freeze on Israe...

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Netanyahu calls reports of tensions with US 'nonsense'
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday praised his talks with US President Barack Obama and also dismissed as nonsense reports of tensions in US-Israeli affairs. The Israeli online service ynet carried Netanyahu's remarks ...

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Assad urges Netanyahu to resume Turkish-mediated talks - Summary
Paris - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Friday in Paris that he did not want to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he urged the Israeli leader to send negotiators to Turkey. If Mister Netanyahu is serious (about the peace...

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Obama, Netanyahu meet as Mideast peace talks flounder - Summary
Washington - President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Monday as the US struggles to revive stalled Middle East peace talks. The president reaffirmed our strong commitment to Israel's security, and discussed secu...

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Obama envoy Mitchell meets with Israeli premier
Jerusalem - US President Barack Obama's special Mideast envoy met Friday morning with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a US effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians close enough together to revive peace talks still this fall. Geo...

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Netanyahu 'shocked' by brutal murder of Israeli family - Summary
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Sunday deep pain and shock over the horrifying murder of a family of six - two grandparents, two parents, and two young children - in Israel this weekend. The six victims were found e...

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Netanyahu wants peace with Palestinians 'soon'
Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he is committed to peace negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions and that he wanted to complete an accord soon. Netanyahu spoke hours ahead of a closed door evening ...

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Obama envoy meeting Netanyahu in bid to revive Mideast peace talks
Jerusalem - President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy held talks Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an intense and ongoing - but so far unsuccessful - US bid to revive broken-off peace negotiations with the Palestinians...

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Claims Israel digging under holy site outright lie, Netanyahu says
Jerusalem - Claims that Israel was digging, or intending to dig, under the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem were an outright lie disseminated by an extremist minority, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. Last...

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Report: Clinton to visit Israel and West Bank
Tel Aviv - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to make her first visit to Israel and the West Bank since the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office in March, Israeli and Palestinian media reported Wednesday. C...

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Netanyahu: 'Israel must prepare to fight delegitimization'
Jerusalem - Israel must take appropriate measures against its delegitimization in the UN Human Rights Council, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a special ministerial forum Friday night, the Israeli Haaretz daily reported on Saturda...

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At 60, matured Netanyahu has second go at peace making - Feature
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turns 60 Wednesday, celebrating the landmark birthday back in the premier's seat, older and - he assures his critics - wiser. A decade after he had his first...

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Hillary Clinton arrives in Israel to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu
Jerusalem - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Israel Saturday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in efforts to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Clinton arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday night and ...

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Israel sets up team to collate findings from Gaza fighting probes
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to form a team of legal experts and Foreign Ministry officials to collate all material gathered by the military in its investigations of the Israel offensive in the Gaza Strip at the turn of th...

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US envoy leaves Israel with no peace talks announcement - Summary
Jerusalem - US envoy George Mitchell met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday to try find a solution to an impasse over settlement construction, but ended the discussions apparently unable to announce a breakthrough which would lead to th...

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Netanyahu meets US envoy in bid to end settlement dispute
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday in Jerusalem with US special envoy George Mitchell, in a further bid to find a solution to an impasse which has prevented suspended peace talks with the Palestinians from restarting. Pa...

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Netanyahu heads to US; Obama parley unconfirmed - Summary
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday left for the United States, but it was unclear whether he would meet with President Barack Obama during his visit. Netanyahu is set to address Jewish community activists in the US and alt...

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Israeli Premier Netanyahu leaves for US; unclear if will meet Obama
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Sunday morning for the United States, but it was unclear whether he would meet there with President Barack Obama. The Israeli leader is set to address Jewish community activists in the US and ...

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Netanyahu, Obama to meet Monday
Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet late Monday with US President Barack Obama, the White House confirmed. Netanyahu is also scheduled to address Jewish community activists in the US. ...

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Netanyahu: If Palestinians take 'unilateral steps', so will Israel
Jerusalem - Israel would answer to any Palestinian step toward an unilateral declaration of independence with one-sided Israeli measures, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted by Israeli media as saying in a forum Sunday in Jerusalem...

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