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Palestinian breakthrough on unity governmentMecca, Saudi Arabia - Rival Palestinian factions have agreed at crunch talks in Mecca on who would hold ministries in an eventual government of national unity, but remained at odds over policy towards Israel. |
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Ehud Olmert Makes Goodwill MovesJerusalem, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed Saturday to release $100 million in frozen funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and ease West Bank travel restrictions goodwill gestures that revived hopes for a resumption of peace talks after years of hostility and distrust. |
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Peace being sown among olive treesKafr Qalil, West Bank, Israel - The day is hot and dusty on this West Bank hillside, but 53-year-old Fuad Amer moves with the energy of a man half his age, stripping the fruit from his olive trees in giant handfuls, plucking others from the high branches with a surgeon's care. |
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Bright Idea: Light Bulb Burns Away TumorsSede Boqer, Israel - Beams of light concentrated from a light bulb could soon help burn away tumors in surgical operations that are as effective as laser surgery but 100 times cheaper, scientists in Israel now report. |
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Last Israeli troops leave Lebanon
Israeli troops complete their withdrawal from Lebanon, more than two months after the war with Hezbollah began.
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Treasures looted by Rome ‘are back in the Holy Land’Jerusalem, Israel - A collection of sacred artefacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist. |
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Family shattered by Holocaust pieces together sibling reunionJerusalem, Israel - Hilda Shlick thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust -- until her Internet-savvy grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada. |
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Olmert ready for talks with Abbas
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Israel's prime minister says he is ready for talks with the Palestinian leader, after talks with UK PM Tony Blair.
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Photo in the News: Transplanted Turtles Hatching in North Israel
Despite ongoing turmoil between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, ecologists are finding time to give endangered sea turtles a boost in the Mediterranean Sea.
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UN ‘to mediate in soldiers row’
The UN says Hezbollah and Israel have accepted its offer to mediate in the dispute over two captured Israeli soldiers.
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news from the Middle East
- Archaeologists Unearth Gold Coins in Jerusalem
- Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fund
- Iraq: UN official welcomes creation of human rights commission
- Electric shock: East coast network by 2012
- Newly-discovered fungus strips pollutants from oil
- Iraq seeks Heritage status for restored marshlands
- Jerusalem ancient walls unveiled
- Iraq, US agree no foreign troops after 2011: PM
- Landmark cooperation deal signed between UN and Iraqi Government
- Roman temple found under church
